N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. My mind is racing around between what I've been a part of over the last two years in social media and the participants in the story.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

As a junior researcher, I had the unenviable task of collecting saliva samples from dozens of participants. First, you can have a “time-out” like in sport – in other words, a pause to make sense of what you’ve done, see what it’s adding up to and what needs to change going forward. And we identify two forms of levitation.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. That goes for business and sports. Cook said, W e’re on the face of the earth to make great products. We’re constantly focusing on innovating.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight. We couldn’t take all participants swimming in deep water because of the risk, but we could put them in waist­ deep and have them carry logs or go through “surf torture” (sitting at water’s edge with their arms interlocked).

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

We have technology to potentially alleviate the time pressure, yet that same technology can also be part of the problem. The latest, greatest powerful technologies have contributed to our feeling increasingly powerless.” The latest, greatest powerful technologies have contributed to our feeling increasingly powerless.”

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. That goes for business and sports. Cook said, W e’re on the face of the earth to make great products. But they sure as hell act like they do.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? Those with a closed mind either dont participate in coaching or fall by the wayside early in the day. Probably the same as mine - not so good.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It can be the technology that scales good deeds to the global level. The rate of committing acts of good is only bound by the speed of technology. Twitter connects 200 million participants 24/7 on an open network that enables instantaneous delivery and nearly instantaneous redistribution. It's a truly open market of ideas.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

That’s because the “loyalty era” of marketing, as we’ve known it, is waning. market alone, companies are losing $1 trillion in annual revenues to their competitors because they are not consistently relevant enough. In fact, consumer research we’ve worked on at Accenture shows that in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. He builds largely upon the work of MIT economist David Autor, who’s studied the effects of technological change on the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

For example, in the ‘70s, IBM was convinced that the real profits in the personal-computer (PC) market would come from the manufacture of hardware. Taking the same set of facts available to IBM, he constructed a vastly different narrative anticipating that technological advances would continuously drive down the cost of hardware.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Using two National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) surveys, it looked at senior year math scores on standardized tests, questions about extracurricular participation and leadership roles, and individual earnings seven years after graduating high school. And it corroborated the findings with Census and CPS data.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

They’re naturals with technology and can simultaneously use their phone to order a cup of coffee at Starbucks, Instagram a photo of their name spelled incorrectly on the coffee cup, reply to a friend via text, and talk to their co-worker about the company softball tournament. We believe the findings apply to marketing of all types.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

Bat is sports equipment in baseball. Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Those same consumers do their own marketing when they shop at grocery stores. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the “mother speed” of 78-RPM. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Participated In It. Ideas make the future happen. Saw It Happen… Understand It.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Participated In It. Ideas make the future happen. Saw It Happen… Understand It.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

And those who move to harness that collective voice have an opportunity to storm many traditional vertical markets. It's already happening at scale in one of the most centralized industries in the world — sports broadcasting. Without barriers like FCC licensing, studios, and broadcast towers, any sport (curling?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

We see rivalries in sports, business, school, and basically any arena where there is competition. Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. Participants were told that they would be competing against another participant on a decision-making task that mimicked Blackjack.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2011

Cisco's councils and boards — a language that already suggests committees rather than goal-oriented projects — were supposed to speed things up and stimulate more innovation by creating cross-functional groups that could generate ideas about market-facing, solutions-oriented projects and organize across the organization to get them done.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport. Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

The scalping market exists for three primary reasons. First, sports teams and rock stars often keep prices low as sign of appreciation to their fans, and to generate positive brand equity. Finally, it's challenging to price so many tickets, particularly for sports teams with long seasons.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Location-aware technologies will force a greater degree of engagement on a format that had historically been passive, impersonalized and certainly without any extensions. But what are the implications of this for marketers today? Being ready for digital participation in real-time becomes the new imperative for marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Researchers found that participants' estimates were consistently off the mark, and off the mark in the same way: They underestimated. The mean of participants' self-reported value was 6.8 It grows out of insights in fields like high-performance sports science, cognitive science, and health care. It's an emerging trend.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

The design of the study was simple – the researchers took one group of participants, randomly paired people up, and instructed them to get to know each other by asking probing questions. After ten minutes of such interaction, the participants were given a battery of cognitive tests.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

In a previous post , I outlined the key capabilities I've found to be present in the social ventures that are able to reach sizeable impact (which can be remembered with the acronym SCALERS—they are Staffing, Communicating, Alliance-Building, Lobbying, Earnings-Generation, Replicating, and Stimulating Market Forces).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

Consider the market for smartphones. Their technology and products lag Apple and the Android ecosystem. Microsoft has gotten excellent reviews for the technology in its new phones, but it is the ability to create a successful platform that will determine its ultimate success. Nike is also shifting from products to platforms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

It sports the near field communication chips I've been dying for ( read: secure mobile payments, instant device to device information transfer ). Once you have an idea of what the jobs are in the arena you're vying to complete in, identify all the industry participants who currently help do that job for customers. Who distributes?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Competition today punishes companies that make episodic improvements in key processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

When it comes to technological development for safer guns, it is a task assigned to the Departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security — not to the U.S. Step one is for manufacturers to adopt the role of steward for the entire gun marketing system, all the way to the buyer. I see at least three steps to take.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

This includes information that we choose to publish ("I'm a small business owner in Florida."), information that others publish about us ("Sarah is a great team player."), and information that is aggregated and shared behind the scenes without our knowledge ("Jonathan spends 400 minutes on sports websites and $300 on specialty foods per month.").

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." They're also the ones who can connect your creativity circles to the financial, prototyping, marketing they need. Creative competence is like a sport. But it is obsolete.

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