N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. The only thing that spinning a bunch of plates insures is that you expend lots of energy in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Ultimately the best way to insure your staff has influence is to model the correct behaviors and to make sure that you mentor them in said behaviors as well. 4mclayman the word "influence" is one of the more tricky ones to define in the world of Social Media. Thanks for stopping by David. This post hits the nail on the head.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

That said, it is nonetheless safe to say that CEOs who find a way to focus their efforts on values, vision, mission, strategy, team building, innovation, networking, and branding will be the CEOs who achieve the highest and most sustainable levels of success. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. They understand the difference between raw data and useful information. I Think Not.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 15, 2012

With 15 years of marketing experience and an MBA Degree, Debbie developed her marketing expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the non-profit arena, and the insurance industry. Eric: What personality traits are ideal for a marketing leader ?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While they are careful to insure that their brands are visible to the right constituencies, they simply won’t allow overexposure. You may also notice that politicians who confuse their real job with that of a media celebrity will lose the respect of their constituency and taint their effectiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

BullDog Reporter’s Daily Dog Media, News and Intelligence for PR Pros. ** N2′s Top pick for the latest information from the PR world. MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&#

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

For many, things like travel insurance became problematic, but with remote work scarcely having been more popular, are we likely to see a similar boom in digital nomadism? The rise in digital nomadism. The pandemic has given many of us a glimpse of the nomadic lifestyle, albeit obviously without the travel.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. In most cases the answer is no it’s not…however this is often times exactly how the decision is made. Priority number two is team building and talent management. That’s about it.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. They don’t lurk in the shadow-lands of the ethereal and esoteric, they become reality. [link] Becky Robinson Mike, the first thought that came to my mind is social media. Focus on value creation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Feed them, make them comfortable, insure that they don’t feel that their time was wasted or that they didn’t have the opportunity to be heard - have them leave looking forward to the next meeting. Rather be crisp in your delivery and be specific about the issues at hand. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2019

If you run a small business, it’s highly likely that you can’t offer such benefits as health insurance and retirement plan to your employees. Graduates will not decline your offer just because you can’t pay for dental insurance and vision care. If you don’t provide insurance or other perks, just state it clearly. Business trips.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

My challenge to you is this…set the chinning bar very high for yourself by reevaluating your goals and objectives to insure that you are on a path towards significance. I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2015

Life insurance is – or should be – a central element in most households’ financial planning. Yet life insurance sales have been on a steady decline for years. According to LIMRA , the life insurance industry trade association, the number of individual holders of life insurance in the U.S. million to 9.7

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

However, innovations in the neurosciences to developments in social media have revealed that profitability should no longer be relegated to sales figures and profit margins alone. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

The politically correct assault has invaded classrooms, the media, the work place, federal, state and local government, the judiciary, the church, the military, and even casual discussions with friends and family. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

A big insurance company I know of wants to design a radical new future, so they have committed significant resources to large-scale innovation. But the board and executive committee are asking the innovation team all the wrong questions — questions that will kill any innovation project.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

This initial lack of commercial players and interests was critical — it allowed the formation of a network architecture that shared resources in a way that would not have occurred in a market-driven system. The “killer app” for the early internet was email; it’s what drove adoption and strengthened the network.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

The fear of getting Netflix-ed or Uber-ized is spurring big companies to dial up their investment in innovation. But as investment increases, many companies are struggling with a challenging question: how do you know whether your chosen innovation strategy is actually bearing fruit? Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. Do what works!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

The business media have had no shortage of these. Business model innovation is hard. There is another way to make money from business model innovation. To many people, this kind of change doesn’t feel like it’s real business model innovation. Take Japanese insurer Tokio Marine Holdings. Why is that?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. ” So while businesses are major contributors to escalating greenhouse gas emissions, they are also presented as offering innovative ways to decarbonize our economies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

They control costs, they oversee the social media team, they''ve built a fiefdom of IT systems to build the customer relationship, and, most of all, they obsess about the brand. But what if that insurer offered a mobile app that rides along with you as you drive, noticing that you are making complete stops and accelerating responsibly.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

How Interactive Media Can Scramble Your Brain Strategy + Business You’re sitting at a meeting checking your e-mail on your iPad or your texts on your phone. Media multitasking makes managers less thoughtful and more inclined to exercise poor judgment, Nass says. Managerial Omelet Anyone? But will regulators in Europe and the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

The idea that customers can't or shouldn't participate much in the innovation process is one barrier to creativity that companies are rapidly knocking down. Social media and the Internet, of course, are rapidly creating many of the tools to facilitate this. Rethink your innovation competencies.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. Think beyond the obvious connections to come up with something truly innovative.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. ” Here are three big companies using innovative approaches to make this crucial connection. The New Tools of Marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Flo, the woman on the Progressive Insurance ads , sends things forward an entire epoch or two. Plus, he's excellent meme-material and this allows the brand to circulate in the social media world, to join the conversation that is the new marketing. This is earned media of which other brands can only dream.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Insurers strive to lower the prices they pay while the hospital’s contract administrators attempt to preserve top-line revenues. Rather than a zero-sum negotiation, such a new contract would be a win-win for insurers, providers, and patients. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members. Selecting the Patient Population.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. If you would prefer to be a leader in terms of starting and supporting projects, then your leadership goals could focus on bringing in innovation, organizing resources, and finding funding for your company projects.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. A large insurance client of mine recently added a new data visualization tool to its business intelligence toolbox.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. Rather, they were abandoning their businesses because of bad bookkeeping.

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