N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

From my perspective, the issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed-up in three words…&# Deal With It. &# While you can try and avoid conflict (bad idea), you cannot escape conflict…The fact of the matter is that conflict in the workplace is unavoidable.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When the marketplace began to see through the spin and the vapor, all the fun and games in the world couldn’t save a flawed business model…The fun was over and the culture ceased to exist. Many a company has put so much emphasis on culture that culture simply became their business as opposed to strengthening their business.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

While individual leadership approaches will be as different as night and day, and some will clearly be more effective than others, there is something to be learned from them all…There are leaders that we look up to by virtue of their street-smarts, wisdom, and experience; or by virtue of their expertise and contribution to a given field.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Over the course of my career, I have seen the business world transform and certain powerhouses, think Amazon, Apple, and Uber, redefine the business model to capture incredible value. My research led me to develop the six-step process that allows companies to outsize: (Copyright Steve Coughran, Used by Permission).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? link] Scot Herrick Best practices excuse management of really understanding their business and strategy. But manufacturing?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

workforce — and companies will increasingly grapple with how to accelerate the development of those individuals for leadership positions. The study examined the management and development preferences of America’s young and rising corporate leaders. What might business models of the future look like?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. He has spoken at five Economic Summits.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

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. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

In most cases we’ve studied at Innovation Leader, an online resource for people responsible for innovation and R&D, there’s a surplus of good ideas for new products, services and business models. The problems arise when projects need to be transferred to the business units for a large-scale launch.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

From our research on leading businesses and corporate foundations worldwide for Do More Than Give: The Six Practices of Donors Who Change the World , we've learned that companies can leverage their know-how, their social and business networks, and even their core business models to make a bigger difference.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

We believed that if the Library was to be truly nimble, senior leaders couldn’t unilaterally come up with a plan. The conversation would be neither bottom-up nor top down. Their expectation was to spend about a day a week for the next six months on the identification, design, and testing of a business model innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

million-strong army of advocates for this principled approach to business in its "consultoras" (direct sales agents). Both entries offer up powerfully practical pathways for leaders at all levels to play a part in advancing progress for all. Inside-Out Transformation: A Hybrid Business Model for a Converging World.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

So in this article, I’ll walk through how we applied this approach to a particular product at a start-up, and how it led to large-scale adoption and, ultimately, the acquisition of the company. We build groups of notes in a bottom-up fashion, identifying similarities and anomalies. Over time, the room begins to take shape.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. Finally, platform launches represent a new business that is ready to be scaled up. They may be generating revenue but usually not yet a lot of bottom line. These have relatively lower uncertainty than an option.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being.

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