N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? As an example, Look at Apple! But manufacturing?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr. Thanks for the great post. You're right on regarding love.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Marshall Goldsmith : I could not possibly personally coach or speak to everybody who has an interest in my work. Mike Myatt : What’s been the most rewarding aspect of your work in the leadership field?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. Great work Mike… [link] mikemyatt Hi Rob: Thanks for the kind words Rob. Hopefully this piece will spare others unnecessary brain damage. Thanks for stopping by Rob… [link] Principal (le?)

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. They get the job done, they stand out from the crowd, they don’t need identifying – you know who they are. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2021

With that in mind here are five options to consider for financing business growth. Bartering may sound old-fashioned. If you’re operating purely in the cloud, then make sure you monitor your real-world usage carefully. In many cases, however, you will be able to grow your business more quickly if you can invest in its growth.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. Thanks again for stopping by Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

link] mikemyatt Again, thank you for the kind words Awinash and I hope I've helped in some fashion. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.] Thanks for posing the great questions Awinash. Social Media Influence [.]

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2020

Ensure your finances are in order. Nevertheless, careful preparation can ensure it is a smooth operation. If these milestones are tied together with incentives, employees and managers will be more motivated to get it all done in a swift fashion. It’s a simple point, admittedly, but one that still requires plenty of attention.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

The Outward Mindset : Seeing Beyond Ourselves by The Arbinger Institute Unknowingly, too many of us operate from an inward mindset—a narrow-minded focus on self-centered goals and objectives. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2020

Parents will not be willing to risk their family finance and retirement without greater assurance of achieving the end goal—JOB OPPORTUNITY. If colleges are to resume operations in the fall, it will not be normal as they wish it to be, but rather, it will begin to reflect college-in-the-new-normal. Parents are in control.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Another software, Kubera, tracks your investments and finances. Routinely tracking your finances, with the ability to look at your past and present net worth, helps build a robust operational strategy to allow you to meet and exceed your goals. You also want to work through ways to continue to scale and grow your business.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company will be hiring engineers, graduates, HR and IT professionals, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as a team of customer service personnel that will look after the deliveries. Amazon is also giving out 700 apprenticeships in the IT engineering, fashion buying and digital marketing departments.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. For example, they many fail to detect or assess profound changes in operating landscapes, like Bear Stearns or Blockbuster did. Northern Command.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The company will be hiring engineers, graduates, HR and IT professionals, health and safety and finance specialists, as well as a team of customer service personnel that will look after the deliveries. Amazon is also giving out 700 apprenticeships in the IT engineering, fashion buying and digital marketing departments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The capacity to operate a 747 is incompatible with social media smarts. In the case of Qantas, the collision came when a marketing gimmick collided with far-reaching challenges to the company's internal operations; when the Twitter channel was mistakenly perceived as purely external instead of (inevitably) internal as well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. During Fashion Week in September 2011, Burberry did a direct campaign with an everyday consumer (not just the editors and fashionistas) to showcase their new line in what they called a #tweetwalk, letting users tweet about what they liked (or didn't).

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Technology and new concepts of living, as well as progressive notions of urbanization, industrial capitalism, consumerism, ecotourism, and renewable systems, could meld to fashion a new shared-growth paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Photo by Lorenzo Errico. Enter Harvard Business School.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? Also, It seems like a ton of time needs to be devoted to it all.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Anyone who has operated inside a big corporate will tell you that for any project, you might have an executive mandate. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In the first article in this series, I showed some striking numbers to stress what many inferred: there are real costs to locating operations outside of a startup super-hub (San Francisco Bay, New York, or Boston). Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The Fashion landscape is dominated by European firms.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest franchise bottler of Coca-Cola beverages in the world, set the stage for this learning two years ago when it created centers of excellence (COEs) to drive transformation in each of its functional or process areas, including supply chain, distribution, commercial, finance, HR and IT.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

I have seen and worked with several entrepreneurs and CEOs that jump on the fashion band wagon or immediately implement any idea that pops into their head with almost no analysis. I do agree with your basic premise though. This is acting before thinking, which I have never seen work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth. .”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies are both operators and investors. Shift to providing advice on business models, not just strategy and operations.

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