N2Growth Blog

APRIL 28, 2014

They must be willing to decentralize their decision?making driven thinking to navigate the maze of organizational politics – and the schedule to do so – to accept real change that actually matters and will stick. It is a catalyst that combines innovative new insights to propel ideas off of paper and into the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

In a pattern that would become familiar to today’s innovation thinkers, Worthy reports, “the then managements of Sears and Wards alike failed to grasp the significance of these new developments.”. But then “Sears found the answer first,” Worthy reports, in 1924. He predicts that Sears will be a big loser.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 23, 2023

One would assume that if the engines of innovation are working as the hype suggests, Schumpeter’s famous creative destruction would be happening at a rate seldom seen before. If we worry that large companies can influence politics, how do we improve democratic institutions?” “Corporate concentration (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

To protect this vision from political pressure and regulatory interference, blockchain networks rely on a decentralized infrastructure that can’t be controlled by any one person or group. Unlike political regulation, blockchain governance is not emergent from the community. Consider the case of The DAO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2016

As Congress plays politics over emergency funds requested months ago , Zika is on the verge of spreading across the United States. These are difficult to scale or decentralize. Candidate vaccines for Zika won’t begin large-scale trials until 2017 and, assuming they work safely, would not be available until 2018 or later.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When Accenture asked 250 senior executives of Asian companies expanding overseas to compare their source of competitive advantage today and in three years, 55% cited high quality products and services, while 47% cited high-value innovation. The Politics of China’s Economic Adjustment. China’s Next Great Transition.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

We also have a decentralized banking system, including more than 7,000 small banks , that provides loans to entrepreneurs. As a result, workers have a better chance of finding the right job, firms find it easier to innovate, and new firms find it easier to get started. A decentralized political system in which states compete.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

This shift in sentiment suggests that a single-payer system — a “Medicare for all” — may soon be a politically viable solution to America’s health care woes. This system has long been an aspiration of the far left, yet even the right now seems to acknowledge its growing likelihood. This is changing.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Over-centralization England’s political landscape suffers from “incoherence”, which has contributed to a sense of democratic disenfranchisement among its residents.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The benchmark, therefore, is a tool for policy makers, technology innovators, and others to evaluate progress and prioritize the gaps, thus enabling a dialogue among the key actors and a plan for action. Israel is mostly surrounded by hostile neighbors in a politically tense region. Methodology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Antitrust came to represent the Magna Carta of free enterprise – it was seen as the key to preserving economic and political freedom. The competition ideal was the belief, in line with democratic principles, in dispersing economic and political power from the hands of a few, to foster greater opportunities to compete, improve, and win.

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