N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The truth is that great companies are those which can thrive and prosper in the absence of sophistication.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. Years ago, I worked on Pillsbury’s Refrigerated Fresh Dough advertising as a Leo Burnett Account Executive. Maurois was alluding to the notion that those engaged in war, hate the enemy.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

If you don’t have a big advertising budget, and even if you do, social media provides a significant opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations and interactions with your customers that broadcast media simply cannot produce.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Case in point, Jay Patel, CEO of Wintergreen Hospitality in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. In fact, according to the global staffing agency Ranstad, “many workers are seeking project or consultant-based work, with as much as 61 percent of the workforce choosing agile* careers by 2019” Greater use of Big Data in HR.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Purdue is known for its bright engineers, top flight technology students, it is the alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon. Yet, the question as I talked with women in the Purdue leadership program is still the age old one of how to balance it all; career, family, community, and time for oneself.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9%

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Think about the marketing and advertising campaigns that get your attention, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the cars you drive, the cell phone you carry, or any number of other decisions you make and you’ll find that design plays a key role in your decisioning…Design Matters!

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2021

The subscription-based software draws upon hundreds of millions of human judgment to recommend applicant matches and automatically advertise to individual candidates along with a network of 180 partners including Google, Facebook, Indeed and LinkedIn. There are two more tiers available ( Starter and Pro ) on the platform. Founded 2011.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

As the CEO you have final say, but your employees can provide thoughts that you may have overlooked, which can actually add to your business plans. They will feel like you value their input, and take it into consideration when making decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2012

billion , entrepreneurial companies with technology at their core have disrupted entire industries and threatened or eliminated incumbents. A 2011 IBM study of over 3,000 CIOs revealed that CIO-CEO alignment is stronger than ever, with traditional companies aggressively investing in technology innovation.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

Yet while all physical assets had turned to cinders, founder and CEO Jerri Rosen was devastated but determined. “We Within hours of the fire, the CEO of Goodwill of Orange County donated space in their warehouse and donations. She opened her own marketing and advertising business and more. Turn the page.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

I recently asked him about how demands on executives — and CEOs in particular — have changed over the years, and how today’s leaders can best navigate their busy days. But there are slightly different issues CEOs and the C-suite are facing, right? There are two classic errors CEOs make. Which leaves them with a lot to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

What Was Once There Resigned: The Fast Fall of a Washington Career The Washington Post Their faces are plastered on TV sets and web pages in brief moments of public outrage; but what happens to the people forced out of their jobs by scandal, particularly if their resignations were more symbolic than indicative of any leadership failure?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The official name for the technology is "additive manufacturing," and it will change the way the world thinks about making stuff, Magnus says, because it allows companies to produce locally and respond quickly to changes in demand. Terry Marks, the new CEO of Hooters, is undertaking a makeover of the ultimate guys’ place.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

A few months ago at Davos, CEOs complained about the brain drain affecting their companies. In an opinion piece , Deloitte CEO Barry Salzberg says that millennials are increasingly thinking of finance, consulting, and corporate jobs as a "a tragedy of wasted minds." Where are all these people going? We''ve noticed two main trends.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Last week, Mathew Creamer of Advertising Age said Linds Redding’s ‘Short Lesson in Perspective’ was the best piece of advertising writing you’ll ever read. Turns out that Linds Redding, an illustrator and designer, spent most of his career crafting advertising in the UK and New Zealand, before opening an animation studio.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel. Others believe that leaders are born, not made.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2013

That is very bad news for their businesses and, not incidentally, for their own careers. Nearly half (49 percent) of CIOs say marketing pulls in technologies without consideration for IT standards. But the IT department must also maintain strict privacy and security of data and technology, as well as follow internal protocols.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Because scientists get personal (and possibly career) value from it and so you can pay them less. At least for the economic part of the group, there was a clear focus — for the most part what they now focused on was advertising. Advertising was responsible for most of Yahoo's revenues and this is an area the company leads in.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

This approach wouldn’t fly in advertising or marketing, where segmenting target audiences by demographic underlies every message we read, hear or see in media. Research in The Talent Equation , a new book co-authored by CareerBuilder CEO Matt Ferguson, confirms this. Setting up technological barriers for job seekers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

” It’s important to talk openly about how career paths can diverge. “Say something like, ‘The career move you’re talking about is not the one I see for you. “When employees feel antsy, it’s often because they do not understand the career path they are on.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Knack’s CEO and founder, Guy Halfteck, assured me that this wouldn’t be the case. “In As for risk, in my career I have worked for four large and stable media companies (stable when I worked there at least, except for my last few years at Time Inc.) Hiring Information & technology Job search' As a result I’m no good at gaming.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Over the years, especially with the development of internet technology, competition has grown tougher in most industries. This is evident in a survey commissioned by 4As where it’s revealed that only 4% of Americans think advertisers and marketers practice integrity. Additionally, 87.2%

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. So, to achieve higher performance, should company boards and investors choose CEOs with the expertise that would better qualify them to lead innovation?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As the new CEO of Google, he has been handed the keys to one of the world’s most valuable brands , the top website to open to get to other websites , the most popular operating system for smartphones , and the most desirable employer for engineering or business graduates. And third, his belief that technology is an equalizing force.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. Some pharmaceutical scientists will spend an entire career working on drug development without a single one of their products reaching the market. But innovation is an elusive beast. Tolerance of Failure.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. How CEOs Can Fix Capitalism. by Thomas H. Davenport and Jinho Kim. Welcome to the age of data.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. My positioning shtick is my background as a former CEO of a Fortune 500 company. I suppose this is partially as a technology executive, I think in startups and technology. Hey John, Best of luck with your writing career! Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding the Aspiring Novelist. About John.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I thought perhaps I was misunderstanding what was being said, so I decided to Google the phrase “Culture Trumps Strategy&# and found that Stanford offered an Entrepreneurship Lecture by this title, I found several CEOs using the phrase in speeches, press releases, etc., As a non-advidsor to CEOs there is much I am learning from you!

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