N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

Many times it is simply because companies have been doing the same things, in the same ways, and for the same reasons for so long, that they struggle with the concept of change. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? or my personal favorite, “We need to focus on our core business.”

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! You don’t have to rip off the band-aid and do it all at one time.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

There are many nutrients that we need on a daily basis to keep our bodies running efficiently ona a daily basis, not to mention long-term. Fish, in particular, has long been associated with being an excellent brain boosting food. Protein is known to keep you satisfied for longer periods of time.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. I longed to spend my days being left alone by the “powers that be&#.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. Having a reactive board is not good enough for a company as recognizable as HP. that focuses on customers and innovation. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

But they also know that reputations can damaged by more than the operational risks that can be managed with functional redundancies, or the financial risks that can be countered by hedging, investing in futures markets, and global currency diversification. This finding mirrors the results of Edelman’s annual Global Trust Barometer.)

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

The uncertainty-avoidance measure was originally created by Geert Hofstede through a cultural survey of more than 100,000 IBM employees around the world and subsequently confirmed in additional global surveys. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet look through the 22-page " Proposal for Expanding the Dialogue around the Ideas of Muammar Qadhafi " that Monitor prepared in 2007, and it sure sounds like public relations: As is the case of many individuals who are prominent actors in the world, Qadhafi is well known but is poorly understood, particularly in the West.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

based expert in advertising and public relations, where she found meaning in her work she honed in on balance and autonomy : “First is balance. When that happens your work is naturally appreciated day-to-day and over the long term. Variety: Development, seeking new opportunities to learn and grow professionally.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

And those that deal with public relations challenges regularly have still been caught off guard by a customer insurgency. ” Marvin Chow, VP of Global Marketing at Google, emphasizes how important it is to create a vision and then build and show momentum. But these days, crises have become a regular state of affairs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In a recent Corporate Executive Board survey, sales executives' top terms for their marketing colleagues included "paper pushers," "academic," and perhaps worst of all, "irrelevant." Management has long called for sales and marketing to bury the hatchet, but the requests often lack urgency and are generally met with indifference.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2011

Translation: The funds will be spent on causes like global development and global health. Know how much the humanitarian sector spends right now on advertising to the public — you know, the way "Got Milk?" . $50 Imagine SuperBowl ads that tell you to think differently about charity.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

Empire Avenue highlights a pervasive trend that will likely influence the business world in the long term. David Armano is a Executive Vice President, Global Innovation & Integration at Edelman Digital , the interactive arm of Edelman, the world's largest independently owned public relations firm.

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Tim Milburn

MAY 8, 2014

After she was selected for the first wave of layoffs at a major food company, a member of the Public Relations department did a smart thing. Be open to alternatives, even if they’re not directly related to your current career path. She turned out to be more successful in sales than she had been in media relations.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

We started with focus groups drawn from both our graduate class at Northwestern University and a global high-potential program we run at Aon. Getting to know colleagues in legal, public relations, and policy provided Brian insight into strategic concerns that few of his fellow engineers were aware of.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

Two, working globally stretches human abilities to adapt to different cultures and different situations. Get it done and get it done now is a real challenge that may not set up organizations for long term success. Global economics can determine survivability of neighborhood businesses. John Baldoni : Trust yourself.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2011

The biggest problem with business, in a one-sentence capsule, is: People exhibit misplaced priorities and impatience… seeking profit and power, possessing unrealistic views of purpose, and not fully willing to do the things necessary to sustain orderly growth and long-term success. Running a small business is tough.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Adam Goldstein, President of Royal Caribbean Cruises and the Acting Global Chair for Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), acknowledges that workplace hierarchy is a big factor in an employee’s likelihood of interrupting the person who’s in charge of a meeting.“There’s

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2016

It also helps for long-term planning. Yet, IT was also being tapped for a major organization-wide undertaking to integrate our United Kingdom and European systems and processes into a single global system. For example, senior leaders of IT and marketing should touch base weekly on the key projects they are working on together.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

To accelerate the pursuit of knowledge, Twitter has piloted a program called Data Grants offering access to segments of their real-time global trove to select groups of researchers. Consider which data would be easy to share and which data will require long-term effort. Think who could benefit from this information.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 6, 2013

In the long run, the price is both power and credibility. but what is happening is that every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. It can also regulate both the business and social agenda of organizations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Life-long learning is important in becoming a good leader for each day brings new experiences that put your knowledge, skills, and attitude to a test. Most articles speak on team work but when dealing with concept of leadership they speak only in terms of individual , But yours for the first time is thought provoking.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

I have long believed in eating my own cooking. When I ran the Talent Management division of a large global consulting firm after I left GE, I realized that these consultants were working from concepts that were academic vs. real life. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This outgroup trash talking has long had a place in marketing, although sometimes in subtler forms. Adams and Clinton both represent an elite of long standing that’s less penetrable than a “money elite”; it’s intellectual, cultural, and verbal. In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Simpson: In her Convention speech, Clinton said about Trump, ”He’s taken the Republican Party a long way from ‘Morning in America’ to ‘Midnight in America.’ But beyond each individual election, the long-term trend is clearly negative. In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S.

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