N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. Immediate Survey response average was 4.88 (out of 5).

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Self-aware 265

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2022

In Oxford’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey’s hugely influential 2013 paper looking at the likelihood of automation for various professions, truck driving was one of the professions that were projected to be automated in double-quick time. Department of Commerce, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S.

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Osborne Transportation Operations Hedge 75

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. A full investigation and survey of employee wants and needs should yield some recurring issues that can likely be resolved by employee empowerment. Creating compelling products comes back to the people.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2013

Despite a continuing tough job market, a majority of employees claim to be getting approaches from other companies,” said Monika Morrow, Senior Vice President of Career Management at Right Management. Well being translates directly into higher performance and productivity.

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Productivity Products Flextime Bottom-up 106

CEO Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

But 2013 we still have 1 in 9. Pink did a 7,000 person survey asking. Pink did give a marketing example. Clearly specific and personal asks work in marketing. In 2000, 1 in 9 people worked in sales. 13 years later - social media, smart phones, cloud computing, tablets etc. So why would this be?

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Letter Disintermediation Innovation Meyer 124

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

It begins by attempting to put to bed the various doomsday predictions that robots and other AI-driven technologies are going to lay waste to vast swathes of the labor market any time soon, whilst at the same time accepting that changes are inevitably afoot that need responding to, both from an individual and collective perspective.

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Technology Report Productivity Products 47

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Through a study of AI that included a survey of 3,073 executives and 160 case studies across 14 sectors and 10 countries, and through a separate digital research program , we have identified 10 key insights CEOs need to know to embark on a successful AI journey. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

Baker says that, "Many people conceive of their business dealings as spot market exchanges--value given for value received, period. Sources: The New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2013 and www.LawofReciprocity.com. The law of reciprocity is not what can best be described as "transactional reciprocity." Nothing more, nothing less.

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Social Capital Cialdini Mentor Incentives 139

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Your upcoming leaders will need to understand how to do business internationally – international laws and regulations for doing business in various countries, cultural differences, the ability to gauge the market overseas including identifying market for product or services and the competition, developing overseas offices, leading virtually, etc.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward. All rights reserved.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

For senior marketers, it is a very humbling thought. What if your ideas, your thoughts and even your experience as a trained marketing professional didn''t amount to a hill of beans in terms of the brand''s actual advertising performance? What if, in short, what your company really needs is not a marketer, but a data scientist ?

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Marketing Advertising Chief Information Officer Technology 13

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. As we spoke to them, Mansfield and his team shared five insights on how to work with senior management to get strategy-stretching innovations to market: 1.

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Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. At worst, they misjudge or simply stay out of markets vastly different from their own.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

My own firm released a survey recently of 835 large companies (with an average revenue of $20 billion) that predicts a net job loss of between 4% and 7% in key business functions by the year 2020 due to AI. In stark contrast, very few of the companies we surveyed were using AI to eliminate jobs altogether. bribes and kickbacks).

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Company Survey Finance Engineering 12

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. million responses to their Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) survey. She spoke at my Extreme Leadership Summit in 2013, and I became a fan for life.

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Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 61

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

Marketing 8

Marketing GDP Automotive Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. But a few years ago, delays in signing new hires were impairing its expansion; in 2013, the average time to hire was 100 days. 1 form of self-expression.” ” The “What’s the Matter with Owen?

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Marketing Strategy Hammer Media 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

. “If consumers cared about moral issues,” the argument goes, “then companies and brands that did the right thing would have a larger market share. ” I understand the attraction to markets and their efficiency; I am a marketing professor. billion in the US alone in 2013 according to Charity Navigator).

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Ethics Marketing Brand Morale 8

Steve Farber

MAY 24, 2017

It seems like everyone wants to be known as a thought leader, but there are no real criteria for who can stick that label on their marketing materials. million responses to their Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) survey. She spoke at my Extreme Leadership Summit in 2013, and I became a fan for life.

Rogers 40

Rogers PR Open-book Core Competence 40

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Yet, unlike money, the market for personal data is relatively embryonic. A 2014 global survey by SafeNet found that nearly two-thirds of consumers said they would stop or avoid using a company that had experienced a data breach. In financial markets, customers generally know how much money they have and can control how it is invested.

Telecommunications 8

Telecommunications Cost-Benefit Analysis Reputation Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Spurred by an aging population, increases in chronic disease, and technological breakthroughs, the electronic medical device market is poised to reach an estimated $398 billion in 2017. For example, in 2013, the average age of an MRI scanner in the U.S. The aforementioned HIMSS survey found that only 56.3% acute and 35.5%

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System CIO Health Care Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2012

Yes, Lin will boost ticket sales for the Rockets, but his marketing impact may not be as great as one would think. Last year, they alone drove 38% of the market share of league revenue last year — due in no small part to Lin. Oracle recently surveyed 333 executives across 11 industries to gauge the growth of Big Data.

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Merchandising Survey Industry Marketing 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Writing in the Sloan Management Review, Boston College professor Gerald Kane noted that 87% of executives surveyed indicated that digital technologies will disrupt their industries to a great or moderate extent. Microsoft was able to do so largely due to its monopolization of the desktop operating system market. Minimize Pain.

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Strategy B2B Insurance Business Model 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Back in 2013, a much-touted survey suggested that by 2020 — just over a year from now — a whopping 40% of the workforce would be so-called contingent workers, a number that would include contractors, temps and the self-employed. 3: Gig is better.

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Quinn Entrepreneur IPO Survey 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Half or more of those surveyed believed that European innovators were good, even world class, and that they had good business and technological skills. Most survey participants believed that government and financial institutions gave relatively little support to innovation. Well, it’s not about the people.

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Globalization Survey GDP Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. ” Of course, this theory predicts that skill requirements should fall when the labor market tightens.

Education 10

Education Skills Marketing Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

In 2010, the Seilers surveyed all officers and social services staff. Whether through survey responses or calculations of need, pulling frontline data helped all sites own their challenge. “You can’t claim impact if you only see a kid or family for five minutes once a month,” observed Carol Seiler.

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Microfinance Strategic Planning Finance Globalization 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Media Automotive Globalization Active Listening 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In order to answer this question, I recently conducted an extensive 42-part survey with 786 sales professionals. The survey responses were then grouped into high-performing, average, and underperforming categories according to these revenue classifications. Sales & Marketing Sales'

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Team Participative Survey Informal Structure 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

market growing. According to the most recent Congressional Budget Office projections , the current proposed fiscal measures, if implemented, would automatically slash the federal budget deficit by $503 billion between FY 2012 and FY 2013. But they can also invest heavily in China's domestic markets. They want to see the U.S.

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GDP Class Budgeting Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Automation anxiety reached new heights in 2013, when Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. So it still pays to be good at math in today’s labor market, but it’s often no longer enough. Deming studied changes in work tasks using data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a survey conducted by the U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. Companies are beginning to expand beyond their home markets and into other states. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Industry Retail Banking Brand 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

In addition, brands that are perceived as being simple in their “products, services, interactions, and communications” outperformed indices on the stock market by as much as 100%. A look at the 2013 rebranding of the nonprofit Rotary can supply some clues. So how can a brand achieve this form of simplicity?

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Brand Survey Globalization Short-term 11