N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc. One of the reasons I think some organizations end up charging sub-par leaders with mission critical objectives is that leaders of projects are all too often chosen based on position in their hierarchy.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So, if the circumstances aren’t dire this might sound like, “If I had a better idea of what was going on, I’d be able to strategize with you on a work-around solution,” or, if the stakes are nice and high, “Without a better idea of what’s going on, the entire project is in jeopardy—which includes our team.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial advice … Securities, Investment Banking… Today Blogs Scopulus Business Resources This site is a gateway for business information and resources for business people and professionals in large corporations to small and medium size companies in the UK.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

I have to weigh out the fact that I’m needed to manage the State Fair as a project against the reality that my balancing of job, life and love could use some work of its own. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

But I have been doing people and project management for years. And project management is applying common sense to get things done from common people. Engineering Manager with Adobe Systems). I’m not an MBA. Nor am I a writer. And I believe that management is about applying common sense. I have recently started blogging.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. The plan should include marketing and legal personnel to handle public relations efforts or comply with government regulations on publicly disclosing breaches.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. Where levels of responsibility and consequences for success or failure fall differently on various participants. In my case. I work with a small group of leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. In other words, public relations matters. In the elevator business, you can be hugely successful and highly profitable by going unnoticed.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

One such project addressed a user’s control of his personal data. He had no formal authority as a leader, operating without any title or mandate. Strategic leaders like Brian, who don’t hold positions of authority, operated in ways that were tailored to a less formal context.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He was on the creative planning team for catalyst, works with leadership development of Chick-Fil-A, and is quarterbacking many projects for well known leaders. but you’ll not find that here. He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

Gifts from the private sector can help these organizations grow, undertake projects they would otherwise be unlikely to afford, offer more job security to their employees or more incentives to their volunteers, improve their operations, and ultimately thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

They operate under tight timelines and competitive pressures. Susan, head of a division in a public relations company, has been keeping a white space date with herself for over a year. This is not the time to answer emails or tackle a long-neglected project. They're busy because their work is important.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

For example, my colleague Silvia, who works in public relations, often goes out of her way to welcome and mentor new colleagues. Having worked with her on other projects, I knew that she was passionate about bold ideas. Make Helping Others a Core Responsibility for the Altruistic. This was the story with Amanda.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

” or “What kind of projects does your team work on?” So, if you want to change careers, now is the time to start thinking about what career path would suit you best. Find friends or colleagues that work for the companies you are interested in working for. Ask them questions, such as “What does your day look like?”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Anyone who has ever launched a new initiative understands the inevitability of running into numerous barriers over the life-cycle of any project. With strong will, and relentless enthusiasm, he pursued his goal and achieved it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Atis began to work on the issue as a side project. Sarah Windham, senior public relations manager in global tools and storage at Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., It lit a fire under her. She informed the head of L’Oréal’s makeup division, who challenged her to come up with a solution. is a lot like Atis.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field. 5) Operational Transparency -. Transparency is organizational honesty. 15 Iss: 4, pp.675 675 – 687. 2, Spring 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Bennett, an operations manager, spoke up from the back of the room. That would require building an operation from the ground up — not to mention changing our name," she said. Roberta Simmons, the head of public relations, was running across the company parking lot. She had taken the reins when he retired, in 2005.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Realistic : Adopting a new idea should be based upon solid business logic that drives corresponding financial engineering and modeling. Accountability : Any new ideas should contain accountability provisions. Measurable : Any new ideas being adopted must lead to measurable objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2012

When Emma Cookson, the Chairman of the New York branch of Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH), an award-winning ad agency, and her team concocted an innovative marketing program called Homeless Hotspots , they genuinely had no sense of the furor that they'd be facing when the project launched.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Rebel Brown : I began to realize that regardless of my client’s size or market focus, from early stage to small business to enterprise, I was constantly having to deal with the same challenges in thinking and planning, before we could focus on the project objectives. As humans we are Natural Born Gravity Machines.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Pressures continue and accelerate for companies to stay in operation, become competitive, keep ahead of the marketplace and perform quality work. Provide business owners with a totally different perspective on how they can operate and be more successful. Duties, activities, tasks, behaviors, attitudes, contracting, project fulfillment.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some companies haven’t used an agency because they believe no one knows their product and the reason for operating in their space as well as they do. It's easy to put off content marketing, creating blogs, pulling resources off of other projects to create a voice around your own social and digital content. Just do it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. As Emily Yellin describes in her book Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us , “public relations” was the phrase initially used to describe customer service.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In Benjamin Franklin's own words, "I conceived the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

If you don't have consistent data and results to prove your expertise, and I don't mean one project, but multiple for many years, then don't practice. If you can prove the results, like improved market share, increased employee engagement, increased customer retention, then you have proven you know what you are doing.

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