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Millennials Have Missed Out On The Post-2008 Housing Boom

The Horizons Tracker

Access to the property market remains out of reach for many young people, as even as prices fell marginally after the Great Recession, they remained far higher than the available incomes of the time. Indeed, the robustness of the housing market is a clear differentiator between the Great Recession of 2008 and the Covid-19 recession.

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How to Stand Out in a Saturated Market: The Benefits of Niching Down

Strategy Driven

They’ve identified and fitted into the needs of a smaller market segment that remains closely connected, and they’re well-known throughout that segment. There’s less competition in this realm because many of the big players just don’t want to enter smaller markets. In 2008, Betsy Babcock founded Handsome Brook Farm Pasture Raised Eggs.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.

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Three practices of successful product managers

Lead on Purpose

They focus on this marketing campaign or that new technology, and lose track of what’s most important. In most companies product managers have a lot of products and significant responsibilities. A company’s success is ultimately a roll-up of all products and services selling for a profit.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Manager&# is an interesting title. An account manager is different from a store manager. Even within the title of “store manager&# the scope and breadth of responsibility varies widely. The manager of a 7-Eleven has significantly different responsibilities than the manager of a Costco store.

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Remote Work Revolution: Mastering the Challenges and Opportunities in 2024

N2Growth Blog

I was fortunate to work in corporate recruiting for a global technology company in 2008 when the idea of a remote workforce was embraced. My role changed from hiring entry-level roles in the local market to hiring professional and executive-level roles virtually across the country.

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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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