N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The Costco experience isn’t what it used to be, US auto manufacturers continue to struggle, the banking industry has been crippled, and government agencies (pick one…USPS, IRS, DMV, etc.) often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

Many people come to me to make a drastic change in their careers. Their tendency has been to jump right back into the same type of career for security purposes only, even if they truly dislike this work. When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Are You in Career Quicksand?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Taking from my own experience, I've been lucky to be successful (measured by quick progression up the career ladder, material comforts etc) and yet I'm still working on being professionally significant. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Successful companies and leaders constantly search for market opportunities/threats and take quick, creative action. With fluctuating markets, proliferating technologies, and changing political frontiers, the challenge is no longer to manage growth. Many companies are still in survival mode after the 2008 recession.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else. I especially liked the comment on balancing when to interject yourself vs. letting others resolve issues on their own.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays? Because there is so little of it around!

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 27, 2010

Fast Friday with Chris von Baeyer of the Ariel Group → Diary of a mid-career job seeker: 9, 800, 20, 10, 5, 2, 3, 1 Posted on May 27, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 1 Comment Fans of LOST will no doubt recognize the significance numbers can play in shaping lives. with a major bank! Skip to content Home Welcome! Bookmark the permalink.

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QAspire

JANUARY 24, 2010

He was a marketing executive with a large pharmaceutical company when he decided to pursue his calling and start a fitness center. He went through a painful process of starting up, getting space on lease and getting some funding from the bank to get some basic equipments. replied the man who was himself a fitness freak.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Starting Your Own Business? Have you ever thought about running your own business?

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 9, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by Chevron, NUMI, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. Organizations can no longer guarantee employment and lifetime careers, even if they want to. Public and private organizations are into a phase of creative disassembly where constant reinvention and adjustments are constant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Steve Jobs , Mark Zuckerberg, and Michael Dell make fine fodder for commencement speeches, but when parents and career counselors thrust graduates into the job market, the default isn't entrepreneurship, it's corporate serfdom. Lots of things, actually.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. The methods presented in the book will help you build a motivated and responsive team within your workgroup.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Interactive Graphic: Is Your Job Market Growing or Shrinking? While the overall US job market still has a long way to go to get back to its pre-financial-crisis levels, it's not all bad. For instance, there's been strong job growth across the board in education and health services since 2008. INDUSTRIAL STENGTH. The Guardian).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Today's garota de Ipanema , however, is more likely to be carving out a career than prowling the playa. When you look at who's coming into the workforce and what they can mean for the development of human capital, it's a no-brainer that women are a competitive advantage," says Valentino Carlotti, president of Goldman Sachs Bank in Brazil.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While the technology supporting sales process have clearly evolved, the traditional sales strategies proffered by sales gurus 20 or 30 years ago have not kept pace with market needs. Those still engaged in defending outdated practices would be better served to listen to the needs of the market than continue in their prideful ways.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

Competitors whispered that Gupta was committing the most un-McKinsey-like of sins: cutting price to get into new markets. As the stock market began to take off, though, and options rained down on corporate execs, the compensation tables began to turn, certainly for the top ranks. And why shouldn't I be? The desire to be an insider.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. So, for instance, in the course of the financial crisis, it was said that banks play in the casino. Risk modeling in the banks grew out of probability theory. Let’s use people for that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

I am now convinced, though, that the entrepreneurial driver behind talent churn in African labor markets actually yields significant net benefits for African economies. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Used digital marketing models to determine what ad to place on what publisher’s site? The great—and scary—example here is the financial crisis of 2008-9, caused largely by invalid models predicting how likely mortgage customers were to repay their loans. Do you have a “next best offer” or product recommendation capability?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s critically important not just for your career, but for your psychological well-being,” he says. After 10 years in the corporate world, she was laid off from a six-figure sales job in 2008, but “I had a baby at home, so I just sort of shifted my focus,” Heather says. Tell people what you’re doing,” says Kramer.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

That's the way financial crises tend to work: Once markets lose confidence, partial solutions — although they sometimes calm markets temporarily — eventually have the disturbing effect of reducing confidence even further, worsening the crisis. In the autumn of 2008, U.S. In fact, it's probably getting farther away.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. Lots of people blamed Greenspan for some or all of this, and the man himself famously allowed, in a Congressional hearing in October 2008, that he had “found a flaw” in his model of how the world works.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

That company was a pioneer in the audio component market, having entered the MP3 market before Apple. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program. With the cautionary notes in mind, I arrived in Singapore in March 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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