N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

I'm traveling this week, but will follow-up with you next week to arrange the Skype call. The focus of these short-sighted bean counters incorrectly place cost savings ahead of the customer experience. I'd love to schedule a skype call at some point if possible BTW! Scott [link] mikemyatt Hi Scott: Thanks for comment. Thanks Scott.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio. Moreover, it is those leaders who receive the negative press, those leaders who just can’t seem to get the job done that universally seem to be void in some or all of the aforementioned traits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Highways and bridges are in desperate need of repair, making travel slower—and more dangerous. A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. The Future of Operations. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

We're in an energy crisis, and this one is personal. For the past eight weeks, I'd spent at least two to three days traveling. There's the technology executive who has nearly 1000 unread emails in his inbox. The problem is that demand is outstripping our capacity. When I woke up, I still felt tired — and puzzled about why.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images. ” Clearly, more is needed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Airbnb lets spare room owners make money out of their idle asset and makes the asset easily accessible for more travelers. The idea of offering your spare room on the web is not new, but with Airbnb you don’t have to create your own website and hope that Google-searching travelers find you. housing sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. This was obvious during the financial crisis in 2008, when the government invested about 4 trillion RMB to enhance growth. China, too, needs more technological innovation. ” chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

They are called upon to advise companies that must manage risk in an increasingly complex global operating environment and navigate disruptive technologies that threaten their business models. Serving on a board is extremely time and travel intensive – a commitment that should be factored in before accepting a directorship.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Just in the last month, Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Commission issued a cease-and-desist order on Lyft and Uber operations. Berkeley, that found that, “car sharers report reducing their vehicle miles travelled by 44% (addressing travel congestion). Government Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I believe their governments did caution them about travelling to Japan.) As we approached Nippori Station on the East of Tokyo the announcer apologized that the train was three minutes late, explaining that they were "operating at lower speeds for the purpose of energy conservation."

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

For instance, I am traveling to Seattle to work with leaders soon, and will use several profound notions of Dr. Doidge’s applications about rigid routines that could change with a few adjustments to the brain’s plasticity. I recently started Tony Blair's book so we'll have to compare notes down the road.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Beacons are battery-powered wireless sensors installed in retail stores or event venues that detect nearby consumers who have opted in to alerts through Bluetooth or other technologies and that relay information to consumers’ mobile devices. This can help increase short-term sales as well as build long-term brand loyalty.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2016

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Would they be more open to new ideas?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points. Both challenges were fundamentally political with a small “p.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

They are able to play the role of ambassador, emissary, influencer, coach, facilitator, expediter, lobbyist, buffer/shield, crisis manager, negotiator, publicist, strategist, tactician, mentor, consultant, counselor, collaborative thinker and in some cases partner, based upon what the client needs. Ultimately, I agree with Peter.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

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