N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Consider the methods that Megan Megale used to get in touch with the people she knew would support her daughter’s remarkable project. Related posts: What is your connector style (and what does it say about you)? Book sales have contributed more than $600,000 to these charities. I think about it every day.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

By testing your marketing campaign, you gain more time, money and experience for future projects. Related posts: The Marketing Mix Made Easy to Understand and Use While creating your annual marketing plan, using a combination of. Whatever you do, keep in mind that ongoing testing is critical to your company’s success in the future.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Way back in 1793 women could not hold patents so she passed the concept to Eli Whitney who got all the fame and glory. Now think about the women close to you.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

What if the costs exceed projections, and the benefits fall short of projections? Have you sought counsel and/or feedback before making your decision? Conduct a Cost/Benefit Analysis : Do the potential benefits derived from the decision justify the expected costs?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

I am working on a consulting project where we have run into "Crazy", We had started down the path you outlined here, but we appreciate the clarity of your message. Agree wholeheartedly about positive conflict, though [link] mikemyatt Hi Bob: Thanks for your comment and I'm glad we're in agreement.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The use of a project vision is what many projects are missing. The timescale for a project vision is shorter than at the organizational level, but it should be used to create the future-picture of what the project's results should look like. Thanks for presenting this concept so well.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.”

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Communicate Openly Even if the only answer you have about the future of a project is, "We don’t know," taking the time to communicate that to your team lets them know that you consider them integral and when there is more information, you will be willing to share that, too.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

a 12 month project. I now own two small construction companies, I believe this industry could actually change to commission//Salary. As we grow, I will create this type of pay structure. Salary, with the abillity thru bonuses or commissions.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So, if the circumstances aren’t dire this might sound like, “If I had a better idea of what was going on, I’d be able to strategize with you on a work-around solution,” or, if the stakes are nice and high, “Without a better idea of what’s going on, the entire project is in jeopardy—which includes our team.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I have to weigh out the fact that I’m needed to manage the State Fair as a project against the reality that my balancing of job, life and love could use some work of its own. Personally, I have some decisions to make about how I’m going to spend my professional time this year.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

He found me through his network, contacted me through Facebook, and we started and completed a project for him. I connected again with him on Facebook through the online version of that same political group, and I let him know what I do for a living. Recently, his company needed a web designer.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

I do know that what I project out into the Universe will come back to me. And where did this belief originate? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. Faith in abundance has become a part of my cellular makeup.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

But I have been doing people and project management for years. And project management is applying common sense to get things done from common people. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. And I believe that management is about applying common sense. I have recently started blogging.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. In my case. I work with a small group of leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Meanwhile, he took an interest in the project I described in the presentation, and followed up to see how it was doing. For example, a client of mine in customer service volunteered for the company's annual community project. For example, early in my career my boss arranged for me to rehearse a presentation with her boss.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. but you’ll not find that here. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy).

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Richard Lorenzen Since we're a public relations agency that focuses on earned media, we've seen firsthand how integrating owned content and earned content can become a powerful combination for driving traffic and leads. This is where you should devote 80% of your project time. Just do it. Eva Hatzenbihler Know your market!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project. With strong will, and relentless enthusiasm, he pursued his goal and achieved it.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The more prominent among these include the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars which provides research support to deserving scientific projects, the Chang Jiang Scholars Program aimed at attracting distinguished visiting professors, and the Thousand Talents Plan aimed at luring back top Chinese researchers from abroad.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Sarah Windham, senior public relations manager in global tools and storage at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., She found partners, attracted financing, and cultivated a community of internal supporters. It lit a fire under her. is a lot like Atis.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Accountability : Any new ideas should contain accountability provisions. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

“If your boss’s boss wants you to take on a project, he should talk to your boss, and then your boss should talk to you,” Claman says. Early in his career, Josh worked at a boutique New York City–based public relations agency. “Those are the norms, but it doesn’t always happen that way.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I began to realize that regardless of my client’s size or market focus, from early stage to small business to enterprise, I was constantly having to deal with the same challenges in thinking and planning, before we could focus on the project objectives. As humans we are Natural Born Gravity Machines.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In Benjamin Franklin's own words, "I conceived the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral perfection. As Bre Pettis once said…"There are three states of being; Not knowing, Action and Done" M [link] Avil Beckford Mike, Once again a great post.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

If you don't have consistent data and results to prove your expertise, and I don't mean one project, but multiple for many years, then don't practice. If you can prove the results, like improved market share, increased employee engagement, increased customer retention, then you have proven you know what you are doing.

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