N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

They behave, in other words, like innovators. All three were times of exceptional innovation and creativity, for our clients and us. Social media and Web 2.0 How does innovation manage to flourish under such time and budget constraints? But this is exactly where our tendency to design by committee takes over.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marketing, sales teams and the DSD force itself operate with tremendous coordination to ensure that they are consistently aligned in their business objectives. If the products are hits, that's even better; because it "owns the shelf," there's a direct link back to innovation and marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

Eavesdropping on consumers’ social-media chatter allows marketers to economically and regularly peer inside people’s lives as they are being lived, without introducing biases through direct interaction. But despite its potential, companies underleverage the social media stream for market intelligence.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

The chief keeps on message; tells, sells, and persuades, newsletters, meetings and all available media. Innovation and experimentation become organizational values. Committee on the Future of the Department formed. Committee on the Future of the Department issues its report and the chief acts on the report.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Quality improvement is the only action that can simultaneously win the support of customers, employees, investors, media and the public. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Setting good company culture examples is a task for the leaders of the organization to establish from the first day of operation. Google Known for its innovative and relaxed work environment, Google encourages creativity, and collaboration, and provides various perks for employees, such as flexible schedules and on-site facilities.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2016

An international media firm that successfully moved from print to internet nonetheless faced new competition from the likes of Google and Buzzfeed. While a natural inclination, this group is (by design) representative of current operating units and functions, which often have a status quo to defend.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

A whopping 70% had jobs that are best described as self-employed; ranging from owner/operator of Diva Day Care to selling on eBay to teaching piano lessons. Today’s teens are getting a completely different work experience than I did – and it’s better preparing them to be innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

If this sounds eerily like allegations that Microsoft leveraged its dominant position in the market for desktop operating systems to promote its browser, media player, and desktop search over rivals'. First, he needs to explain to committee members and to the public, in plain terms, how Google's search engine works.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. Sometimes that requires creating a separate operating structure. Start with a survey.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. In the 21st century only IBM's Sam Palmisano has done so. When the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

The “conventional” workspace (drop ceilings, monochromatic cubicles and all) is being phased out in favor of connected spaces that encourage innovation and demand collaboration while still prizing individuality. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. It consists of thousands of super-skilled, conscientious, and objective analysts who visit each and every operating charity in America to do annual surveys. For a larger organization, they might spend a week.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2016

But they hoped that the benefits would extend far beyond this objective — that the project would introduce the Opera staff to new ways of thinking that offered the potential to fundamentally change how it operated. Yet, as with all innovators who challenge the status quo, the iGroups faced challenges. Wilsey Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

The scale of the lobbying effort to defeat these privacy regulations was so unprecedented that it caused EU Commissioner Viviane Reding to say that "I have not seen such a heavy lobbying operation.". Hack-Proof Your Company''s Social Media. Yesterday, when news of the PRISM program leaked into the public domain, two items struck me.

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