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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Twitter Marketing [link] mikemyatt Perhaps in some cases, but not in every instance…This is a very fluid topic that is heavily influenced by individual personalities, environmental context, and situational nuances. Thanks for commenting.

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How to Improve Your Sales Skills, Even If You’re Not a Salesperson

Harvard Business Review

” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” And that is part and parcel of professional life.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Decide if it ’s a consultancy or a skunkworks. Many companies have figured out how to parcel out small amounts of money to employees cultivating something new.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

At Lady Geek, a consultancy based in London, we define empathy as a cognitive and emotional understanding of others’ experiences. Whole Foods Market. Barratt Developments. United Parcel Service. Average earnings among the top 10 were up 6% this year, while the average earnings of the bottom 10 dropped 9%.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. He then mapped out the network of who consulted with whom. The result was that their ideas were not developed.

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