N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Swensen said this at a Bloomberg Link conference held in honor of that great fiduciary, Vanguard founder Jack Bogle. For Bogle, that's because the company where he spent his peak earning years was structured as a mutual — owned by its customers and operated on their behalf. But in financial markets, it's problematic.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You might be the greatest widget-maker on the planet, but if the market for widgets is saturated that will not matter – it will be a struggle, up-hill, to get noticed by potential customers. Here are some ideas about how you can start and grow your network: Join your national professional associations and attend conferences.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Companies in multiple industries are already altering their approaches in changing urban markets. Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. JoaoVictor_ac Myles Munroe [link] Lance Martin I would love to nominate Jason Young.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To begin with, being LLC is the most advantageous option for any new and small business from many legal and operational aspects. No matter how virtualized our lifestyle gets, we still need to operate through physical spaces. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The proliferation of C-suite roles is an indication of the increasing strategic and operational complexity organizations face. Brad Peters, CEO of Birst, a business intelligence company, raised the issue of incentives and structure with me in an interview at Saleforce.com’s Dreamforce conference.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

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. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In 2012, Congress gave the FAA until 2015 to develop rules for military, commercial, and privately-owned drones to operate in U.S. Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. Many use smartphones and tablets as their controllers.).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. When Uncle Wall Street (also known as Mr. Market ) is in a generous mood, Bezos is always ready to take advantage by putting investment ahead of profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out. As the second week of May began, Dimon realized, "The last thing I told the market — that it was a tempest in a teapot — was dead wrong," the Journal reports.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. What do you do? Hire interpreters?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

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. See also here , here , and here.) They also worked with the CIO to help them to understand the business.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. They were both naïve to think that creating a high-expense, polished operation would automatically enhance their business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2019

To begin with, being LLC is the most advantageous option for any new and small business from many legal and operational aspects. No matter how virtualized our lifestyle gets, we still need to operate through physical spaces. For instance, you can save the entire cost of your marketing if you are using social media the way it should be.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As one woman told us, “When I went down to Atlanta to run that market for the company, the president of the division said, ‘You are going to be fired within a year, because no one has been able to make Atlanta successful.’ ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 11, 2018

Your utility bills can be a big drain on your finances if you don’t shop around for the best deals. If you can keep things virtual as much as possible, you’ll be able to save money on overhead expenses and operating costs. Find Ways To Save On Your Marketing. Shop Around For Your Business Utilities. Start Using Free Software.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Always operate from the belief that you can always grow and get better as a leader and as a person. I've seen John in person at few of our conferences teaching leadership to us and I am really do admired the knowledge and wisdom he gained. Hope I can attend one of his conferences on leadership. Leaders are learners.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. IPOs can confer great benefits on companies that are able to go through them. And worst of all, many IPOs never get completed due to market downturns.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

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. Speak to groups as individuals : Leaders don’t always have the luxury of speaking to individuals in an intimate setting.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says. It doesn’t have to be a big party; “it could be coffee and donuts in the conference room.” Lechner also recommends reconsidering your team configuration.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it. For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service. Understanding how I related to each of those helped me see what else was possible.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

I have had to run worldwide social marketing campaigns in the past in order to attract attention to our work in what could be dismissed as obscure backwaters of the global system. I am expected to integrate my tools into complex global supply chains of international drug producers to solve the local problem of counterfeiting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Each can confer decisive advantage in the marketplace or the school room, the battlespace or the political race. Common Operating Pictures. Rapid Innovation/Move-to-Market Cycles. Wrong: collaboration with customers speeds your move to market. That knack market leaders have for knowing what will happen next, and when?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But now our meetings consist of working moms and dads sitting awkwardly in a conference room, talking about how hard it all is. In these organizations, the working parents’ groups feel like natural and essential outgrowths of core operations. There’s so much goodwill, but nobody really knows how to make this thing work.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

Ford still may have produced the best car for the money, but Sloan’s GM trounced Ford Motors by producing the best product lines for the market. Moreover, they operated on a scale that is unthinkable in a business climate that prizes “nimbleness”: in 1960, GM had 500,000 employees on its payroll.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. in the proportional size of its mid-market business sector. In fact, Wisconsin is number two in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

She'd mentioned her business, Calidad de Vida, a group of day care centers for the elderly, and he'd peppered her with questions, explaining that he was interested not only as a doctor (he was the leading cardiothoracic surgeon at Madrid's best hospital) but also as a potential investor (he'd unloaded his stocks just before the market collapsed).

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