N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

So rather than share my usual content, I want to encourage you to offer condolences to families of all those who lost their lives on 9/11, to our fallen heroes who have lost their lives since that day, and/or to send well wishes to our veterans or active duty service members. Thanks in advance for your participation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Most of the visitors come to see what’s new. Allow your staff to interface with the public. Educate the public about what your company and your industry do. Enhance your company’s image. At a trade show, you might spend $133 to reach a prospect, with.8 Introduce new products.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

What is it? Everyone knows you’re a lousy leader if you can’t make decisions. If you can’t make decisions, you can’t get things done. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Do you have great vision? Are you a master of strategy?

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Did you wash your hair this morning? Did you know big data probably played a role in the viscosity and aroma? Back then, they would run focus groups to see what customers liked/didn''t like about the product and would check competitors that began to do well. But what is it exactly? Product Intelligence: What Is It?

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Steve Farber

JUNE 12, 2017

Johnny Mercer and The Pied Pipers first recorded the song “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive” in 1944, and many stars have covered the tune–Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Paul McCartney, Barry Manilow, and, for you punk fans, The Vindictives, just to name a few. What can you deliver? Where are you mediocre?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone. If you’re among the group of active users who no longer find it confusing, but still haven’t hit your stride, you’re also in good company.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

How unfortunate for her that whatever combination of circumstances and her reaction to them had produced what apparently was a habit of unhappiness. To me, it seems, that's precisely what most people wish for. " If you observe how people behave, they do a lot of what they do in order to make themselves feel happy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Pre-Internet days, if you asked your neighbors who was the company behind your favorite smoke, they'd scratch their heads or just assume the brand name was the company. Marlboro was Marlboro and Camel was Camel. Who knew which came from Philip Morris and which from R.J.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2016

Quit smoking. And, I’ll help you with some proven behavioral tweaks. Why invest time in your positive well being? What’s in it for you? Nurture relationships with those you trust – and repair poor relationships where you can. ” How can you craft meaningful purpose? Lose weight.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2011

What they may not realize, however, is something that research psychologists have known (and kept mostly to themselves) for over two decades: there are two fundamentally different kinds of good. Mismatch, and your message falls flat. So, what kinds of "good" do people want?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

You're going to have a mutiny on your hands," said Jo-Ann, the VP. "I You are so out of touch," Jo-Ann said. Please contribute by offering insights, solutions, and stories from your own experience.). You really don't like all this, do you?" You were a salesman for years, though. Cespedes and Benson P.

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P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Merlo stated that: “We came to the decision that providing health care and selling cigarettes just don’t go together in the same setting.” What he did not say, however, is how that laser-like focus on the company’s strategy also turned reputational risk into an opportunity. And, what aren’t we doing that we should be doing?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

You’ve got an idea for something that will improve your company’s bottom line or make it a better place to work. Now for the hard part: How do you get people on board? How do you get funding? And what should you do if your idea doesn’t catch on? What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Our flagship products are wood-burning stoves that generate electricity from fire while reducing toxic smoke emissions by 90%. Customers have myriad channels to discover new products and shop at outdoor gear retailers to explore, evaluate, and choose what they need. I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. At left, a CampStove.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

He then surprised me by saying, “I’m all for equality, but I’m not sure what good a conference will do.” That’s why Michelle Gielan, best-selling author of Broadcasting Happiness , and I partnered with the Conference for Women to see if we could test the long-term effects of uniting women. Networking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

How much data should you know and record about your customers? What should you do with the information you gather, and how much is too much? We never share or sell the data. We fully expected them to say: "So far so good — now go and finish the other 75% of what we asked." More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

If you run a large organization or its human resources department, you are probably starting to wonder if your financial commitment to wellness programs makes sense. Your consultants and vendors assure you that they save lots of money. So why wouldn't they lie to you? (Of How are cardiac events trending?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

What about cash customers? The technology ecosystem known as the internet of real-time data is moving us toward a better understanding of what these consumers are thinking and doing. Can anything be learned about shoppers who don't carry loyalty cards? Casual browsers? Shoppers who come in as families or as gaggles of teenagers?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2012

Think back to the last backyard picnic you attended and how you stared down your grandmother before you took off like Barry Sanders —how both of you hurdled over picnic tables, through friends and family, to get your hands on that last juicy rib. Its 2:00 a.m.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

” Sharp, you might think, found the smoking gun — a statistic that proves that the Patriots cheated. If the number of visitors to your website jumped after you changed the image on your Facebook page, you conclude that the new photo is the reason for the traffic surge. It says nothing about why.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Quick, before you read another word: go back up your Delicious bookmarks. You know Delicious; it's the social bookmarking service that you should have been using for the past few years. At least, that's what I would have told you before yesterday, when the rumor emerged that Delicious will soon be shut down by Yahoo!,

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Media Competitive Advantage Software Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

We all want it both ways: to get what we want from a tough negotiation and to walk away with our relationship intact. But how exactly do you drive a hard bargain while also employing soft skills? How do you advocate for what you want without burning important bridges? What the Experts Say. Make small talk.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Chris Brady

AUGUST 1, 2010

  Occasionally, though, I could decipher a word or two Terricouldn’t smoke. Thank you for sharing such a cool experience! Looking forward to seeing you back in Mi. Posted by: Kirk & Cassie Birtles | August 01, 2010 at 06:31 PM Chris, What a fine ending to your Italian adventure. We missed you, too.

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Chris Brady

AUGUST 4, 2010

  I shudder to think what an Italianvisitor to the United States might have received in a similar, reversesituation.   Can’t pick it out, you say? Too many such specimens, you say? Ah, thenyou see what I mean.   It is like grabbing at smoke.   It is like grabbing at smoke.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. What beacons of opportunity do we look for?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Chris Brady

MAY 6, 2010

Why did you pull on it like that? Posted by: Andrea G | May 06, 2010 at 09:37 AM Is it really so painful if your hand streches so long? Go and get you some EMV already and quit with the excuses. Posted by: Marianne Ashton | May 06, 2010 at 10:54 AM Stretch Armstrong: What do you mean I can’t be the goalie?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2011

I stepped up to the counter and ordered a bagel with smoked salmon and cream cheese. What's most interesting is what David said when he gave me the bagel. "I I know this isn't what you wanted," he said, smiling sheepishly. But questions ran through my head: If you knew, why didn't you explain it to the chef?

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Organization Learning-by-Doing Objective Goal 15

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 14, 2021

There is a dialogue in the novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway from 1926 where he asks: “How did you go bankrupt? What are some of the major differences between a value chain company, a platform company, and an interaction field company? It is a long-taught fundamental belief, but that does not make it right.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? All one has to do is watch a very bright person defend their position to understand what I’m driving at with today’s post.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

You wouldn’t know it from the first page of their website. If there is one word to explain what Monsanto is about it would have to be farmers. Fast-food restaurant, KFC sells fried chicken. Doesn’t matter; everyone knows what the acronym stands for. Did you like this? Your email address will not be published.

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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., What say you? Am I right in this assumption?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and e-mail address.). And Jay’s track record in Maryland drew investors, who were eager to see their money double or triple in a few years, when (they assumed) he would sell the bank.

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Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

What's the big deal? He cries (at about 3:20, if you haven't seen it yet). In 1972, when Senator Muskie was a democratic presidential candidate, a New Hampshire newspaper "accused Mr. Muskie's wife, Jane, of smoking, drinking and cursing in an 'unladylike' way." What do tears mean for us ordinary mortals?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If you’d like your organization to take better advantage of presales and reap the advantages that result, here’s how to do so—at each stage of the sales journey: Identifying Leads. This had the dual benefit of increasing sales with individual customers and providing training for the full-time store salespeople.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I'm going to show you what I mean about the value of the 18-to-49 demographic.". Please contribute by offering insights, solutions, and stories from your own experience.). All your new, high-tech metrics that show you which TV shows work well for selling which products — that's all fine and good," Donny said. "All

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. ” It is concerned with examining the media and its coverage, identifying its root causes, and understanding what we should expect going forward. Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

After Tuesday night's bar fight of a presidential debate , I have a few questions for the major American political parties: How referable are your candidates for president? Can their followers even really say what their core ideas are? Can their followers even really say what their core ideas are? How inspiring are their ideas?

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