N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. I find everything, in my realm on marketing, I get the best advise and insight from Christ. I'm sure your thoughts are echoed by many and that Pete will be most appreciative. Thanks for stopping by Jennifer. Scott Gould Right with you Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 28, 2011

If there’s one thing that many of us share as a common goal or objective it’s to be successful in our endeavours, whether it’s being successful in our career, helping to build a successful organization, or being successful in our efforts to raise happy and fulfilled children.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. It sounds like a supportive, mature environment you are describing; where ego isn't the main thing but doing the right thing is. That's consensus."

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2013

Soda, or Carbonated Soft Drinks (CSD), is dominated by huge multinationals like Coca Cola — only the most recognized consumer brand in the world. Their distribution systems make CSD items available in virtually every retail format, in every country in the world, and have cost efficiencies that emerging brands cannot achieve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Companies spend a lot of time and money building strong brands to win over customers—but they often fall short when it comes to strengthening their employer reputation to win talent. Our participants were responsible for employer branding efforts in their companies. Delivering on your promises.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In It’s the thing that happens to get the product to market” Mitch Joel @mitchjoel / Author and marketing guru / In a nutshell: It’s time for Leadership 3.0… adweekcdn #genesimmons 12 hours ago Every brand has to work hard to stay relevant.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. Summon “the mental discipline to think, ‘If I were really brand-new here, what would I be doing?’”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I’ve been a consultant for over 20 years now, focused on helping international clients in areas of business and market strategy, positioning and market launches. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Career advancement in mature companies usually demands avoiding conspicuous failures, while entrepreneurs must fail repeatedly to get ahead. As a free-standing enterprise operating under its own brand, FirstBuild is decidedly not another attempt to transform a traditional company’s corporate culture. Separation is the key.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Likewise, online resources make it easier for your employees to compare what they currently get in terms of compensation, career development opportunities, and work environment with what is on offer elsewhere. To take a line from the X Files, “ the future is out there.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? So my question is this: Are you easy to help?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

” Despite positive market indicators and careful planning, international-entry initiatives often fall short. High-profile brands whose global expansions missed their marks include Snapple, Kellogg’s, and Walmart, among many others.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Nowadays, almost every company claims to be innovative, if only to attract top talent, please investors, and strengthen its brand. Is the innovation effort only inducing fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the market, or is the company really walking the talk? Not understanding the difference could derail your career.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? The message is not about the messenger; it has nothing to do with messenger; it is however 100% about meeting the needs and the expectations of those you’re communicating with.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. My analysis: The stock market looks primarily at profits…one small part (1%) of the business picture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

It's a pleasure to be here" establishes you as both confident and mature. Age and status cease to have a corner on the market. To get left behind is to risk branding yourself as a dinosaur, and a less powerful/authoritative one at that. When, as a young person, you address someone as Mr. or Ms., I'm Jodi Glickman.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The answer is often no—particularly if you’re at the end of your career and want to slow down,” he says. Your maturity means that “you can relate to a number of life stages,” she says. Is it that my boss got a promotion, and I didn’t? But don’t dismiss your feelings either, says Meister.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure. As with any type of endeavor, there's a learnable skill to starting up a brand new business. It will continue to shorten the half life of every technology, product, and market niche.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

Sarah busted her corporate idol, and made a dramatic career change – from investment banker to professional triathlete. But as I got older and that possibility seemed less likely, I had to give up that dream and turn my attention to other interests and to an alternative career path. Sarah Piampiano: Living Life Her Way. Best of luck!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. It sought input from thousands of the most intense Lego fans.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. competitors are entering the market. competitors are entering the market. The Vancouver-born brand wasn’t always just premium roast coffee beans.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

being pushed into the market is reaching truly overwhelming proportions. It’s been my experience that regardless of the subject, it is precisely when the noise becomes the loudest, that it’s most difficult for the consumer to extract quality and value from the market. And he was considered an expert!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

He had started his career in one of those jobs, as a country manager, and worked his way up. You can think of these distortions as a set of lenses to focus your attack on this chronic disease of maturing companies. To find the next wave of growth, they were taking a hard look at their bureaucracy.

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