N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. When it comes to the construction of messaging, I have found that people will tend to fall into one of the four following groups.

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Management Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2011

Management Excellence Updates for January 5, 2011:My latest e-Newsletter with subscriber-only content is out, and I've constructed a new bookstore (without harming any bricks or mortar), featuring my recommendations in leadership & management, strategy, innovation, marketing, history and biography.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Not only is true influence not difficult to acquire, but it is also sustainable when you understand the proper constructs. link] #30Thursday Post Number Nine (Yes it’s fine!) | Musings on Marketing and Other Morsels [.] and, [link]. I hope you find these posts of value as well, and thanks again for stopping by. I Think Not.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

The company promoted 5 internal sales, marketing, and existing staff to be “team leaders” of the new product. All rights reserved. Powered by WordPress. Determine the time span, skills, and values of self & direct reports to ensure exceptional service to the community and stake holders. •

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. The good news is that CEOs without vision will take care of themselves in short order, as they simply won’t survive for long. I Think Not.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 10, 2010

He holds degrees in Theology, Construction and Design, and a Masters in Business Administration. In addition, he speaks and consults on leadership and social media. Why am I introducing him here?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. It is not uncommon to see both vision and mission statements change over time to reflect differences in market conditions.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

If only we could learn the art of dealing with conflict in a collaborative and constructive way, I am sure that organisations would be transformed. As always, I’m interested in your thoughts, experiences and comments… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dr Sarah Morris Oh! Love your articel and the suggestions within it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2011

We all know innovation has its own language conventions, rich with revolutions , evolutions , ecosystems , and more. Innovators, after all, are trying to communicate the promise of something that may not exist yet, and sometimes that requires some optimistic adornment. We wanted to learn more.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve got an established way of looking at the world, which we constructed from our accumulated years of living. During a challenging environment like we’re in now, it’s more important than ever to use “ fresh eyes &# – a term I learned from one of my marketing mentors, Dan Kennedy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Then I heard that it grew 429% from September to December 2011. Susan Mazur-Stommen has a category called "Hacks" in which she collects innovations. My first reaction was panic. You know how it goes. First I heard about Pinterest. And I thought, Oh, my god, the future is preparing to leave without me.again. So I raced to have a look.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

The innovation game is changing. In industries ranging from consumer electronics to construction and from media to mining, the firms seizing the lead are those that can best align ecosystems of offers and partners. The big difference is that the eReader market of 2007 was an open field; the tablet market of 2011 had a dominant giant.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Based on Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) research, we’ve identified four competencies that rising talent needs to master to become global leaders. CTI’s 11-market study (of Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S., Project Credibility.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2012

Marketers want to know intimate facts about individual behaviors, but only so they can fit them into increasingly refined demographic groupings of other individuals with similar behaviors and, they hope, similar interests. The relationship between large-scale customer intelligence data collection and privacy is more complicated than it seems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market. The soaring U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. The weapons being brandished are devilishly constructed patents; the rules of engagement the arcane procedures of federal courts. Innovation Tech industry Technology' In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

His firm grew explosively during the 90s and right up through 2008, constructing offices and high-end homes for the technological elite. But then the market slowed as companies moved their construction overseas and construction jobs disappeared. In a way," he says, "the slower market has been a blessing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Already in 2011 the Chinese spent more time on the Internet than watching TV , while in the U.S. The Chinese government plans to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities by 2025. With such innovation and variety, that can only be a good thing for consumers. This will only continue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. Old efficiency thinking based on engineering and rational market models needs to be replaced by a creative intelligence based on imagining, building and managing new futures.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

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. million in 2011. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” As a result of these decisions, citizenM’s construction costs are 40% lower than other 4-star hotels and staffing is 40% lower too, but occupancy rates (consistently above 95%) are considerably higher.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

Monday, January 17th, 2011 Posted by: mike Is experience enough? We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. All rights reserved.

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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

APRIL 11, 2013

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Towards the end of 2011, he was diagnosed with inoperable esophageal cancer. Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. That was always a good feeling. Not much slipped through the net.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 21, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes There are lots of lessons tied to those canary yellow squares, called Post-it Notes -- how ideas and innovations can come from anyone on your team at any time. How test marketing is critical. How they can be used by leaders to boost morale.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Gerzema and Lebar offer this construct: Sources of Intangible Value. Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists. With more consumers, more "noise" from brand messaging, and more people invested in the stock market, there is greater transparency to these elements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Rather, they trade in outstanding shares in the hope that their market price will increase.

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