N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

The One Thing About Your Spouse’s Personality That Really Affects Your Career. CEOs Get Paid Too Much According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' We hope you enjoy it. Mysteries, Solved. The Real Reason New MBAs Want to Work for Goldman Sachs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When I spoke with John Hass, the CEO of Rosetta Stone, about what his company does, his focus wasn’t just on learning languages. Jim Fowler and Jeff Smith talked about peripheral vision in relation to the chief information officer role (Fowler is currently CIO at General Electric, and Smith was formerly CIO at IBM). ”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

I felt oddly self-conscious as I wrote: “I hope you grow up to become a CEO.” Even as a female CEO, stating this goal publicly felt like a jarring contrast to all pretty pink ribbons and lacy cupcakes at the party. Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves. of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. This compares to the 0.5%

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

If you ever want to lie awake at night, go ahead and think about your "one thing" — the one thing you were born to do, the one career you were built to succeed at, and the one person you were destined to spend the rest of your life with. Your social networks are a valuable asset, and your connections are waiting to be tapped.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed? When you are gone, will analytics be first in the hearts and minds of your CEO, your CMO and your board of directors? Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. It would be a shame if they did.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft. Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security? Government Information & technology Risk management' Data Under Siege An HBR Insight Center. Welcome to the "Data Under Siege" Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. As Palmisano built IBM into the world's leading information technology company, its competitors dithered. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! Palmisano has an engaging manner and keen sense of humor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The CIO must step up and mentor the C-suite on the potentials, possibilities, threats and opportunities of information technology, but likewise, the HR lead needs to discuss the impact of a free-agent workforce, the head of legal needs to discuss the impacts of open innovation and IP sharing, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Since many corporate leaders began their careers when physical stuff dominated business, they often view intangible assets as risky, overvalued, and difficult to manage. But as Warren Buffet has observed, “Once [leaders] become CEOs, they face new responsibilities. In our experience, there are other causes as well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Workfront CEO Alex Shootman says digitization is happening in most companies on a function-by-function basis, leaving teams to work in silos instead of executing new strategies together. And today I’m talking with Alex Shootman, President and CEO of Workfront. ” Download this interview. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Knack’s CEO and founder, Guy Halfteck, assured me that this wouldn’t be the case. “In As for risk, in my career I have worked for four large and stable media companies (stable when I worked there at least, except for my last few years at Time Inc.) Hiring Information & technology Job search' Did I believe that?

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

I think our principal observation was that what was happening was that disruptive innovations driven by largely information technology but lots of other technologies on the fringe here that are getting ready to exhibit the same kind of characteristics were entering the market in kind of this better and cheaper way.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

Here are some constructive ideas: Ray Wang , Principal Analyst & CEO of Constellation Research Group outlines four personas of the next generation CIO : Chief "Infrastructure" Officer: "Keeping the lights on" and managing existing systems. IT management Information & technology Organizational culture' focus and vision.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In virtually every advanced field, whether it’s information technology, biotechnology, agriculture, or renewable energy, America holds a leading position. vincent tsui FOR HBR. Since World War II, the U.S. has been an innovation superpower. In the pharmaceutical industry, the monitoring process can be incredibly elaborate.

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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. Information & technology Internet Strategy' Barksdale: That’s right.

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