N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. They are planning to be “fast followers” — a strategy that has worked with most information technologies. Even more recent technologies like deep learning are based on research that took place in the 1980s.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2014

But the real power of the partnership comes from their ability to bring the best of each of their departments—as well as pricing, operations, and other groups—to bear in exploiting those micromarket opportunities. Create a technology engine that powers the front lines. Caesars has taken that point of view to heart.

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Marketing Guidelines B2C Analysis 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After assuming office, for example, Mnangagwa successfully negotiated with the African Export and Import Bank to provide support for importers, as well as US$ 300 million in new guarantees to allow the central bank to increase printing of “bond notes” – a substitute currency that locally has the same value as the U.S.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Build bonds to strengthen trust. How could I refuse? My family was against it and it was risky.

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Politics Chief Information Officer Tourism Environment 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. We called this bonding “tent time.” I tried to give my team in Ukraine this perspective.

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Crisis Management Contingency Plans Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2017

In his new book, The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World , veteran Bloomberg technology writer Brad Stone unravels the facts from the mythology surrounding the companies’ rise. Uber was up against taxi companies, which are skilled at lobbying local governments.

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CEO Hotels Venture Capitalist Storytelling 8

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. What skills should leaders be developing to market this way?

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Brand Storytelling Trends Content 113

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. Crassly put, leaders and managers get knowledge and education while training and skills go to those who do the work. ” Should training overwhelmingly focus on skills enhancement? The SEALS can’t afford it.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Yet scaling is also a problem of less.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 7, 2024

And very important to me: he emphasizes the importance of not just adopting new technologies, but also valuing and empowering people within these digital spaces. “The Metaverse is all about promoting virtual collaboration, making sure there are plenty of opportunities for the team to bond and feel part of the community.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

The raw wafer for an iPhone chip might have been processed in Texas before it was shipped to a factory in Taiwan to be diced into individual chips and tested, then wire bonded into a package before going to a parts distribution center, before finally making it to that assembly line in Zhengzhou, China. bound panels to Malaysia.

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Supply Chain Globalization Cost Efficiency 8