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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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The Homecoming Queen Grows Up (kinda)

Women on Business

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. Governor’s Conference for Women. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious.

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10 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? Great communicators can tailor a message such that they can speak to 10 people in a conference room or 1,000 people in an auditorium and have them feel as if you were speaking directly to each one of them as an individual.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities.

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions

Harvard Business Review

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography. Request an interview.

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The CIO in Crisis: What You Told Us

Harvard Business Review

This conversation has generated a lot of interesting conversation via blog comments, emails, and face-to-face interactions at conferences and meetings and has revealed a few more insights that should factor into our evolving thinking. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. See also here , here , and here.)

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