N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

It also means that an entire culture must understand how to Go Slow to Go Fast to eliminate tension from the valuable techniques used to identify ways of operating with greater success in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. Design the campaign plan with compressed timeframes (Parallel Operations).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

How do your organization’s strategic and operational goals inform what work roles will be needed in the future? What is the historic attrition and turnover rate and how do these map to the skills that keep you competitive? What are your employees’ retirement plans? Who will do this work?

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How To Tacit Knowledge Intellectual Capital Newsletter 72

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2015

We can look at the way our own companies operate and make inferences about how our products are perceived. Call this “alignment-attrition” – as the time window between our interactions increases, our alignment decreases. This dynamic operates differently in different kinds of organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

They pursued a variety of tactics before the recession that were designed to fortify the firm when the downturn hit – moves both within sales and beyond like adding a low-cost channel to serve small accounts or simplifying the product assortment. Commercial operations groups tend to be early targets for cuts in a recession.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The real-time feedback means we will learn very rapidly how communications or engagement tactics have been received, thus optimizing our actions in days rather than weeks, as might be the case with traditional approaches. This is giving us the opportunity to experiment with different change strategies within chosen populations in the company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

Because sales reps are more directly networked with their colleagues through technology, they more easily aggregate skills, knowledge, and experience to uncover new opportunities and to debate tactics for generating business. Record growth and profitability, increased rep engagement, and near-zero attrition. The results?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2017

As in many fast-paced companies today, consulting staff operate without formal job descriptions or handbooks. Female promotion rates have increased nationwide across all cohorts, with a 22-percentage-point rise among senior managers, while the attrition of senior women has slowed by five percentage points.

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