N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

Many successful bloggers today were not necessarily first-movers, but rather fast-followers able to leap frog the early adopters. This is a positive sign – not a foreshadowing of doom and gloom. Where Are We Now?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Many social enterprises start small and grow fast. Yet planning for future leadership needs falls between the cracks at most social enterprises. Only 39% indicated that they had identified potential successors for key positions. Leaders plead lack of time and money to make development a priority.

Banking 8

Banking Fast Follower Tools Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

By the end of the week, it had tested a prototype with this group and gotten enough positive feedback to move forward with the project. The leadership at Slack used the process to decide between two fundamentally different marketing approaches. Sprints encourage fast follow-up. Sprints force crisp decision-making.

Consensus 8

Consensus Hotels Project Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

To those of us who believe the future of the country depends on its innovative capabilities, this was hugely positive. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. He used the word "innovate" more times in his State of the Union than any other U.S.

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Policies Innovation Fast Follower Long-term 15