N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Unless you live on an isolated mountain top, without access to other people or the media at large, it would be difficult to get through the day without being impacted by issues of ethnicity, race, gender, age, sexual preference, religion, physical appearance, mental and physical challenges, etc. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. New and emerging tools such as social media listening, user research, and journey mapping can be powerful enablers to guide CPGs digital transformation. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) landscape is in the midst of a significant shake-up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

.” When I see just how difficult and challenging it is for so many smart and talented organizations to innovate and adapt under pressure, I see people who are overeducated and undertrained. This links directly to his second theme around “getting the incentives right.” That scares me. This made a huge difference.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Barriers to entry be damned.

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Rogers Telecommunications Disruptive Innovation Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These sorts of incentives take planning and should be incorporated into annual goals. Another outlet we've developed at my company are mini-projects we call "career leadership opportunities" (CLOs), which give employees time and goals outside their usual focus to develop new skills in areas of their own interest.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey. Being the leader can be more difficult when you care deeply, but you also foster amazing relationships, remarkable innovation, and genuine passion, the very best from those that work with you. That’s the hard part.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Economists point to problems of collective action and misaligned liability rules that actually reduce the incentives for firms to invest sufficiently and efficiently in protecting the network. A reasonable career move would be to specialize in "lower level" attacks like, well, corporate espionage and intellectual property theft.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

He also founded Bubblegeneration, an agenda-setting advisory boutique that shaped strategies across media and consumer industries. The bankers thought even one of six might have been impossible. The bankers thought even one of six might have been impossible.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

And he did, over and over, in a variety of media, making it very clear that diversity was a priority. One of our most important current innovations,” he wrote, “may not be technological. What it does take is changes to business systems (career management, leadership criteria, product and service design and delivery).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts. His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

They authentically want to be better innovators. These mid-career leaders and managers aren’t just seeking greater knowledge, they want to acquire greater skill. At mid-career, if you receive any kind of professional development, it has to have immediate impact on your organization. Don’t make “reinvention” your focus.

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Education Execution How To Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. The big revenue drivers in our business are TV media rights — both national and local — and ticket sales.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. That should help more tightly align incentives to provide original content with more returns in visibility and money. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. To ‘entrepreneurs in waiting’ who want to begin their careers in a corporation, I suggest the following: 1. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. EA says that would stifle innovation. Pick an industry on a growth curve.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

There is no questioning the fact that Musk’s talent for entrepreneurship, defined as the ability to translate original and useful ideas into practical innovations, is truly outstanding. Silicon Valley, with its myth of the lone innovator who disrupts the status quo, is particularly susceptible to these dynamics. Narcissism.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. _After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

How your boss gives you unsolicited career advice, based on his own (self-proclaimed) stellar career? But with the rise of social media, the path to expertise — or more correctly, perceived expertise — has shortened dramatically. Have you noticed that everyone around you now seems to be an expert at something?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

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Policies Short-term Education Diversity 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanic community is eager to lead, innovate, and help America reclaim its foundational values, but it needs a platform where their voices can safely and objectively express the things they are thinking about healthcare, jobs, immigration reform, the economy, and career advancement. Elevate the influence of Hispanics.

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