N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2019

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. The first item on the agenda was a proposal by ACME Consulting. As I stated at the beginning of the article, I was a consumer of consulting services for the majority of my career.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? In terms of solutions, Ann emphasised the need for employers to promote women proportionately through the ranks, offer flexible working solutions for those on career breaks and create sponsorship programs that cater to women from diverse backgrounds.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 28, 2019

Alas, in the UK at least, many people are working incredibly long hours, with data suggesting that UK workers are among the hardest workers in Europe, even if this doesn’t really translate into greater productivity. As labor market reforms have come and gone in the meantime, the general length of the working day has stubbornly endured.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Send the email you’re using now (this is your control, or “A”)) to 500 names, and send your proposed new email (“B”) to the other 500. This, of course, varies according to the product/service offered. For example, if you have an email list of 100,000 prospects, select every 100th prospect to create a test list of 1,000.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Information technology (tech) is at the epicenter of the world’s economy. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content. On the Atlantic side, proposals and programs proliferate in the countries of the European Union and with the EU itself.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Imagine crafting a sustainable career for yourself. Economic stagnation and unequal access to opportunity keep a sustainable career out of reach of many. Even among the socioeconomically privileged, investment in education, hard work, and commitment to a company is no guarantee of career success and fulfillment.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a concern that has manifested itself in a paper produced by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), which both highlights the crucial role immigration grows in fueling productivity and economic growth, but also the risks of political short-termism resulting in this talent supply being shut down. Improving the talent gap.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

Morgan : A few decades ago, when time was still a gentle concept, companies just rocked along in their comfortable hierarchies, everything centralized, proposals moving up the chain of command and decisions moving down at approximately the speed of glue. In my long career, 45 years of it as a CEO, I’ve lived that change.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 8, 2019

Far from being a destroyer of jobs therefore, what technology does seem to do is help inequality between those with skills and those without. A good example of this comes from a recently published study from the University of California, Los Angeles, which explores how technology (in the broadest sense) has affected wages over the years.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Leaders focused on products, profits, processes, and procedures are aiming too LOW. So let me propose the defining game changer which is one all good leaders practice regularly: know what you can do, what you cannot do, and know what you need to focus on to achieve your intended results. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2018

Author Frans Johansson explores the idea of “intersectional thinking” in his book The Medici Effect , proposing that the best ideas emerge from the collision of different industry insights. These could include things like spending two hours each week developing a skill that doesn’t fit in with your current career path.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

Consumers have more products, brands, and retailers to choose from than ever. The introverted leaders performed much more strongly and yielded better business results—14% higher profits and 28% higher productivity in the two test situations. They spend more time launching new brands and products than lobbying for resources.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2016

When productivity starts to slide, it’s not always easy to pinpoint the cause. Could it be that the technology’s not up to the job? The partners were concerned about levels of staff productivity and performance relative to the competition. And what are the productivity effects of taking it on?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Despite the East Coast roots of technology entrepreneurship and venture capital (VC), by the 1990s Silicon Valley had gained a major advantage over the Cambridge-Boston area. We propose three mutually reinforcing hypotheses. The same underlying technologies (e.g., Silicon Valley dominates these platform technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Our brick institutions have in no way caught up with what today’s technologies make possible in terms of virtual learning and individualized, customized instruction. There have been many proposals for change and experiments in redesign in the past few years. What can and should we do?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

More and more MBA instruction is now done by young PhDs with little or no business experience, whose career tracks are driven by publishing narrowly focused articles in academic journals. So here's a proposal to make sure MBAs are actually learning the skills they need: competency tests, administered to all graduates.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Having a sponsor increases the likelihood of being satisfied with the rate of career advancement. Clear career paths. Inclusive leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. “Many of them tell me that sales is something they never want to do in their careers.” What should you focus on first? What the Experts Say. .

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

Our advice therefore can’t boil down to a clear “avoid careers in a, b, and c” or “apply for jobs x, y, or z.” Congress or the European Union can throw all the regulations they want at banking and other industries, but politicians and bureaucrats are no match for today’s cognitive technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2008, I was designing advertising products at Google. For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. But these products don’t always deliver.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. The creator fleshes out his or her proposal in an "Expect-Us," rather than a prospectus, assigns it a ticker symbol, and floats it at a starting price of $10. Beyond blockbuster new products, the game generates entirely new directions for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

By making a compelling case to redesign a key process or develop a promising new offering, for instance, you can have a big impact on productivity or revenue. And if you fail to get buy-in , the organization might suffer — along with your career.) But his boss had selected the existing system just a year before.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 31, 2015

In the 21st century, the notion of productivity is very different from which prevailed during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Inundated by emails, text messages, tweets, and phone calls, executives are experiencing a decline in productivity. . Self-coaching guides for Career Women: Women and Time (ebook for $.99

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Business education today is anachronistic – it has in no way caught up with what today’s communications technologies make possible in terms of individualized instruction and virtual learning. There have been many proposals for change and experiments in redesign in the past few years. What can and should we do?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I propose that we take a cue from other types of markets and create a Labor Market Maker — a team that proactively manages supply and demand. Here's where we need to be imaginative: Why can't multiple employers with differing production schedules share a workforce? How can the U.S. labor market become more efficient?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. As leaders, do physicians create a more sympathetic and productive work environment for other clinicians, because they are “one of them”?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2013

He emailed Christopher Tan, a marketer with an interest in mobile technologies and experience building applications, and within 36 hours, they had come up with a prototype. Driving home that evening, he came up with the idea of a web application that would randomly pair people throughout the organization for lunch.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

—Andrea Ovans Getting the Vapors Kodak Moment The Economist With the European Parliament set to vote next week on whether electronic cigarettes should be regulated as medical products, this is a good time to reflect on the inroads this disruptive technology is making in the slow-moving, not-very-innovative tobacco industry.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. Our group welcomes the competition. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2018

Most of us don’t oversee huge IPOs, but sooner or later, every team faces an unexpected crisis: technology breaks, a competitor makes a disruptive move, a promising project fails, a key employee quits, consumers have a negative reaction to a new product—the list goes on. There is a better way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2015

When your energy is highest – often in the morning – you should focus on work and maximize your productivity. If so, you may need to rethink your career. The workday is a constant blur of team meetings and calls, appointments with clients, and product planning sessions. Then step away for a rest.

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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. We are not proposing the elimination of functions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. Two engineers proposed an architecture optimized for the FPGA.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

This is called Functional Fixedness and while you probably won''t need to build a fort during your professional career, chances are you do suffer from it and it is impacting your work. Companies often struggle to develop breakthrough products because they are hobbled by Functional Fixedness. How can I be so sure? you''re human, right?

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