The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“Once they are formed they persist, possibly for centuries, and since different structures and types display different degrees of this ability to survive, we almost always find that actual group and national behavior more or less departs from what we should expect it to be if we tried to infer it from the dominant forms of the productive process.”.

Succession 82

Succession Entrepreneur Globalization Innovation 82

Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. Companies have to be consistent in their behaviour, from top to bottom, and right along the supply chain, from the ‘first hand of production to the final hand of the consumer’.

Supply Chain 75

Supply Chain Brand Advertising PR 75

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. It’s like having a mentor guide your journey.

Books 236

Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip.

Blog 419

Blog Reputation Participative Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

Blog 417

Blog Fashion Brand Self-aware 417

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Nabob survived near-bankruptcy in the ’70s by making the tough decision to streamline its business and become a specialist (versus the generalist it was originally set up to be, once carrying a myriad of product lines from coffee to jams to spices). competitors are entering the market. There is exponential growth to be had.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

Blog 295

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field?

Blog 292

Blog Leadership Brand Media 292

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

CEO 298

CEO Blog Delegation Covey 298

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. The brilliant writer, J.D. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? The trick is to separate the wheat from the chaff and then to put the valuable items to productive use.

Leadership 419

Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

Blog 282

Blog Brand CEO Consultative 282

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

“My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. Successful leaders focus on customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Blog 420

Blog Meyer Short-term Learning-by-Doing 420

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In other words, make the meeting meaningful, productive, and if possible enjoyable. Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. If your board members dread attending your meeting, they will be predisposed to show up with a bad attitude.

Blog 295

Blog Management CEO Brand 295

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

Loyalty 399

Loyalty Blog Leadership Brand 399

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Many of my medical group clients, assume “expensive advertising” when they hear the term “marketing.” When asked “how do you market your practice?” Use lingo with which they identify.

Press Release 157

Press Release Discount PR Long-term 157

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

Blog 298

Blog Content Media Brand 298

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

Blog 411

Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 411

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion.

Blog 396

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 396

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

And when they don't deliver, or deliver an inferior product because it is beyond their scope, or capabilities, it further erodes the relationships with other departments, managers and each other. Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability. You ask how people feel when they get told no.

Blog 329

Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 329

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

What marketers seem to be missing is that Boomer women are actually outspending younger generations online — and not on the products that might come to mind when you picture the 50+ set. They are buying beauty products, electronics, experiences, vacations, and health products.

Marketing 8

Marketing Freedman Forrester Fashion 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master. If a conflict does flair up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

Blog 412

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 412

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

CEO 8

CEO Innovation Pharmaceuticals Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. Disruptive products and services were, by definition, cheaper, lower quality, and lower margin. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt.

Christensen 8

Christensen Finance Innovation B2B 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. To generate publicity that allows them to solicit broad feedback on their beta product.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I'm hopeful that today's comments will help us all process things in a healthier fashion while not forgetting the sacrifices that have been made for us. link] mikemyatt Hi Erin: Thanks for sharing your memories of that day, and your prayers for all affected. Best wishes Erin.

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Businesses are more profitable and productive when they act ethically, treat their staff well, and communicate better with their customers, according to the latest Lady Geek Global Empathy Index. Many British firms have been slow to recognize the direct correlation between corporate empathy and growth and productivity. Consumer Goods.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Asset Management Chemicals Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. And by using these values, we re-ran baseball history, in a very simple fashion, 10,000 times, in what is known as a Monte Carlo simulation. After doing this, we got a distribution of streaks, which we could compare to the real world.

Management 13

Management Fashion Long-term Sports 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

Company 8

Company Finance Real Estate Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. The discipline they brought to these often loosely-run businesses drove much of the post-war productivity boom. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see.

Engineering 8

Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

This can occur because you’re leveraging the investments of time, money and efforts made by someone else who now doesn’t value them in the same fashion they once did. In today’s market you can buy anything from a single note to an entire portfolio of debt (both performing and non-performing) at deep discounts.

Real Estate 302

Real Estate Company Brand Operations 302

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

We find that over the last decade, global flows of goods, services, finance, people, and data have contributed at least 10% of world GDP, adding $7.8 For businesses, these open platforms create efficient global markets with a huge base of potential customers and built-in ways to reach them. trillion in 2014 alone.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain GDP Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Let's think about the way that changes our modes of production. Size once gave organizations purchasing power.

Porter 17

Porter Mass Marketing Supply Chain Retail 17

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

Development 8

Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Most of the funds in which Kauffman invested failed to beat public market indices, despite the higher-risk nature of their work. The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition.

Venture Capitalist 15

Venture Capitalist Christensen Incubator Porter 15