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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Having such a sharp focus ensures you can better whittle down the complexity of processes/interactions, as well as ensuring you don't become too dependent either on your top talent or even on your bigger customers, which can cause you to shift your goals to better suit their needs instead of your purpose.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Success Checklist

Strategy Driven

The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Instill discipline.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

Being sharp means being succinct. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Follow some basic ground rules to best focus the time and resources you have: Know what you need.

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Why Are India's Women So Stressed Out?

Harvard Business Review

"There's a sense that a woman is just working until she gets married, [that] she is not a long-term resource," said one senior finance professional. Women are critical contributors in finance, info-tech, pharmaceutical research, and other industries that are driving the growth of India Inc. We do all of them.".

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business Review

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine.

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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows

Harvard Business Review

Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. Your customer feedback is coming in through a variety of channels: phone calls to founders, emails to engineers, even the occasional text message.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe. Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. The best legacies are built moment-by-moment and day-by-day.

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