N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Toxic personalities will put a damper on morale, attempt to intimidate and/or manipulate co-workers for personal gain, and can even chase away a company’s best talent. People can do some due diligence before going to work for a compnay. Here are "9 Signs That Your Next Company Cares About Its Employees."

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? I always appreciate your kind words. pastortom2022 Great post Mike.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

Department of Labor Home Page Tom Peters, The Man, The Myth, The Legend, Change Guru TUTs Adventurers Club: Explore the power of thought & creative visualization to manifest dreams! The Secret - The Law of Getting What You Want The U.S.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 7, 2010

First, let's assume you've done your due diligence on the process with your successor. When it came time to pass the baton, he could not accept the fact that his successor, whose strengths were strategy and marketing, was not as great a communicator. Let him or her begin to make a difference while you're still at the company.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. I longed to spend my days being left alone by the “powers that be&#. This due diligence included, setting a new household budget, moving investments, setting up a home equity line of credit, and finally, buying a new car (for the first time in 11 years!).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Most companies see investor relations as a one-way street. Yet investors can be a powerful strategic resource, providing not only capital but also less-biased insight into the threats and opportunities that a company encounters. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2016

Pay close attention to ethics and research a company before joining. The current data show that a company’s behavior can affect a manager’s career even after leaving the organization. A stigmatized manager can appear less of a risk in the job market if there are multiple credible arbiters to vouch for his or her integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

And yet when companies suddenly decide to “get more innovative,” starting hackathons, idea competitions, and accelerator programs, they typically forget to address all those things that kill perfectly good ideas after they hatch. At the storage and software company EMC Corp., In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. Yet even with all that knowledge and effort, many private equity companies still don’t do a good job when it comes to deciding whether to keep the CEO in place or select a new CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Where repeat business and revenue had once been the dominant loyalty metrics, the firm began analyzing the overlaps and intersections between its “best” customers and social media and web comments about the company’s service. These customers were given perks, privileges and the power to offer certain promotions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Foreign companies, foreign governments, and Iranians expected to see improvements to Iran’s investment climate after implementing a nuclear deal and sanctions relief in the country. But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. The Challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

When it comes to launching new products, should your company be a pioneer or a follower? Research I conducted together with John Joseph of Duke University shows that both approaches can be successful — what matters most is not simply timing but whether a company tailors its innovation strategy to whichever approach it adopts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

A partnership with Starbucks elevated the mobile payment company Square to a whole new level. Specifically, closing a deal requires identifying three key stakeholders who have the power to influence the decision: champions, decision makers, and blockers. The ask: invest $35 million for exclusive bundling rights to the US market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

If you’re not turning your company into a “math house” you’re headed for serious trouble. Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. On both counts.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

We’ve spoken to leaders who express such a vision — and companies such as Amazon and Alibaba are already beginning to make it a reality. But although conventional due diligence for a deal involves deep market research and repeated rounds of interviews with founders and key customers, Correlation focuses on documentary information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

And if a client is late, how should you address it, especially if you want to work with this company again? “When you’re on your own freelancing for a big company, there is a fundamental power imbalance,” says Caitlin Pearce, director of advocacy and member engagement there. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

M&A does boost companies’ growth and value, our new research shows, but the bet-the-company deal isn’t the route to success. By examining dozens of variables, we found the levers that explain more than 80% of the up-drift and down-drift on what we have dubbed the “power curve” of corporate performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

If you’ve been at your company awhile, “it may be that your scope and responsibilities have expanded but your title is the same, and you’re still being paid a level below what you’re currently doing,” Neale says. Use resources like LinkedIn and Glassdoor to look at the titles of peers at different companies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In a room filled with marketers and developers, the product manager exploded: "What could I say or show you that would get you to change your mind?". They've ticked all the right boxes (otherwise the meeting would never have taken place) but they've utterly failed to do the due diligence around what gets the key decision-maker to say "yes.".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

With due diligence and decent design, these partnerships can go beyond good results and energize organizations that have become too comfortable or complacent with everyday routines. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. artpartner-images/Getty Images. Think “lean pilots.” ” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

If you'd like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. The company was building only half as many housing units this year as it had during recent boom times. The Power of Customer Costing. That's quite all right," Tommy said.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

A market that wants a great product (Product-Market Fit). A well formulated Go-To-Market Strategy. As for distribution, “smart marketing” can turn faulty launch distribution planning into buzz-worthy spin and drive more sales. Go-To Market Strategy is, in essence, the launch. A great product. All of the above.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

But the crowdfunding jewel is fool's gold, and is inherently incapable of harnessing "people-to-people power" and the "wisdom of crowds" to "democratize access to capital for entrepreneurs" in order to "create wealth and make things happen," as crowdfunding sites publicly proclaim. Due diligence is too expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. The business rationale is clear enough: The LGBT community in the United States represents almost $800 billion in buying power. Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence. The CEI scores Fortune 500 companies and the 200 largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

Company flags fly next to Pride flags. The business rationale is clear enough: The LGBT community in the United States represents almost $800 billion in buying power. Again, being bankers, the obvious first step was due diligence. The CEI scores Fortune 500 companies and the 200 largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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