N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 28, 2017

We work remotely,” she says, “they do a lot of the marketing side – that’s not really my thing. It’s definitely important to hire people you trust, who can do things that you can’t.”. It was slowing construction projects down, especially when I was doing renovations and speed was of the essence. Absolutely,” he concurs.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The following tips will help to more effective handle conflicts in the workplace: Define Acceptable Behavior : You know what they say about assuming…Just having a definition for what constitutes acceptable behavior is a positive step in avoiding conflict. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach. I Think Not.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

Additionally, you want to look beyond first impressions, encourage innovation, let your team members do the teaching, and offer rewards and recognition. Instead, use it constructively so that your team can solve a problem together and figure out how to way to address the problem. He is founder of online payments company Due.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2012

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

But when you are leading innovation, the world is anything but predictable. By definition, innovation deals with the unknown. And that's why you are the biggest problem when it comes to innovation. But it is precisely the kind of thinking that will let you get out of your own way when you're leading innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

June's Harvard Business Review features a story by Procter & Gamble Chief Technology Officer Bruce Brown and me on " How P&G Tripled Its Innovation Success Rate." First, some of the ways that P&G reduces risk on individual projects are generally good innovation practices for everyone. What if I don't have that foundation?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2015

Breaking up isn’t easy — especially if you are a leader “breaking up with” an innovation project that one of your teams still believes in passionately. It is a critical part of the innovation journey however, and done well can produce a positive outcome across the board.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Companies in all varieties of B2B markets have moved beyond selling products and services to offering complete "solutions" to their customers. Customers and suppliers often have different definitions. Solutions often represent major innovations and, as such, customers may not always be able to grasp the value immediately.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

We find that firms making investments and improving their performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues exhibit better stock market performance and profitability in the future. In contrast, fair marketing and advertising of products are very important for companies in these sectors. SASB uses the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2015

Lewis, for example, offers up the simplest of definitions — “All it really meant was how you planned to make money” — to make a simple point about the dot.com bubble, obvious now, but fairly prescient when he was writing at its height, in the fall of 1999. It was still not clear that the model made sense.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. The weapons being brandished are devilishly constructed patents; the rules of engagement the arcane procedures of federal courts. Innovation Tech industry Technology' In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I’m the founder of Nestio , a startup that helps landlords and brokers market and lease apartments. These days I’m spending a lot of time in conference rooms interviewing prospective candidates, from engineers to salespeople to a new director of marketing. If candidates get defensive, that’s a bad sign. Even worse.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy — which generate profits that we invest in innovation!" Meanwhile, audiences demand snappy-looking, easy-to-digest graphics that, almost by definition, strip away nuance. Who could argue with that?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

It is, unfortunately, also a great analogy for how many organizations have constructed their IT systems. Mrs. Winchester began building her mansion in 1884 and its construction proceeded without interruption until her death in 1922. Neither is acceptable in a world dominated by digital innovation, change, and disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition. Similar intermediaries include BankWork$ for the banking sector, YouthBuild in construction, and iFoster in the grocery industry. Sourcing for Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Pull out in the messy middle, and by definition the effort is a failure. I hear woes-of-the-middle tales from all kinds of leaders in all stages and sectors; innovators getting a new idea off the ground, real estate developers facing stalled construction, companies approaching foreign markets, and CEOs leading complex turnarounds.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Companies across the globe are forging into the future by using urban physics to rewrite the commonly held definitions of office space. Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation. Space is both a reflection and projection of company culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2015

As Levie put it, “in this industry, people already think they have innovated if they have painted a grey wall green.” As a result of these decisions, citizenM’s construction costs are 40% lower than other 4-star hotels and staffing is 40% lower too, but occupancy rates (consistently above 95%) are considerably higher.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2016

Most current definitions of engagement are bimodal – someone is either engaged or they’re not. Measuring Marketing Insights. This stage is where rich collaboration and innovation lies. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. We know that customer engagement matters. Yet much of our thinking about engagement remains simplistic.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

65 Content Marketers List the 44 Content Marketing Agencies Crushing It (Plus 70 Tips & 78 Myths Dispelled) ​Digital marketing is becoming harder to ignore as we now live in a world of internet ubiquity. Click "READ MORE" to see the 44 content marketing agencies and 70 related tips from the experts!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Dont be so refined as never to be pleased ( Samuel Johnsons definition of the sophisticate ). Dont be so refined as never to be pleased ( Samuel Johnsons definition of the sophisticate ). Posting Guidelines We hope the conversations that take place on HBR.org will be energetic, constructive, free-wheeling, and provocative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2015

In cloud computing, we’ve seen these network effects help solidify the position of massive players – locking new entrants out of the market. In the world of transportation, this is definitely a possibility and one of the primary reasons so many next generation companies are trying to expand so quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

An Uber ride carries a real commercial value, and donating them en masse to get users to a candidate’s rally, for example, could fit the FEC’s definition of an in-kind contribution (providing an object or service, “anything of value”). Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Can you think of any business topic that’s been hotter for longer than innovation? In a McKinsey poll , 94% of the managers surveyed said they were dissatisfied with their company’s innovation performance. And yet when it comes to innovation, the gap between aspiration and accomplishment seems as big as ever.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

A marketing revolution is under way and nowhere is that more visible than in the CMO’s transforming role. In this edited interview, Weed describes a new breed of marketing organization, and the CMO’s increasingly strategic role. The construct came from our CEO Paul Polman. What’s the rationale for that?

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Our compadres would pile into our cramped room to offer praise or constructive criticism. Some howlers and growlers definitely made it through, and generally standards plummeted. But even artists have to eat, and the fuel of commerce and industry is innovation and novelty. That was always a good feeling. Probably.) Let’s trade.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2018

Research by Bersin examined the issue of learning culture in great detail and found that companies who effectively nurture their workforce’s desire to learn are at least 30% more likely to be market leaders in their industries over an extended period of time. By definition, performance is highest when we are not learning.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 21, 2010

Saturday, August 21, 2010 Lots Of Lessons From Post-it Notes There are lots of lessons tied to those canary yellow squares, called Post-it Notes -- how ideas and innovations can come from anyone on your team at any time. How test marketing is critical. How they can be used by leaders to boost morale.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Innovation tourism: it’s a thing. These well-intentioned professionals travel the world in pursuit of the secret sauce of innovation. If you ask the director of a government innovation agency how influential or effective they are, what answer do you expect, other than “ extremely ?” Kenneth Andersson.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? IBM’s recently-announced Project Debater is a case in point: it showed just how far AI has come in terms of constructing and articulating a point of view, but equally how much better humans are at balancing different points of view. Firms create value by taking a long-term perspective.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround. Standard operating procedures fail because the situations are by definition nonstandard. They were more and more focused on growing the top line and innovating, and launched new initiatives accordingly.

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