N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. Perhaps most importantly for leaders, good conflict resolution ability equals good employee retention.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible. Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. Looking at Dan’s original post, I wonder at his definition of “team” He says, “If ultimate decision making is reserved for the “team leader,” you don’t have a team. But a team doesn’t imply unanimous opinion.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology is complex, but the idea is simple. They make it difficult to cheat.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2017

With the continual advancement of technology making inter-business bonding easier, you can be sure that the evolution of these New Economy Ecosystems will continue. The global marketplace requires businesses to establish highly integrated and cooperative relationships with one another. The game has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

In his seminal essay, “ Why Software is Eating the World ,” Marc Andreessen pointed out that for each new technology wave, the money eventually shifts to software. Despite recent technological advances, the task of turning data into information is characterized by vast inefficiencies. Can we make a similar shift with data?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Department of Labor retracted a guidance document regarding the definition of employees versus independent contractors that had been issued under my watch (you can find a copy here , however). The definition of who is an employee varies between federal and state laws, which admittedly raises complexities for employers and workers alike.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

In fact, it''s the very definition of parity. Other companies pray that technology can save them. Sixty-two percent of our panelists report that technology advancements drive their firms'' innovation activities. But technology for technology''s sake can end in disaster. Infuse innovations with the brand.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

By definition, change is a departure from the past. But the minute you need cooperation for something new or different, the ghosts spring into action. When new technologies displace old ones, jobs can be lost; prices can be cut; investments can be wiped out. Wherever possible keep things familiar. Loss of face. Past resentments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2014

threat to withhold post-war aid to any non-cooperative ally. The Department of Defense, which had originally opposed the deal, reversed course when it finally occurred to government officials that if we did not sell the Rumanians this technology, others in Western Europe would. didn’t have much effect on the rest of the world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2013

Microsoft might be cooperating with some governments to spy on Skype calls, but we don''t know which ones. This has become possible largely because of two technology trends: cloud computing and vendor-controlled platforms. Facebook regularly abuses the privacy of its users. Google has stopped supporting its popular RSS feeder.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

single, definitive answers ) based on macro factors – a deeply flawed approach, since it simply projects historic experience without paying due regard to future technological and economic changes. In the past, planners have tried to map future demands for infrastructure capacity by creating point forecasts (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

I taught the first masters course on technological entrepreneurship in Israel at the Technion in 1987, 15 years after Israel’s first tech IPO on NASDAQ and when the entrepreneurial revolution in Israel was well underway. Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship definitely do not occur in a business vacuum. How well did you score?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

It’s a big step forward for cross-border cooperation, and the ramifications for energy producers and users (that is, everyone) could be enormous. The definition of “renewable” here includes not just the obvious (wind, solar, and geothermal), but also the more controversial sources of hydropower and nuclear.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. ” No technology company would object to that proposal. But these programs, including the troubled Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, have had limited success, if any at all.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's the growing fidelity demands of today's internet population, as they transition from text, image, and standard-definition media-sharing, to high-definition (and even 4K) file transfer. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? a distributed computing company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

It's the growing fidelity demands of today's internet population, as they transition from text, image, and standard-definition media-sharing, to high-definition (and even 4K) file transfer. Or do we need better technologies that can be more efficient at using the internet we've already got? a distributing computing company.

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