N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Steven Spielberg had John Williams as music composer for his films. A host of people make the CEO look good. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. She knew what everyone was thinking and was the glue to the cases. In short, never stop!

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 19, 2016

The Trusted Executive: Nine Leadership Habits That Inspire Results, Relationships and Reputation” helps leaders develop a strategy for building organizational trust. As late as 1976, Kodak accounted for 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the United States. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Similarly, the increased development of 3D games, 3D mobile devices, and 3D movies has stimulated the demand for true 3D displays both in consumer and enterprise applications. According to Market Analysts, the Global 3D displays market is expected to grow by double digits with market size of over $100 billion in the next 5 years.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 13, 2013

Joey Reiman is CEO and founder of BrightHouse. Over the past 25 years, Joey has worked with leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s and Newell Rubbermaid, and has emerged as one of the nation’s foremost visionaries and leading authorities on thinking and marketing.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 8, 2013

Joey Reiman: Part 1 of an interview by Bob Morris Joey Reiman is CEO and founder of BrightHouse. He is the best-selling author of several books, [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. EDENS, of which the latter is CEO, has led the revitalization of the 45-acre Union Market district in Northeast Washington, DC. The Union Market challenge. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But it got stuck in its core competence of traditional film products and missed the rise of digital photography and printing. To survive, it has stopped selling film cameras, focusing on the digital ones that dominate the market. Organizations such as IBM and GE have adapted over the years to remain competitive in the market.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. So he asked the CMO to broker a meeting with the CEO to make a presentation on the subject. No wasted film, slides, or prints.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2017

However, 48% of the mid-sized world market leaders come from Germany. This includes the German history of many small independent states (until 1918 Germany consisted of 23 monarchies and three republics), which forced entrepreneurs to internationalize early on in a company’s development if they wanted to keep growing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

However, from the perspective of managers and CEOs operating in Nigeria, there are some important implications. Before the announcement, the stock market capitalization to GDP ratio for Nigeria was 33%, compared to 270% for South Africa. First, there will be some changes in the competitive landscape. Global business'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

Ed Catmull is a co-founder and the longtime head of Pixar Animation Studios, which struggled for 10 years from its founding in 1986 until the runaway success in 1995 of its first feature film, Toy Story. There was some unhappy news about one of your films in production. We have had a substantial difficulty with every film that we made.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The same is true for any camera crews who might be filming your presentation. Nancy’s firm has worked with the top brands and thought leaders in the world helping them develop their presentations. For presentations where the press is present, be sure to repeat critical messages verbatim from your press materials.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

In today’s fast-changing, unpredictable environments, companies must simultaneously exploit existing profitable business models to run their core business and also explore new products, markets, and models to drive growth. of your market cap to about 25%—Pixar was about 10% of Disney.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2018

However, they have all failed in China, the world’s largest digital market. Google, for example, has succeeded in dominating many foreign markets that have radically different political systems and cultures (including Indonesia, Thailand, and Saudi Arabia). imposing technological platforms developed for the U.S.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Recruiting John Sculley as CEO of Apple. Feeling that he needed an experienced operating and marketing partner, the then 29-year-old Jobs lured Sculley to Apple with the now legendary pitch: "Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Not knowing the right market for NeXT computer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

During Tootsie, walking in the shoes of a woman had such a profound impact on Dustin Hoffman that, 30 years later, recalling his decision to make the film brought tears to his eyes in an interview with the American Film Institute. Once you’ve started to develop empathy as a skill, you can make it integral to the work you do.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

To foster a conversation about the potential implications of connected experiences for designers, technologists, and business people, Albert’s team at Microsoft recently released a short film documentary called “Connecting: Makers.”. Sometimes this is done creatively, as with the razor-and-blades model made famous by Gillette.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The past year has been difficult for many markets in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nestlé announced plans to cut its staff in some central African countries, while Barclays’s new CEO is considering selling off the bank’s Africa assets. Businesses will have to adapt to withstand slower and more variable growth across SSA.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1. While customers may be hesitant to purchase equipment from a nascent startup, GE CEO Jeff Immelt has quipped, "No utility CEO will ever get fired for working with GE."

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

This takes very little time and can be filmed with a camera at your desk. He delivered equally stellar results for EMC, Aetna and West Corporation before becoming CEO of a technology company in need of innovation. Make use of product videos, and feel free to share them with your customers. Sean founded vidREACH.io

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Branding is one of the top concerns of CEOs and CMOs, and smart firms are investing as much as ever on branding initiatives — even online. To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. of total digital spend.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

During this time Reebok and Nike were blood rivals and neck and neck for the number one position in the market. With the Freestyle, Reebok had identified a market that Nike had completely missed — women''s aerobics. We put a sign on the table, "Free T-shirts, One Per Customer," and retreated to a safe distance to film the result.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Poor performance has led to the departure of its CEO and plenty of critical attention in the business pages. In 2010, I wrote an HBR article predicting increased interest in supply-chain transparency: firms needed to develop strategies for knowing and explaining where stuff comes from.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

and other developed markets? Under private equity investment, the CEO—formerly the top decision maker in the company—has to answer to the representative assigned by the private equity firm. For American firms partnering with Chinese companies, access to new international markets, especially in China, is an obvious gain.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2013

The current social strategy of many Marketing and Ad Agencies goes something like: “It doesn’t matter if the content is good, as long as we get a celebrity to tweet it, the thing will go viral!” Yet any attempt to market to these hyperactive, frenzied, texting balls of estrogen would be rejected and loathed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Over the years, I''ve seen tough-as-nails CEOs abandon their normal prudence when dealing with China and its potentially vast market. And Beijing has done little over the years to stop the piracy that is devastating Time Warner''s film distribution business in Asia. But the opportunity there is simply too great to ignore.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. So she wrote a memo to the CEO explaining why gender balance is good for business. If you say we should, let’s do it. Initially there was no buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

Before my presentation at an employee event, I listened as CEO Inge Thulin and senior execs from each of the major divisions laid out their strategies. The new CEO is making sustainability, growth, and innovation a powerful trifecta. Thulin spoke about sustainability being "embedded.in our new vision" of growth and innovation.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Ask any experienced marketing professional about the top moves you can make to accelerate your marketing campaigns at any level of business, and an overwhelming majority will point to the weight that compelling customer testimonials carry. Once you have your interviewer figured out, turn attention towards the logistical matters.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

CEO George Fisher’s resignation in 2000, following a famously frustrated push for digital, set the stage for successors Dan Carp and Antonio Perez to reincarnate the company. Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. digital-camera sales (No.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2013

Victors and Spoils (V&S), where John is CEO, for example, wanted to land the Harley Davidson account after the motorcycle maker split with its long-time agency. Harley helped V&S launch Fan Machine by enlisting its fans to develop a new campaign. Advertising Innovation Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

The Conversation is also a 1974 film by Francis Ford Coppola whose themes include the role of technology in society and being so focused on what you are doing that you forget why you are doing it and become oblivious to what is happening around you. made me break out in cold sweats. Here''s a start to that conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

High-value functions such as infrastructure development and database administration were retained; others, including PCs, networks, and mainframes, were outsourced. The company's version of the truth regarding core values was based around silver halide film and paper. Unfortunately, Kodak focused on the internal perspective.

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