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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How did the brick and mortar book stores let Amazon get the jump on them? While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

This list includes books that have been selected because they are either extremely popular, frequently referred to, or groundbreaking in business literature. It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. A book that is a favorite among consultants. Ineffective companies operate only from the other two layers.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

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Why You Need a Resilience Strategy Now

Harvard Business Review

General Mills’ CEO recently blamed the winter for less-than-expected earnings , saying that “severe winter weather…disrupted plant operations and logistics…We lost 62 days of production…which hasn’t happened in decades. It might have actually generated increased revenue as well, if it meant operating while competitors couldn’t.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moore and Christensen tell us what to do, but their prescription is rarely followed. David Locke Innovation fails because of management, not the innovation. Unfortunately the approach you are taking is standard management, which in the case of discontinuous/radical/disruptive innovations fails. I look forward to hearing more from you.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies, a new book by Kamiar Mohaddes, Jeffrey B. The park, which has been operating for a decade, has created a free zone and business park to encourage multinationals to rub shoulders with researchers and startups to generate technology-driven businesses.