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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. link] robpetersen Mike, Great advice and a great foundation piece on social media. Great thoughts Allan and thanks for stopping by.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

Porter then used the tools of microeconomics to craft advice for executives on how to get and hold on to that power. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice. But it turned out that slight changes in the initial conditions in a model might deliver wildly different advice. Since when?

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

This idea has led to regulation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), as well as requirements by the NYSE and NASDAQ that boards have a majority of independent directors and that members on the audit committee have financial expertise. ” However, GE’s annual revenues last year were $117 billion, and it had over 300,000 employees.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I was sitting there 18-and-a-half years, getting an extraordinary amount of advice from everybody under the sun.

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The Problem With Coaching | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Maybe I’m old school, but attempting to provide advice and counsel to a client without having the experience of walking in their shoes is a recipe for disaster. The best coaches I know are capable of delivering a blend of personal and professional advice.

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