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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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Starting a Business for the Post-Pandemic World

Strategy Driven

American Express – The credit card company that originally delivered parcels across the country. Starting a business in the current climate is a great way to prepare yourself for success because you can’t rely on following an already laid out way of doing things. You need to innovate immediately.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Following are a few links to other posts that deal with these topics in greater detail. maybe sincerity [link] Taariq Lewis Mike, as always, a great follow-up with great insight and additional resources. Thanks for commenting.

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Unleash The Power of a Leadership Mindset: How to Develop and Cultivate It

Experience to Lead

Simply having an idea or plan and pushing it onto other team members and expecting them to follow just isn’t going to cut it. Resilience and adaptability became part and parcel of what many businesses had to do during the pandemic. This kind of leadership mindset can stifle innovation, create a blame culture and obstruct growth.

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Sometimes Cutting R&D Spending Can Yield More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. So what was going on?

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Doing Good Via Spam Protection: The Art of Leverage | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing.

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How Corporate Investors Can Improve Their Odds

Harvard Business Review

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. The philosophical divide is this: When VCs invest in an early-stage start-up, they recognize that odds are, the company will fail. All of this is right, as far as it goes.