N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. This in turn leads to a very focused, coordinated, and ultimately a very passionate work environment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There are just too many factors beyond your control that will shape your job options--global economic trends, political elections, and technological changes, just to name a few. But this sort of event-driven networking pales in comparison with the deep bonds you can develop with your colleagues by working, conversing, and traveling with them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

Every process that is created, every system installed, every technology that is used, every structure that is designed, every job title that is given will reinforce or dilute the culture. Lack of trust or questions about what behavioral standards will be used will create political and fear-based environments. It takes work to execute.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. Having lost out on Africa’s recent growth boom, the economy nearly halved in size from U.S.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

Based on four years of global quantitative research, the book explores the tectonic shifts in consumer sentiment that have come about due to extreme technological immersion. This lack of trust extends into the world of technology, as well. In other words, we want the unfiltered, plain, raw, and unedited truth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

Good reporting takes time and relationships, so it can’t be effectively automated — though it can be empowered by digital technology. You achieve excellence not through James Bond–style gadgetry but through relentlessly executing on your fundamental skills. Insight Center. It was your job to help.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

While we can thank technology and increasingly flexible office policies for the shift away from the office, for many companies, mobility has simply been an unintended consequence of trying to keep pace with change, as well as a calculable means to rein in real estate costs. By 2015, 1.3 billion people worldwide will be working remotely.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. But what about younger people just entering a traditional office environment? There's a new lonely crowd in the workplace. Is there an upside?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But social technologies open new channels that permit snooping on an unprecedented scale. Leaks are nothing new; companies have been eavesdropping on each other forever.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

The SEALs leadership recognized that technical excellence—better shooting and better shots—didn’t go nearly far enough in addressing the complex environments and demands that would be made upon sniper teams in wartime deployments in multiple theaters. The post-9/11 environment demanded it. They are self-motivators.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

All too often, new ideas are cooked up in a hothouse environment, like the executive inner sanctum or an invitation-only innovation offsite, and not shared widely until they've been sanctioned from on high. That's exactly the kind of environment Jim Lavoie worked in for 30 years.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Here’s the bottom line: How can you possibly justify not communicating with your key constituents, stakeholders, and influencers in an environment of their choosing, where they are actively having conversations in real time? In the post-recession, post-mass media environment, it's all in play. News Flash: you can’t.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Executives say that they lose 40% of their strategy’s potential value to breakdowns in execution. It also helps bridge the chasms that exists at so many companies between great strategy, great execution, and great performance. Take Dell Technologies, for example. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

” When you’re at their location, make an effort to “understand their environment and get a sense of what it’s like” to work from afar. ” When it’s not possible (or preferable) to have a camera that’s always on, Ferrazzi recommends regular use of technologies like Skype and WebEx.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Strategy: Understanding the Dynamics of the 2024 Talent Landscape The future of executive recruitment is rapidly evolving, shaped by multiple strategic drivers, including digital transformation and significant societal shifts. Indeed, it’s not just about recruitment alone.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

Similar to the branches and roots of the banyan, they flourish by surrounding themselves with like-spirited colleagues, bonding around the core. They may not be the showiest plants, but they leave the environment a better place. Like the banyan, many well-regarded leaders get their start by capitalizing on a nascent opportunity.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In addition, when we work in complex adaptive environments (like an organization), then we have to be able to leverage each and every tool at our disposal in varying degrees to accomplish the objective. Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

A key point: in a world that will spend $90 trillion on infrastructure over the next 15 years anyway, the additional costs to shift that build-out to a low-carbon path, with technologies we already have, will be minimal. And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. utility sector.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

While executives of American exporters cite the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as an agreement that will be of enormous benefit to American workers, for politicians, it is another third-rail issue that few wish to support. .” A big reason is technological complexity. In this U.S.

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