N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2020

But with advances in technology, today it’s possible to get it done in days, not months or years, and take immediate action on the insights to boost your bottom line. Transitioning from a one-size-fits all marketing strategy to high-level segmentation, with the eventual goal of one-on-one personalization, simply won’t happen overnight.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

– -Oscar Wilde. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The Zigzag Principle : The Goal Setting Strategy that will Revolutionize Your Business and Your Life by Rich Christiansen Have you ever set your sights on the top of a mountain and then started your ascent by heading straight through the trees and up the sheer cliffs? He was General Manager at both Mitsubishi Electric and About.com.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. While most of the private equity companies are private, a few like Blackstone Group, KKR, Carlyle Group, and Apollo Global Management are traded on stock exchanges.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

While that formative decade is long and dynamic for each person; in a companion post I've offered some observations on the differences between Generation Z and Generation After-Lehman ; there are some consistencies in how best to manage and motivate excellent twenty-somethings. A simple tip for a manager is to stand while you're at your desk.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

Many of the world’s biggest companies operate in silos — for example, their customer service and sales departments do not share a customer relationship management (CRM) database , and employees don’t collaborate around the customer to ensure a powerful customer experience. That’s not a great customer experience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Tackling climate change — and thus keeping the world inhabitable — is an achievable goal, but it will become prohibitively expensive if we wait to act. A key target for Ceres’ work, and the main audience at the conference, is the group of institutional investors who manage tens of trillions of dollars in assets for long-term performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

.” Notice that these questions do not ask exactly what that purpose is, whether it is to save the environment, advance human health, push the technological frontier, or provide cheap and efficient energy for all. fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2013

For millennia people have run by feel, an "art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain," says Christopher McDougall in his anthropological study of the topic. It could create increased autonomy through self-knowledge, and revolutionize, again, management, and the way they live and work.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Have collaboration goals and processes well-defined so that expectations MATCH. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

As a hedge fund manager who applied data-driven trading strategies once said, “You can spend endless time and resources only to find eventually a bug in your data.”. Decision making Information & technology' Predictive analytics often sounds a bit like quantum mechanics: fiendishly complex to look at and wildly counter-intuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Why is the goal of a more collaborative and innovative organization so elusive? He began with a simple, direct question to the people closest to the markets, his sales and account managers: “If from now on you could serve only one segment, which one would you choose … and why?” ” And there lies the problem.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I have found that with self-awareness comes clarity about my goals and vision for my life. They can focus on the goals they have set before themselves and not get distracted by the noise of the world. The goal of successful leaders is to make a few fundamental decisions which simplify thousands of future decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

In an effort to move from the Wild West world of shoot-from-the-hip decision making to a more evidence-based model, companies realized that they would need data. It is important to note that the starting point for how to think about this problem is the story and it communication goals, not the data. Data itself isn''t the solution.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Companies and global governing bodies set visionary global goals. Goals matter. To start, the UN, in a parallel with the climate negotiations, released in September the ambitious Sustainable Development Goals. And we’ve seen a lot of them this year.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Long term commitment in a world where the technology is advancing almost on a daily basis is difficult to maintain. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. The overall goal: to ensure at least 100,000,000 Americans had access to broadband speeds of 100 Mbps by 2020. Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

But, he also knew that the ability to connect so many people offered a huge opportunity to stay true to his goal of melding his career and his intention to make a positive difference in the world. Like the poet Mary Oliver's beautifully haunting question : "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. The best analysis of the resource scarcity mega-trend came from asset manager Jeremy Grantham. China, China, and China. The greening of the supply chain.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

At the same time, technologies like selfie sticks, Fitbits, and wearable video cameras are making people comfortable monitoring their own calorie consumption, sleep patterns, heart rate, friends, family, and daily experiences. Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

So what makes artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) champions confident that their technologies will be immune to comparably counterproductive outcomes? For too many managers, the technology’s costs often rival its benefits. They shouldn’t be so sure. Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The executive orders he has signed in his first two weeks in office (and the manner in which those orders have been issued) already undermine that goal. This week a European technology business I’ve invested in was due to come to San Francisco, where I live, to launch its first product targeted at the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

When Agile software development was born in 2001, it articulated a set of four critical principles to elevate the craft of software development and improve engineering and product manager motivation. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Working software over comprehensive documentation.

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