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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

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FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Controlling one's emotions is part and parcel of emotional intelligence. Thanks for commenting. Thanks for provoking thought!

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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My Personal Coach

Coaching Tip

There are leadership coaches , executive coaches , life coaches , and college-application coaches. Self-improvement has always found a ready market; it's teaching with a trendier name. They parcel out their observations carefully. What about regular professionals , who just want to do well as they can?

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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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Will Moneyball Analytics Kill Loyalty and Leadership?

Harvard Business Review

The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF). Unlike for a Procter & Gamble or Unilever, Morey muses, there is no "aging curve" for marketing prowess: "We can't say that, after 50, this guy won't have another good marketing idea again.". But why not?

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Google, Don't Choose Micromanagement

Harvard Business Review

If your company had just announced a 27% increase in revenues in this market, you'd probably be quite happy. And you'd think the market would be, too. Like many other companies that have a core product line, Google is struggling to find its next market. Since the beginning, Google has had a great culture of innovation.

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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Leadership also wanted to improve service delivered to property taxpayers and municipalities. The severances team increased parcels processed per day by 175%. Make it a stretch.