N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I had decided to go over and stay at a hotel on 9/10 in order to make the early morning meeting and beat the commute. When I walked out of the hotel the first plane had just hit and smoke was coming from the tower. What followed the remainder of the day on 9/11 was a combination of heroic and eerie. I Think Not.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

After he used the Trib’s own retirement plan as leverage to buy the company, Zell brought in as CEO a former morning zoo style radio shock jock named Randy Michaels. It wasn’t long after Michaels arrival that he was impressing his co-workers by offering $100 to a waitress at the nearby InterContinental Hotel to expose herself.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The following season NAIB officials invited Indiana State again, and this time decided they would allow Clarence to play, provided he didn’t stay at the hotel with his teammates and wouldn’t be seen publicly with them. Once again the coach declined. Wooden taught and lived out the character values he wanted his players to adopt.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. You call it this big bang disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

This can be especially tough for early-career professionals to accept, especially those in entry-level positions. Whatever its source, entitlement is a career killer, a noose with which employees of any generation can — and do — hang themselves. C-DOT had two floors of a five-star hotel as their workspace.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Nikola Tesla electricity throwdown, Razeghi explains that Tesla only had one key stakeholder behind him (George Westinghouse), while Edison was better connected to innovators and other VIPs (Henry Ford, Warren G. CEO Marissa Mayer is considered a darned good role model for a whole host of reasons. Harding, and more). GENERAL FAILURE.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2011

If the place sounds more like an elegant hotel than a traditional hospital, that's no accident. Gerard van Grinsven, West Bloomfield's CEO, joined Henry Ford after a long career with Ritz-Carlton. "I I had a fresh pair of eyes and no baggage when I arrived," van Grinsven told me.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

After a successful career in publishing, consulting, speaking, and business, he was approached by the board to help resurrect the institution. Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. .

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

It’s what Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre hotels, calls finding “meaning at work and meaning in work.” There are parallel career tracks all the way to some of the most senior roles, so that people can keep doing what they’re best at, whether it’s writing code or leading a team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Barksdale was the veteran of IBM, FedEx and AT&T Wireless (he mostly worked at it when it was called McCaw Cellular) who was brought on a few months after Netscape’s founding to provide adult supervision as its CEO. We were at the Savoy Hotel, and the ballroom was full of all these British investment bankers, and we give our normal pitch.

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