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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

We believe company culture is something that should be designed in a deliberate fashion as a part of any strategic planning program. By including a Culture By Design perspective in your planning approach you hedge the bet that the organization can succeed in the execution of its plans.

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Lead with a Coherent Strategy

Coaching Tip

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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First Impressions Define Your Success.

Rich Gee Group

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. Pretty soon, I’ll need hedge clippers from Black & Decker. So if someone is looking or approaching you — you might not realize that you are actually presenting yourself with a less than appealing demeanor. Unported License.

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Neither hedge fund managers, nor venture capitalists, nor mutual fund managers came anywhere close to these results. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. stock markets over Icahn’s career, it’s a simple factual assertion — the total return on the S&P 500 has substantially outstripped economic growth. But applied to U.S. Why’s that?

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Is Economics Ready for a New Model?

Harvard Business Review

In the sense that financial markets and the economy in general are far more fragile than most mainstream economists contemplated before 2008, there was a bit of unlearning done in the 1990s and early 2000s. The 1987 stock market crash was a scare. None of them brought economic devastation in the U.S. I know I believed it.

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Big Data Doesn't Work if You Ignore the Small Things that Matter

Harvard Business Review

So why do companies spend millions on big data and big-data-based market research while continuing to ignore the simple things that make customers happy? Big data is today's panacea, the great new hope for unlocking the mysteries of marketing. What If Google Had a Hedge Fund? We all have. Far from it. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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