N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

While in the second year of my profession the great recession hit and had a significant impact on my area of expertise including venture capital, and private equity-backed technology companies. General expectation setting and maintenance is paramount to any recruitment process and especially so in a tumultuous market environment.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

What is clear from the data in these sectors is that a relatively small number of highly competitive firms have dominated each market. Instead, it’s changing primarily at those businesses that have come to dominate their respective markets, and because those firms are dominating their markets, it’s shifted the entire economy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Emerging technologies, changing demographics, the data economy, automation, and other trends-the undercurrents of radical, systemic change-are crashing into each other. Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2014

Steve’s fresh, provocative approach to marketing, […]. Management guru Tom Peters said, “When Steve Yastrow writes, I pay close attention,” and called Brand Harmony “compelling and powerful,” and We a “superb book.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” And as assembly-line technology improved, so too did its speed, which soon became a source of great stress.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services […]. He advises large, global organizations on strategy, innovation and organizational change and is recognized as a leading expert in enabling organizational renewal and growth through innovation.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 28, 2014

His experience cuts across industries and includes technology, consumer products & retail, healthcare, energy, financial services and transportation companies. His primary focus has been to help client organizations renew […]. Special Operations Command University of Chicago USSOC Western Union Whirlpool Corporation'

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

One of the best examples of this is the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. They started to throw fish around the market, perform improv acts with customers, and be comedic in an effort to enjoy what they do and prevent the job from being drudgery again.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2015

And at the 880-seat Tabor Opera House, patrons enjoyed John Philip Sousa, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera stars, Harry Houdini, and Oscar Wilde. In the same decade that Swiss watchmakers were reeling from the game-changing introduction of quartz technology, Leadville suffered a similarly profound paradigm shift.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. Hype run wild. Instead, markets have become stodgy and increasingly immune to competition.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 21, 2015

Award-winning marketing expert Linda J. Popky, the founder and president of Redwood Shores-based Leverage2Market Associates, transforms organizations through powerful marketing performance. She’s been involved with many of the Silicon Valley companies who developed and deployed the technologies that have […].

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Predictions often tell us more about the predictor’s explanatory style and values than the future. Some can be good fun.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Happy clients that go wild about you because of the surprising way you serve their needs. Yes, I will talk to my manager and see if we can do that for you.” How about, “YES, I can do some hard work for you even though it would be easier for me to just say no.” The result? Related posts: Are Your Client Delight Efforts Misplaced?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. In contrast, Musk cares about customer needs as well but only at a high level; he picks what he perceives as big important needs that haven’t been met because of technology constraints and is more of a “technology first” innovator.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. At ABC Corp, the key behaviors identified are for marketing to solicit ideas from new sources, and to use the new criteria for vetting ideas. ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made. The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Electrofishing - A pal of mine performs fisheries research in Canada and gets to catch fish all day with electricity to determine populations, tag the fish and release them back into the wild. New technology all the time. Spend all summer in the mountains and write reports on your findings in the winter. BEST JOB EVER.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Starting Your Own Business? Have you ever thought about running your own business?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. I got an (unsolicited) email offering a webinar to teach me about how to measure, and the importance of measuring, the ROI of social media. TOTAL JOKE.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

A pendulum tends to swing too far at first, and pretty soon we were in the second Wild, Wild West. We give each business unit as many resources – tech support, product management, marketing – as we can to enable them to operate as autonomously as possible. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2013

It's a murky, unclear future for the marketing agency, but one thing is for certain: things are changing at an exponential pace. An agency used to act as the executional arm of the marketing department. For over twenty years, I have had a front row seat to this revolution in marketing. How does an agency stay ahead of the curve?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

By helping local food processors produce safer and more nutritious foods, could we help create sustainable market access and better livelihoods for millions of African farmers and their families? Because PFS is helping COMACO grow, creating markets for her crops, Veronica's income is rising. Embrace technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Every day, multi-million dollar consumer electronics products suffer the consequences of poor, lazy, ineffective, uninspired, unprepared, overly-technical, follow-the-status-quo marketing. Were it not for the intense media and consumer interest in high technology, the industry would be in big trouble. The difference is marketing.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), ’ Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was a skilled executive and market innovator in the corporate world. you need to establish your own guardrails so you do not drive your company or project into the weeds.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

. “Moonshots” is the term favored by the company’s exploratory arm, known as X, which states on its website : “Our mission is to invent and launch ‘moonshot’ technologies that we hope could someday make the world a radically better place.” In fact, it was done mostly with common sense and grit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

We serve two markets that are very different but united by the common need for reliable, safe access to energy: outdoor recreationalists and low-income households in emerging markets. We found an ideal storefront near a busy market in central Bhubaneswar. Launch day was a wild success. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Therefore, in order for new identity verification approaches to be widely adopted by government and business, they will need to leverage multiple layers of currently available information and technologies to help individuals prove identity to a prospective employer, creditor, educational institution, etc. Insight Center. Sponsored by Varonis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

In the model described by Clayton Christensen, a new entrant offers substitute products using technology that is cheaper but initially inferior to products offered by mature incumbents. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

For example, wild herds of horses share the leadership role of the herd, and different horses step into the leadership role depending on the situation the herd finds themselves in. It enables the leadership to be shared which is a common theme that we see in nature. No one doubts that today’s consumer is more demanding than ever.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications. The company needed to target sales and marketing approaches to each company and potential buyer. There is still some human labor involved.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2016

I don’t mean a few quarters of sluggish growth or a one-time product flop, but a radical shift in its market, a major technology disruption, or a disastrous strategic bet that threatened the company’s very existence.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Their advice can be invaluable.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted by: Sue Lohr | February 01, 2011 at 09:44 PM The wild goat chase and the one that got away. Posted by: douglas | February 03, 2011 at 02:36 AM Numb-Bubba thought to himself, "This 'driving his goats to market' idea might need a little PDCA," and decided he'd better call his upline before he made his next trip.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Every few years the same piece of technology gets re-announced, and it's as important as ever. Its appearance marks a markets' phase transition from early adopters to mega-profits. Undo matters, in other words, because its appearance almost always signals that a market has gone from fringe to mainstream, with profits set to follow.

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