N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

The answer may be that the innovator’s dilemma is no longer the only paradox at play in innovation management. For managers of industrial-era organizations, the economics of investing in disruptive opportunities were vexing. So naturally, as a manager, you left such innovations to new entrants. The Old Dilemma.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

DPR Construction, for example, is a deeply thoughtful, highly progressive force in an often troubled, slow-to-change industry. How many companies do you know that have a core ideology?) “We must be different from and more progressive than all other construction companies; we stand for something.”

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Entrepreneur Kleiner Venture Capitalist Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

We thought that creative, capability-rich companies would have paid a lot of attention to the way they organized and the value that restructuring gave them. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules. When we began our research, we expected to hear a lot about organizational design.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. The daughter of a senior corporate executive, she had all the right tickets including an MBA from a top school and several years of experience with a prestigious management consulting firm. (Carla's an actual executive whose name has been changed.).

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Proposal Cialdini Execution Influence 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. Be creative. “Negotiation isn’t about conceding, it’s about being creative,” Weiss adds. Further Reading.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume. Perhaps people and societies are a tiny bit more adaptive, resilient, intelligent, and creative than yesterdays institutions assume.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 17, 2011

We expect that Patty from finance will role her eyes when Antoine from marketing suggests an idea, we expect that Don from engineering will begin to scream when Sasha from sales wants faster turn-around on special customer orders. These expectations create a Folkloric Construct of belief, because our brains are essentially lazy.

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Team Building Construction Learning-by-Doing Training 104

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The world is not short on capital — a startling $43 trillion of assets is currently under management in the United States alone.

Finance 8

Finance Innovation Bond Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. For example, in some industries — say, construction — long-term ROEs are very close to the cost of equity capital. Creativity and ingenuity have always been precious. They must reward the creativity and ingenuity required to devise new growth options.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2011

The code not only works, other coders — perhaps less talented — can safely and creatively build on it, with it and for it. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

Engineering 14

Engineering Taylorism Taylor Productivity 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Business units come and go, but finance, HR, IT, marketing, legal, and R&D are forever. It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Real Estate Short-term Merchandising 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Siege Media Siege Media provides an outstanding content marketing service by combining a data-driven approach with genuinely exceptional creativity.

Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland must be doing something right, argues Sara Miller Llana, because they produce a lot of companies that are not only successful but also possessed of a powerful creative capacity that transcends languages and cultures. Managing yourself Productivity' Mike Merrill.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Advertising Hotels 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I don't think it's crazy to ask if your CEO is the next Mubarak," says Gary Hamel, one of business' most eminent theoreticians of management. Newly armed activists can become the source of creativity, innovation and new ideas to take your company or governmental representatives forward. This is Canada's No.

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Power Norton Hamel Leadership 102

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Whether constructing, deconstructing, or smashing brands, Martin’s understanding of branding goes far deeper than the tired noise you typically hear from brand agencies. I love creative thinkers and her presentation focused like a laser beam on creativity of thought and approach.

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