N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

You must choose to get off the sideline and into the game, then you must choose to endure the learning curve, and finally you must choose to deploy the needed resources to be successful. The Key to Success Success or failure in social media is nothing more than making a simple set of good choices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

The students thought they were much further along in the learning curve toward workplace success than their future employers did. Our research focuses on overconfidence as people tackle new challenges and learn. As such, personal finance is something most learn by trial and error. Overconfidence Among Beginners.

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Participative Learning-by-Doing Finance Survey 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

Unfamiliar but important tasks often have a learning curve that makes how much time they’ll take to complete unpredictable. Likewise, when it comes to money, there are certain personal finance bloggers I like to read from time to time to help me stay on track.

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How To Crisis Management Learning Curve Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 Lara Galinsky, senior vice president at Echoing Green , needed to hire a finance director for the young, but growing, global non-profit. She thought the ideal applicant would be someone relatively young but with a few years of non-profit finance experience. Case Study: The hiring risk pays off. John came on board in early 2009.

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Finance Learning Curve Skills Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” Focus on learning. “Your life and your career is one big learning curve,” Johnson says. ” You miss that “dopamine rush that comes with learning and achieving.” Finances were a consideration. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI. Machine learning is a powerful tool, but it’s not right for everything.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you are great at the finances, an early-stage Excel ninja partner probably isn't be the top priority. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Different operational skills. Doing so presents its own risks.

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How To Long-term Learning Curve Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week.

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Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

While there will be a huge learning curve – and significant challenges – greater success and learning will come when the executive enters the assignment with a winning mindset, vs. a “good enough to get by” mindset. Functional programs (Finance, Marketing and Sales) can help fill in experience gaps.

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Development Advice Learning Curve Execution 120

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Finance teams, which are not known for their flexibility to begin with, often have trouble changing their traditional planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes to accommodate radically new IoT business models. By pushing a button on the device, an individual can easily order a refill from his or her pharmacy.

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Productivity Products Company Engineering 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. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

High Costs, Learning Curves. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. Rules and responsibilities within each sector of companies are changing. Each of us must ask what we can contribute and our roles in adapting to the crises.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Let's say you're a newly appointed manager learning some finance for the first time, and you're trying to improve your recall of many new terms. Does this opportunity require learning new terms, concepts, or narratives? In short, when you're on a steep learning curve, remember the forgetting curve, and then beat it.

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