N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 14, 2021

So, we draw on very diverse examples of innovation – from science through to sports and from architecture through to social innovation – and the framework is really meant to help anybody who is facing challenges and looking to come up with original solutions. It influences what we pay attention to and how we make sense of the information.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

Local crime increases after public sporting events. In commercial, industrial, and government applications—in the real-world usage of machine learning to predict—it's known as: Predictive analytics —Technology that learns from experience (data) to predict the future behavior of individuals in order to drive better decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images. A New Type of Local Partner.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 26, 2010

I am a technology lover. I sometimes watch too much TV, and sports radio or music is often on in my car. Our devices and services and technology may allow us to get one more thing done, make one more phone call, connect with one more person, but when are you taking time to put all of that activity into context?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

The best manifestos are so emotionally charged that their catalytic influence can endure for centuries. We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. That goes for business and sports.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 2, 2012

The best manifestos are so emotionally charged that their catalytic influence can endure for centuries. We believe we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products that we make and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution. That goes for business and sports.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level? Who’s in Charge [.] I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

Online shopping for groceries, clothes and other essentials has become more prevalent than ever, and remote working with the help of technology is more widespread increasingly widespread. Partnering with influencers can be a great place to start.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

  After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?    When his company was just about to run out of cash, his engineers rigged a Smart car with Tesla batteries and he convinced the executives of Daimler Benz to license his technology.   Very sweet.    Not very practical though. 

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 27, 2011

General Electric and HCL Technologies provide a good counter example. GE is known for its diversity and ability to function competitively in many markets. At HCL Technologies, and India-based IT company, the corporate culture springs at least partly from a broader Asian idea of cooperative action. Many-market organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While the aforementioned qualities are certainly admirable, they are only valuable if they influence or create action. Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. Are you a master of strategy? Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game. I Think Not.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. One of LinkedIn’s 2017 ‘Top Voices’ among all Influencers. Former SVP at Citi in both marketing and business development roles.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2014

For example, in the ‘70s, IBM was convinced that the real profits in the personal-computer (PC) market would come from the manufacture of hardware. Taking the same set of facts available to IBM, he constructed a vastly different narrative anticipating that technological advances would continuously drive down the cost of hardware.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Each display showed complex statistical formulas, data visualizations, and excerpts from research papers presented at this year’s MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. I’ve studied the posters and scanned the papers and am struck by how temporally exacting the leading edge of sports analytics has become.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

After spending the weekend at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference , “quantifying chemistry”—identifying those talents, attributes and combinatorial skills that make a team play so much better than a group of talented individuals—has clearly become the new Holy Grail of sports analytics.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt. I met the band at this inflection point.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Clearly the thriving film market needs to shift to a culture that bases decisions on data — not gut checks.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Location-aware technologies will force a greater degree of engagement on a format that had historically been passive, impersonalized and certainly without any extensions. But what are the implications of this for marketers today? Media planning will change, as social signals will heavily influence media planning decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Event marketing is currently a very expensive and sloppy process in most firms because the relevant information is fragmented, difficult to assemble, and the “database” is often a pile of business cards. GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

But they know, at least subconsciously, that 42 years after the Title IX legislation sent American women in droves onto the sports field and then directly to dominance in higher education, only 4.6% And yet the basic truth is that business is not yet really a co-ed sport. Many hold deeply satisfying careers themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Leading disk-drive manufacturers found it nearly impossible to maintain their success when the technology and market structure began to change. In other words, their previous success meant that employees failed to challenge the once-successful strategy—that strategy was instead challenged by new market entrants.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

We see rivalries in sports, business, school, and basically any arena where there is competition. Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. Our goal was to determine whether, how, and why feelings of rivalry between competitors influenced their propensity to take risk.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. With knowledge and practice, associates gain confidence. With confidence, they become passionate performers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2014

Winning Friends and Influencing People How Advanced Socialbots Have Infiltrated Twitter MIT Technology Review Ah yes, those pesky Twitter bots. The worry," according to the Tech Review, "is that automated bots could be designed to significantly influence opinion" about such things as politics and products.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

In this glowing yet skeptical-in-all-the-right-places article, Jason Fagone introduces readers to the SpeedForm, a shoe made in a bra factory that just might be Under Armour''s best chance at chipping away Nike''s 40% hold on the athletic shoe market. Scientists Seek to Help Advertisers Capitalize on How We Watch Sports The Guardian.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

We compete with other kids in sports. In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. Sure there are major differences in values and governance — and thus a true competition of ideology and influence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Marketers often distinguish between paid, earned, and owned media. Companies either pay to deliver content to an audience or try to earn coverage and exposure from reporters and influencers. We can see how content, community, and context come together in the owned media strategies of today’s most innovative marketers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2012

This includes information that we choose to publish ("I'm a small business owner in Florida."), information that others publish about us ("Sarah is a great team player."), and information that is aggregated and shared behind the scenes without our knowledge ("Jonathan spends 400 minutes on sports websites and $300 on specialty foods per month.").

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