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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. While some companies talk a good game with regard to competitive strategy, in my experience very few businesses actually address the issue in adequate fashion. that can cause disruption in the market.

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Are Your Employees Mad As Hell and Not Going to Take It Anymore?

Tanveer Naseer

Quitting your job is not something most employees would consider doing in light of today’s weak job market. Of course, fewer still would choose to hand over their two week’s notice to the accompaniment of a marching band.

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Featured Rascal: Tank Man

Chris Brady

  Yaobang had been a popular figure among students andintellectuals, standing for the concepts of free markets and democracy in acommunist nation.   In thetypical fashion of tyrannical regimes, the outside world has no complete set ofconfirmed facts regarding the total killed, their names, or the charges againstthem.

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Reinvigorate Your Career by Taking the Right Kind of Risk

Harvard Business Review

.” Embracing market risk in our careers is a high-percentage move. We are increasingly aware of the importance of assuming market risk when it comes to starting or growing a business, but assuming market risk is also a critical accelerant of the personal disruption that fuels individual career growth.

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When Old Technologies Create New Industries

Harvard Business Review

People understandably get excited about new digital technologies, whether it’s the digital camera that is cheaper than developing rolls upon rolls of film, or the photo-sharing apps that – in turn — make your iPhone camera easier to use than your old digital camera. Consider the Norwegian technology company Piql.

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Outsourcing the Old Folks

Harvard Business Review

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel , a new film set in India and directed by Shakespeare in Love's John Madden (age 63), hangs its plot on the notion of "outsourcing" the elderly. Next year's The Intern features Tina Fey as the founder of a fashion company who takes on a 70-something mentee.

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business Review

The past year brought a rich array of films depicting connections between a wise, older mentor and a younger person in need of sage guidance, in ways that often defied gauzy stereotypes, from art-house movies like Lily Tomlin’s Grandma to blockbusters like Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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