N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Thanks in advance for your participation. 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. " Mike, this is the most powerful sentiment expressed thus far. Best wishes Erin. They will not be forgotten!!!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Communities of aspiration are especially powerful. One of the most common efforts has been to create affinity groups within the company for people sharing a specific identity (a “Women’s Leadership Network” for example) so that participants can mentor each other and discuss ways to overcome the shared challenges they face.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. New and emerging tools such as social media listening, user research, and journey mapping can be powerful enablers to guide CPGs digital transformation. The consumer packaged goods (CPG) landscape is in the midst of a significant shake-up.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

Recently, we surveyed participants in an Executive Education program at Harvard Business School on the practice of communication at their organizations. That simple innovation can turn a static message (a corporate announcement, a letter from the CEO) into the start of a conversation. Show your face. Cultivate conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

In one experiment, 78 participants considered a hypothetical scenario in which a well-known firm is preparing to launch a new version of its color printer. The participants, who were split into two groups, received a list of seven successive model names. percent of participants choose RoadRunner 660 as the preferred name.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2012

Technology, for a free-lancer like me, creates a powerful and not entirely mad illusion that we work in a peopled environment of rich diversity and experience. The more I participated in the ambient, informal life of the office, the more committed I became to the work of the company. A drain on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

One of the most powerful corporate growth mechanisms – and at the heart of disruption theory — is moving upmarket. Today the airlines that participate in GALs transport more than two-thirds of all international traffic. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You might well be surprised at both the mass of empirical data they gather and, on occasion, the innovativeness of a study's conception and underlying ideas. Networks can be developed consciously or arise in evolutionary fashion; either way, their value is in their production and dissemination of knowledge.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2014

Implicit in the corporate social contract, in fact, was the view that most working people would find the security they were looking for as participants in the private sector, not as wards of the public sector. Companies practicing what was once called “welfare capitalism”—not the welfare state—would meet the bulk of their needs. Freeman Jr.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

We worked with software vendor Learning Objects to create a proprietary online space where students could publish the Action Plans they develop and continuously update them in "wiki" fashion. Any system has the potential to serve people better if you are willing to measure, follow up, adapt, and innovate. Are You Giving Up Power?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Whether it is a public company or not, every business should fashion an Annual Report. They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2011

An old-fashioned process, proposition innovation starts with companies — not consumers — and entails developing products and services that aren't based on consumer feedback or profiles. In most of these fashion houses, a single designer (sometimes, a small team) is the only source of innovation.

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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. For distinctive capabilities are inherently cross-functional.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, recognizing the value of participating in the most powerful medium on the planet by getting in the game is a good thing, but it’s an even better thing when coupled with a plan. link] mikemyatt Again, thank you for the kind words Awinash and I hope I've helped in some fashion. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They embrace innovations, while keeping the best traditions. Change is innovative. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better. Participated In It. Innovated It… and Teach You Why. by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2012

Nick and I knew one thing for certain: old-fashioned, beat-the-drum marketing was not going to work here. She embodied a less-is-more proposition, opening up an opportunity for the consumer to participate in the creation of the brand. Traditional branding would just bounce off of them. So we created a fictional character, Sophie.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

In normal times, leaders can allow ideas and information to move across their organization in a deliberate, structured, layer-by-layer fashion. Here, in the spirit of that model, we present four steps toward powering a turnaround project through conversation. It has to be communication of the right sort. Talk straight.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

Over the past three years, I conducted a research project on men, masculinity, and fashion. It’s more common in the arts and fashion industries, but men also choose to dress fabulously in professional organizations. More often than not, work required the participants to conform to masculine appearance norms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Sure, these young people can fashion incredible structures in Minecraft and design and test products digitally, but many are out of touch with the physical world, what we might think of as tactile intelligence. With senior engineers as mentors, participants learn by doing. Take an aircraft maker like Boeing or a steel giant like Nucor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

When it comes to discovering unmet customer needs and innovation opportunities, there’s no substitute for in-the-moment, in-context observation for making meaning out of the complex weave of emotion and rationality that drives consumer behavior. But it can only happen when the consumer is both a participant and observer of her own life.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, scale, and disruption of globalization is generating a strong nationalist backlash. America's rising nationalism is taking a different form but it is powerful nonetheless. The positive consensus toward globalization that defined the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. Just look at how GE is investing in the industrial internet with powerful plant management software such as Predix – all the better to collect information and make rapid adjustments according to market indicators.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Protecting the Powerful. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Before I go any further, today’s rant should not be construed as a call for elitism, but rather a call for authenticity, innovation and professionalism. As leadership advisors and coaches we counsel our clients on the need for change and innovation, but have we become the proverbial shoe maker without shoes?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Passed by a large bi-partisan majority of Congress, the JOBS Act directed the agency to simplify many aspects of corporate fundraising and initial public offerings, and to enable individual investors to participate in equity campaigns for small startups. Tapping the power of the Internet, crowdfunding has proven wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Twitter connects 200 million participants 24/7 on an open network that enables instantaneous delivery and nearly instantaneous redistribution. Participation is easily justifiable. The less time it takes, the more likely we'll participate. So they participated in a record-breaking fashion. And it's not that close.

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Technology Media Open-book Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2015

Post-heroic leaders recognize that the key to success is not adhering to hierarchy or position power, but mastering a complex set of seemingly contradictory organizational dynamics—autonomy and shared decision-making, individuality and teamwork. From power over to power with. You and Your Team.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The Brexit referendum highlighted the often chronic over-centralization of British life, with regions untouched and unloved by Westminster registering their discontent in dramatic fashion. This has created a powerful current of democratic disenchantment.” Its constitution makes Westminster supreme.”

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