N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. I also enjoyed your thoughts on the power of paying attention to the landscape.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2011

The problem limiting this manager's potential is often embedded in his or her power style. In my new book, Power Genes , I explore the link between a person's family history and the power style this person frequently displays on the job. Scarcity issues within the family system are at the heart of the Pleaser power style.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Opportunity's investment in an agricultural processing plant, which enhances the value of poor farmer's crops and provides year-round access to new markets, achieved 30 percent higher yields and an average income increase of 50 percent over last season for our farming clients. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. To understand the power of comparison, let me retell this famous old advertising story. IKEA is a company that exemplifies the power of strategic clarity. On the way back, they saw a blind man begging for money.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Posing that question continues to be a powerful way to catalyze important strategic conversations. Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. These types of processors power huge computer servers, which play vital roles in companies’ day-to-day operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Drawing on lessons from the auto industry, banking and beyond, he offered provocative prescriptions for coping in a world in which “the real challenge is to decide what you are doing” in the face of tremendous “technological change or market change.”. But, as was his wont, Drucker didn’t just provide answers. What does the customer value?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

" [link] mikemyatt Great catch Anna – Humor is something we could all use more of in our lives… [link] mikemyatt There is great wisdom in understanding the power of brevity. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. I have made my personal definition.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Reading the banner headlines about family businesses gone sour — Market Basket , Rollins , L’Oreal , among others — people often conclude that conflicts in family businesses spiral out of control like mighty tornadoes that destroy everything in their paths. The seven stages: 1) Interests diverge.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. Start a blog.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. This is because the internet ….

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