N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. A CEO, however, works through her or his team, in my case, it was 55,000 employees. On with the interview.

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. The conventional wisdom about strategy may be leading your company astray. This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets.

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Resources Industry System Strategy 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

When formulating a strategy, markets and segments are important categories to consider. But a market never buys anything. To borrow a telecom industry metaphor, a deal with a customer is the “last mile” in connecting any strategy with business development efforts and marketplace results.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

Ever since the idea of strategy came to the business world in the early 1960s, the goal of differentiation has been paramount. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis.

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IAM Productivity Products Company 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2018

The trick is, growth strategies have to fit the company’s current context, especially its brand promise and its target market. Once they have a strategy to fit the context, they can sequence out the various steps to implement it. market for e-commerce processing was saturated, went with the latter.

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Productivity Products Decentralization Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As more people depended on him, he spent his working capital, and the business failed. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. The Main Street business owner needs a different kind of capital from the high-tech entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

But like the terms "strategy" and "business model," the word "entrepreneurship" is elastic. For some, it refers to venture capital-backed startups and their kin; for others, to any small business. At a new venture's outset, its founders control only their own human, social, and financial capital. Entrepreneurs face a Catch-22.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Chemicals How To Kahneman Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

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Banking Development Policies Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Among the firms we identified as focused on the long term, average revenue and earnings growth were 47% and 36% higher, respectively, by 2014, and market capitalization grew faster as well. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. public market capitalization over this period.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

This strategy has led to strong results. Revenues have stagnated over the last few years, in part because Adam has no ambition to expand into other countries despite the relatively small size of his current market. Should he plow cash into increasing the pay of the disadvantaged people he employs, or build his working capital?

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Entrepreneur Business Model Long-term Goal 9