N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Best wishes Sir.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 9, 2012

In 2002, legendary training and development expert Jack Zenger (he’s been given numerous international awards and citations) and Joe Folkman (renowned psychometrician with extensive expertise in survey research and leader assessments) published their groundbreaking book The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. how to do something faster, better or cheaper) over procedures; high motivation toward goals, rather than avoiding problems; and high future time orientation with a focus on long term strategies, future customer needs and environmental changes. Decision making style. And much more.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. And the CEO sees enabling a culture of collaborative innovation as key.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

We've all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford's most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. Having grown weary of both sides of the debate, I was curious; did Ford utter those words?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The concept of open innovation has moved from business phrase to business reality over the last ten years. When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

A study by Pearce and Sims (2002), published in Group Dynamics, found that shared leadership is a useful predictor of team effectiveness. Other research suggests shared leadership can also lead to greater team interaction, increased collaboration and coordination, as well as novel and more innovative solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. Might a company have the same DNA for its lifetime, but be able to innovate by expressing that DNA into new business models, organizational designs, and offerings?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. You just need how to appreciate how the tools can improve your decision-making. That's not required.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Employment in high-skill occupations increased between 1977 and 2002, but the paper found that, among the groups studied, all of that growth was in jobs that required both analytic and social skills. But others have studied how technological innovations affect workforce skill requirements. Economy Managing yourself Research'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Technology supporting innovative teachers and school leaders will be the solution for our students. But there was more to the challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

To find an innovative way forward, we looked beyond our own industry because traditional approaches in health care management had not evolved much over the previous decades. To honor Mrs. McClinton’s legacy, we created an annual award that recognizes a team that improves quality and safety through innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Daniel Kahneman, the 2002 Nobel prize laureate and psychologist, has said that if he had a magic wand, he’d eliminate it. We also had to figure out how to measure leadership, a trickier question. As such, our findings are consistent with research showing that overconfident CEOs are better innovators.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 18, 2017

But it had nothing to do with the price of the slice; it was about a customer-suggested idea for how to fund pizza for the homeless. John Ellis, in an article entitled Strategy in the October 2002, issue of Fast Company wrote: “Here’s what real business leaders do. He was even a guest on the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

But HP is no longer a values-driven, family-like, innovation-oriented company that inspires commitment. A technology company without strong internal innovation capabilities is a company on the verge of disappearing. It's a safe bet that resumes are already in play. HP Invent is an empty slogan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. Some of the best thinking on how to meet our goals have come from employees in our mills. Corporate social responsibility Sustainability'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Writing in 2002, the depths of the dot.com bust, she says that business models are “at heart, stories — stories that explain how enterprises work. A new business model may turn on designing a new product for an unmet need or on a process innovation. That is it may be new in either end.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Demand and supply are not growing in tandem: from 2002 to 2012, inpatient days per capita decreased by 12% while the workforce in hospitals grew by 11%. For example, new innovative reimbursement models aim to reward providers for lowering health care costs on the supply side. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. Thinking about how to influence the evolving global rules may seem very far from the daily pressures of managing one's company.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? They don’t know how to cope. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Congress enacted the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate reform legislation, in 2002.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

They are also global leaders in tax avoidance, giving rise to concerns in Europe and elsewhere that their tax planning innovations have reduced government tax revenues. needs a healthy corporate tax system, the next question is how to better design one. There is no doubt that U.S. corporations are global leaders. member states.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection. Thanks for stopping by John.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

economy, according to white paper issued by 2015 Strategic Innovation Summit: Enabling Economies for the Future at Harvard University. Nationally, from 2002 to 2012, just 4 percent of U.S. Entrepreneurs creating gazelles pair fresh ideas with vision and know-how to innovate, launch concepts, and develop a viable business.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

We had convened during the fall recruiting season to discuss how to make the most of Credit Suisse’s pro-LGBT policies in our on-campus-recruiting efforts. As we talked, we began to wonder: Is the case for pro-LGBT employment policy an HR-driven argument alone? We were intent on gathering more quantitative data.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

How can you tell if the product you are working on is likely to succeed or fail? In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. It seems that every major tech company has a plan for how to invade and dominate this space by leveraging their customer data or subscriber relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2018

For their part, black and Latinx workers have together ticked up only slightly since 2002, to 14.7% Louis program LaunchCode is doing, having figured out how to get paid handsomely for the delivery of trained talent to major employers. Women have actually lost share in computer and math occupations, having dwindled to just 25.5%

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

We had convened during the fall recruiting season to discuss how to make the most of Credit Suisse’s pro-LGBT policies in our on-campus-recruiting efforts. As we talked, we began to wonder: Is the case for pro-LGBT employment policy an HR-driven argument alone? We were intent on gathering more quantitative data.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Leaders must have the vision and forward-focus to anticipate how technology could disrupt the business model and the skill to mobilize the organization for change and drive a culture of collaboration. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009.

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