Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Plan Your Finances. To ensure you don’t make any mistakes, you should estimate how much money you would need to get your business up and running. Note that you’ll have some one-time costs like purchasing equipment, getting licenses and permits, as well as doing market research and branding.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place. Want to become a better leader? Talk less and listen more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

Slow demographic growth in developed economies creates a zero-sum situation (which is part of why the licensed cabs vs Uber/Lyft contest is so heated). Implications for city leaders: Leaders should loosen restrictions so that private finance can invest in improvements to physical infrastructure, to better use what already exists.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2019

You might be the greatest widget-maker on the planet, but if the market for widgets is saturated that will not matter – it will be a struggle, up-hill, to get noticed by potential customers. But how to harness the power of satisfied clients’ goodwill? Mr. Offen is licensed to practice in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. The debate has been about enforcement and regulation of the industry. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

For the past 10 years, my research, writing, and consulting have focused on the question of how to build robust ecosystem strategies. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

With that in mind, I can see three potential scenarios for how Apple might play in the autonomous car market. A teenager old enough to drive is twice as likely to have a smartphone as they are a driver’s license. Some of them may never enter the car market, or may at least significantly delay a move toward ownership.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. Each of these shifts have consequences for how today’s multinational corporations should manage themselves.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Starting a Business From Home: How to Find Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Amy Collett , a personal branding strategist and author of You, Exemplified: The Role of Personal Branding in Your Professional Life. Networking and marketing are vital parts of building a business, so make sure you have a plan to tackle both.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Raising outside financing requires compliance with complex securities laws. The dynamics between a CEO and the investors on her board are a function of the legal arrangements articulated in the financing agreements. Issuing equity to the early team often triggers time-sensitive filings with the IRS.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Creative professionals do fare better when they’re given flexible schedules , meaningful work, and license to fail — but then, so do the rest of us. Even when they’re not interacting with clients, they should advocate for the value of their craft, teaching non-designers how to leverage it for better outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Barker had licensing deals with sports leagues to make merchandise with their logos and partnered with large brands to produce it for retail markets, and when Lance took the company over, its revenues were about £100 million. “No one really knows how to have a productive fight at work. Doing Just Fine.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

As in any large organization, the biggest challenge was how to keep this kind of long-range plan on track for a decade or more. Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. Competing in New Ways.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

It is critical that you know how to cut to the chase and hit the high points, and that you expect the same from others. Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Knowing how to work a room and establish credibility, trust and rapport are keys to successful interactions.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! It’s that strong.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. As for distribution, “smart marketing” can turn faulty launch distribution planning into buzz-worthy spin and drive more sales. But I mention them to underscore just how critical item “d” on the list is.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. At the last Congress, in 2011, Raul Castro had announced plans to introduce new market reforms and attract foreign investment. How to know where the economy is heading.

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