N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. are also not business models. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Business Model Blog Brand Depreciation 269

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Always appreciate your insights Peter… [link] mikemyatt Hi Elliot: The four items mentioned in your list regrettably happen to exist in many domains far beyond the engineering field. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Thanks Brian. elliotross Allow me to echo the 'spot on' comments above!

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Blog Engineering Brand Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 15

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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Brand Blog Reputation Parcell 267

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

If your skill sets are best suited for business development, product development, branding, finance or other areas you may want to consider playing to your strengths by taking a senior position in the area of your subject matter expertise and hiring the best chief executive you can find to lead the company. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It was a pain by then but during the rest of my career that mentality has stuck with me and I found that its always easier comming up with the simple solution in the first place rather than dealing with complex workflows until you have had enough and go back to simplify it. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom. All Rights Reserved

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. and any number of other appearance specific issues can add to, or detract from, the strength of your personal brand. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL. All Rights Reserved

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Blog Gordon Brand Media 318

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 313

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

Most companies, whether start-ups or long-time players live in a world shaped by the laws of demand where low pricing can trump quality, and where targeted marketing, carefully crafted keywords, and social media engineering can build awareness, influence opinion, and generate sales. It’s the beach landing and the strategy for taking the hill.

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Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. 2 percent).

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 19, 2011

There were the occasional family trips across the country, the most memorable being the one to California and back after my High School graduation, complete with a robbery, car accident, and engine flames in the cab of the motor home while driving down the highway (these and other episodes will perhaps be covered in future musings).

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Travel Education Open-book Letter 115

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2016

What are the implications for their earnings, job satisfaction, and long-term career prospects? My coauthor and I set out to find some answers, particularly for science and engineering. scientists and engineers with undergraduate, master’s, or doctoral degrees in science and engineering.

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Entrepreneur Engineering Sample Education 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. Perhaps your story will serve to help others to never forget 9/11 and to always remember that there is a very expensive cost associated with our freedom. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo.

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Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

That leaves most organizations lacking a clear total workforce perspective and no integrated strategy to engage workers at the right time, cost, and contractual arrangement. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Sargeant Recruiter’s Career Coach [link] mikemyatt Hi Rebecca: Thanks for the comment and I'm glad you found the information to be useful.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 368

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Innovation Company Incentives Industry 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. Your blog certainly deserves to be at the top, in my opinion. I admire your keen insights and courage to speak your truth. link] Naveen Goel [link] Hi Mike, I am Naveen Goel (Sr. I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. Our Freedom.

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Blog Leadership Follow-up Media 378

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

But recent research from CareerRelocate.com and CareerBuilder shows that Americans may be more willing to move than we think: 44 percent of workers surveyed said they would be willing to relocate for a career opportunity. Employers are also most willing to pay relocation costs for employees with these skills.

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Health Care Engineering Skills Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 13

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. Exhaust resources that don’t cost first and at least come up to “Dummy&# level on each initiative that you manage. Be willing to be scattered.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

The potential to improve customer service while lowering costs makes this one of the most exciting areas of opportunity. Automating finance. This lets organizations reduce the amount of work outsourced to service centers and frees up finance staff to focus on strategic tasks. Measuring brand exposure.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

Salzman says that the US graduates far more workers in Science, Engineering, Technology, and Mathematics (STEM) than the tech industry needs and that foreign workers are causing Americans to get discouraged and join other professions. Many leave the field for other pursuits like finance and law — which sometimes pay higher wages.

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Skills Globalization Engineering Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. Most obviously, this represents an immediate cost. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics.

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Learning-by-Doing NGO Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech.

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CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. But that’s the true cost. And the answer is no.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. All businesses seek to control costs; they don’t need an economist to tell them why it’s important or how to do it. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

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Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Six Sigma Long-term Innovation Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As real space and cyberspace merge, do financial practices like budgeting provide value over their costs of time, money, effort, agility? Historically, people got to the C-suite by progressing up the career ladder in one discipline, moving among multiple companies until they made it to an executive role in finance, sales, etc.

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