N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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Management Craft

JUNE 7, 2012

They may seem like a short-term priority but in reality, they’re not aligned with long-term success. It doesn’t deter us from proceeding, we just need to learn how to manage the risk. Anticipating what’s to come, preparing for it and not taking it personally make it much easier to manage with minimal disruption.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Some are short-term, meant for immediate action and achievement. Others are long-term and involve multiple stepping stones to get there. Where do I see myself in the short term (1-2 years) and long term (5+ years)? For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. Most importantly, cutting across all these initiatives, we created the network of senior and mid-level managers to connect and inspire people to get engaged in innovation. Building an agile network.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? The #1 characteristic that I believe hiring managers seek in a candidate is flexibility. Initiative.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Early in my career, a colleague suggested that we should jointly conduct a high-priced workshop for female professionals. The proposed workshop would be in the small Southern city where she lived, far from any connections I had at the time. But during our first call, I pushed her: Do you have a client base that would sign up for this?

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six Strategies for Boosting Morale by Kevin Eikenberry on November 1, 2010 in Leadership , Learning A participant from a workshop I led several years ago posed a question to me last week. Make it a long term goal.

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Morale Strategy Short-term Workshop 190

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market. Demand quickly bounced back.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? There is perhaps one place where this paradigm still exists: the gym. .

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. There was this whole world out there of nonprofit management practices."

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Case Study Banking Participative Training 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The crisis exposed the fallacies of measuring success in monetary terms and left many leaders with a deep feeling of unease that they were being pulled away from what I call their True North. As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it.

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Christensen Self-aware Short-term Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

It seemed as though everybody from the best-known software giants to basic industrial parts providers was marketing a “latest technological breakthrough” — even if it amounted to little more than a new sensor attached to an old piece of equipment. The real challenge concerned the implications for employees.

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Operations Lean Manufacturing Technology Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

day, scale-focused workshops and related activities. But the Scalerator is very different from your typical startup accelerator: in our program, startups of any sector or age are accepted only if they have already demonstrated real market traction, high levels of ambition, and have a significant ownership stake.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

They pay upwards of $300K to $1 million to consultancy firms that conduct market analyses and in-depth need-finding, identify new opportunities, generate promising ideas, and, often, develop ideas into working prototypes. The client company then refines these concepts and prototypes and takes them to market. A Different Approach.

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Innovation Company Entrepreneur Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

Only a minority of firms is well ahead in planning and preparing a UK market strategy. At the recent Brexit Workshop we held for clients — in this case, 19 UK heads of some of the world’s largest multinational firms — 10 of them had not started or had only just begun planning for Brexit. How to Plan for Brexit.

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Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Unfortunately, one can get caught in a trap of being on the short end of the equation. These pointers are offered to help manage time and resources. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. ” Sizing you in terms of immediate benefit to them, they either probe further or move on. Now I Want _.

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Committee Learning-by-Doing Consultative Budgeting 54

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Your organization’s growth opportunities fall into four different categories, and in order to develop your business in a commercially sustainable manner, you need four specific types of project manager to pursue them. The Four Types. In the following, we further explain the characteristics of each of the different types.

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Project Management Diversity Document 8

ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create additional, in-depth training programs for managers. When a potential HR discrimination issue arises, it will likely be brought to the attention of one of your managers first. Consider sponsoring employees for paid certifications and workshops. Unfortunately, neither are going to change in the near term.

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Tips Human Resources Software Training 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable. In both cases, the assignment was clear, the duration short but intense.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ve compiled a short list of 5 things you thought you already knew about leadership, but may not be putting into practice. Knowledge of leadership theories and skills may be formally gained by enrolling in leadership seminars, workshops, and conferences. Leaders are always in the limelight.

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