N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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CO2

DECEMBER 10, 2010

What drives your economic engine? It asks the leader and their team to determine what is the measurement of their success (Collin’s economic engine). And it grew then some where along the lines the willingness to exploit exceeded the need of the market. What are you passionate about? Your people do not care about that number.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). Great work… [link] davidburkus Good list. I did notice two missing blogs: Positive Organizational Behavior at [link]. I’m not an MBA.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. What was most striking was the attitude of everyone.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Now, back to your point, throw in a class after work and studying for an eight hour professional engineering exam it makes it pretty difficult to exercise and eat healthy. Energy levels are also affected.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Back in the fall of 2009, Cindy, one of our customer service representatives, received a phone call that nearly made her fall off her chair. The Change: Was It Innovation, Serendipity or Providence?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Under CEO Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, they adopted operational efficiency approaches (“ Workout ,” “Six Sigma,” and “Lean”) that reinforced their success and that many companies emulated. In 2009, GE’s transportation unit developed a new sodium battery for a hybrid engine for locomotives.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks David.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For startups, 2009 was a good year. A digital platform, or a digital solution, may enable a new epoch of transformative growth, but when you get under a company’s hood and look to see what’s really driving it, the engine of transformation turns out to be its business model. Yagi Studio/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Rethink product design , choosing fewer and simpler features that better suit the market instead of over-engineering. Or that China surpassed the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs. Jurgen Ziewe/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. We can have engineering work more closely with production. In the summer of 2009 management decided to bring production of a water heater back to the U.S. They saw hourly workers deeply engaged in reviews of operational performance measures, solving complex problems.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Critical contractors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

So just when electric systems need to operate flawlessly — whether to power air conditioners, pump water, or heat homes — long-term challenges to power grids are multiplying. New workers are not entering the market as fast as veterans — particularly engineers — are retiring. In the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day. Have fun with your father in law and congratulations to you and your wife on the upcoming birth.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute. ” [link] lightridr Great post, Mike.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% shares of the global operations of U.S.-based GDP while undertaking 40.9%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

This preserved one of the indicators that have consistently pointed north since the economy emerged from recession in 2009. Many chase market share they'll never get. A lot of companies throw money at the problem — more R&D, more marketing, more sales people. Nor can they rely on macroeconomic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

In 2009, he confessed to developing an ill-conceived plan to market GEICO credit cards and also failed to rein in NetJets' debt, which had soared to $1.9 Gain accounting advantage : Buffett reports on the performance of his operating businesses by grouping them according to similar balance sheet and income statement characteristics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

For many years, beginning in 1942, Premarin was the only hormone replacement therapy drug on the market derived from a natural source. Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. Unlike with patents, it is perfectly legal to reverse engineer and copy a trade secret.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My company, CareerBuilder (which operates the U.S.'s s largest online job site), has found that the country is experiencing the symptoms of a multi-speed labor market. For example, our research shows that the demand for Java developers has grown 72 percent since the fall of 2009.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. Strava engineered social motivation for athletes. They enjoyed the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Growth will benefit operations that design for durability , employ repair technicians, warehouse replacement parts, create service documentation , and build software to facilitate them all. The domestic remanufacturing industry grew by 15% between 2009 and 2011 to "at least $43.0 The market has huge profit potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. Salinas instituted market reforms lauded by Washington, including the North American Free Trade Agreement. Billions poured into the Mexican stock market, bank debt, and government debt. In 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

The partners act almost as a single firm, sharing knowledge about wine making and markets. We are not talking about conquering a new geographical market or investing millions of dollars in joint R&D. Correos, the Spanish postal service operator, uses the same strategy to build partnerships in the e-commerce domain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Refugees face specific issues in entering a new labor market that will require investment in dedicated processes. They may have no social networks to build upon and will be unfamiliar with local labor market norms. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics. Interfacing with the job market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, emerging market countries are getting better at what they do, and even Europe is on the upswing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. In 2009 it was $1.3 stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. In 2012 it was $1.9 But applied to U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

The New Tools of Marketing. And tracking has become steadily more prevalent as marketing’s appetite for “big data” and “personalized” ad messages has grown from hunger to gluttony. In August, Apple disclosed developer support for “Content Blocking” on its new mobile operating system, IOS 9.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

The 300,000 companies in the association’s data set have more than doubled their profits from operations over the past 13 years, outpacing their corporate counterparts in the country. Since its founding our company has achieved growth every year, and only once, in 2009, did we experience a drop in revenue, of one percent.

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