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. impact the competitive arena.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Episode 6 – Developing a Collaborative, Productive Culture examines how leaders can develop a collaborative, productive culture where conflict is used constructively to better the organization’s overall performance. To read Diane’s complete biography, click here.

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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.

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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.

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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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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2012

Conducting a Departed Client Analysis (or Lost Customer Analysis) program entails hiring an independent third party to conduct debrief interviews and solicit constructive feedback from lost customers who have recently fired your firm. He is the author of a book, From a Good Sales Call to a Great Sales Call (McGraw-Hill, 2011).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Then I heard that it grew 429% from September to December 2011. Refuse to use the technology and we end up behind the curve. Use the technology and we risk wasting our time or, worse, embarrassing ourselves. My first reaction was panic. You know how it goes. First I heard about Pinterest. So I raced to have a look.

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Growth has slowed sharply among oil exporters and North African countries affected by the 2011 Arab Spring democracy movements—but the rest of Africa posted accelerating growth at an average annual rate of 4.4%

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. In some cases, we’ve helped form new start-ups; in others, we’ve built technologies that are changing the way we care for patients at Boston Children’s Hospital. Give constructive rejections. Tap an entrepreneurial leader.

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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. These laws in effect correct a creepy response that doesn't go away by itself or through market mechanisms.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. When you get down to brass tacks, all business boils down to people (employees, customers, partners, investors, vendors, etc.), and people mean relationships. By definition, a game changer causes change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle). Cambridge: MIT Press.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

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

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'

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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

APRIL 7, 2011

In a cross-industry survey of 8 firms, we asked over 200 innovation-focused practitioners to review a list of established and emerging technologies (a list that included Apple products, Netflix, eBay and several others) and then tell us why any item on the list eventually became successful.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

The Dubai move is a sequel to the month we spent in Shanghai in 2011. We saw what it's like to have as many hotels under construction as open; to hire 20,000 associates in one year; to watch consumers use smartphones to book same-day hotel rooms. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets.

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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. About 40% of the world lives on $2 or less a day."

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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%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

They’re envisioning well-designed, self-contained environments, tricked-out with the latest high-tech, high-touch technology. The beauty of these vans, and the reason I believe they’ve been dreamt up by managers in very different businesses, is that they perform a wide variety of marketing functions. Customer service Marketing Sales'

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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

JUNE 20, 2018

Disinvestment in schools has also been central to teacher strikes that have occurred since 2011, in Jersey City, Philadelphia, Chicago (twice), Seattle, Portland and Wisconsin. But the failure of elected officials and school boards to recognize a teacher-constructed professionalism is an invitation to endless conflict.

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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. Time moved on, and during the nineties technology overran, and transformed the creative industry like it did most others. That was always a good feeling.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

And in 2011, Nathaniel Foote and Russ Eisenstat proposed a “better way to manage in the 21st century.” For the last six years, we have worked with a group of top marketing executives and business leaders in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area from companies large and small. .”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 31, 2011

used in construction). Marketing can be either inward or outward. Companies undergo marketing campaigns to promote products and services to potential customers. Those same consumers do their own marketing when they shop at grocery stores. Technology is a tool of the trade, not an ideology or a mantra.

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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

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Our 2011 study, "Let's Play Brand," attempts to understand some of the implications of this "meta-game-mentality" for brand builders and marketers. No wonder, then, that the hottest business trend of the moment is the gamification of marketing. There's a clear case for layering this into the marketing interaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

“I think we have a shot at building the best office building in the world” were the words Steve Jobs used to describe Apple’s new headquarters in 2011. The grand vision at the heart of his last project is now being unveiled as Apple finalizes construction on Apple Park. Their business models are fluid.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Since both events unfolded, the media has been awash with stories highlighting the risk, especially to relatively low-skilled jobs, from a new breed of AI-driven technologies. A recently published paper explores some of the political implications of these new technologies, and especially of the rise in workplace automation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Perhaps, but the problem with glory hounds is that they take opportunities away from those who deserve them, muddy the waters for undiscerning consumers, and serve to create unnecessary havoc in a market not in need of such distractions. Personal branding is far more than an ego-play; it is smart business assuming it is done properly.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The centrepiece of the institute is the Qatar Science & Technology Park, which brings together applied research and technology innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship. in 2011), this hides the fact that much of the other half of the economy is heavily reliant on the oil and gas sector for its revenues.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies. My favorite quote from Martin was: “ great brands are emotional bookmarks.&#

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