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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. Some of those market trends are listed below, we all know them well, but have we all adapted our organizations? Developments of global network organizations. Great attention for innovation.

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On a Consumer Watershed

Marshall Goldsmith

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. These new challenges include: Moving from a more hierarchical organization toward a more “networkedorganization.

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7 Conferences to Grow Your Business in 2017

Steve Farber

So, how do you avoid the conferences that make you gag and only go to the ones that make you great? They want to learn. The folks in the crowd with you are also there to learn, network, and try new things. It’s a great opportunity to meet with and learn from investors and entrepreneurs. They want to teach.

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How’s your networking working? Better if you follow the rules.

Strategy Driven

I went to a networking meeting last week hosted by a formal networking organization called Business Network International. rules for achieving positive and profitable networking results : 1. I prefer to invest the majority of my networking time with people that I do not know. These are my top 9.5

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Face-to-face networking is still the key to connections.

Strategy Driven

He wasn't going to throw me into the 10 foot deep water immediately, but he did make the impact known that I had to learn how to eat what I kill. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. Rotary has been a great organization to participate in. It is not a sales networking organization. Charlotte Area Councils.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. When we learn, we add new skills or knowledge to what we already know.

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Putting Facebook in Perspective

Harvard Business Review

Their social networks do this for them. It's why the CEO of Saatchi and Saatchi recently declared that "Marketing is dead." As I've written in earlier posts, brands need to learn how to attract people into orbit around their brand by generating social gravity. Organizations: From Hierarchies to Networks.