N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will! I Think Not. Whos Reading N2growth Twitter Updates mikemyatt: Poor work requries a lot of explanation beca.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

As a result, institutions in the financial services sector risk losing their license to operate — the permission to conduct business granted by customers, partners, and government. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2016

The prospect of urban innovation excites the imagination. The messy truth is that cities are not the same, and even the most innovative approach can never achieve universal impact. The opportunities to innovate will differ greatly by segment. Yelp, Zillow, and Trip Advisor are examples of innovations in this context.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

A teenager old enough to drive is twice as likely to have a smartphone as they are a driver’s license. One way to appeal to this demographic (and to the parents who often finance young drivers’ transportation) is to focus on safety. What parent who could afford it wouldn’t pay a premium for a car like this?

Transportation 10

Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2017

For years, the small East Texas town of Marshall has held a special status in patent litigation: poster city for opportunistic “patent trolling” lawsuits brought by nonpracticing entities, firms that amass patents for the sake of pursuing license fees and litigation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Creative professionals do fare better when they’re given flexible schedules , meaningful work, and license to fail — but then, so do the rest of us. The good news is that the curiosity-driven creatives who come out of these programs can make excellent leaders, well-suited to the kinds of collaborative teams that spur innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company. Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. government, which through DARPA and other initiatives stands out worldwide for its astoundingly positive track record in funding true innovation. An even bigger question for the American taxpayer is whether such support leads to a "parasitic" innovation eco-system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

This summer, the company applied for federal licenses to sell directly to customers the excess renewable energy it generates on its new campus and in facilities across Oregon, Nevada, and California. Consider Apple, hardly a byword in the energy business. California, Texas, and most of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. One trend that has contributed to short-termism and lower innovativeness is the increased prevalence of outside CEOs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Great service and an innovative pricing strategy. So what’s driving Uber’s success?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. The innovation portfolio. But to build toward its future state vision, and scale up its insurance business, the organization sought and won licenses in D.C.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. A misunderstood story.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The for-profit arm, Embrace Innovations, would raise money from venture capitalists — though our first screening criteria would be investors who were aligned with our social mission. It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To qualify, pharmacists need a Doctor of Pharmacy degree and must be licensed. It is a fast growing field and attracts a lot of entrepreneurs and innovators. They handle admissions, quality assurance, data management and examinations or in a specialist department such as finance, careers, marketing or human resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

If, by contrast, Tesla’s target was merely a $100 billion market capitalization — frankly, a great target for most companies, as it projects a 7% return annually for the next 10 years — then investors might quickly lose their appetite to continue financing the company. They signed up for transformation, not steady returns.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

And it’s interesting to note that although the party had threatened to check the licenses of the rich “entrepreneurs” who own the key media, they shelved the pledge a few weeks into their administration—after which media coverage of the party became broadly supportive (at least until the crisis peaked).

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Policies Tourism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

economy — especially software-intensive sectors such as media, professional services, and finance — tend to be highly profitable as well. Some will succeed, and effective innovations will spread rapidly. As McKinsey’s researchers write in their report : The most digitized sectors in the U.S. Others will try and fail.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

A smarter approach would be to treat those who care for children as professionals and to invest in the training and licensing requirements that would be needed to justify much higher rates of pay for those who care for our youngest citizens. What’s true nationally is also true of the Wharton men we surveyed in 2012.

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Policies Health Care Education Career 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this latest flurry of debate about working long hours , some have intimated that overwork is inevitable in highly competitive industries such as law, finance, and high tech. But that’s just not true. We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Drone operators will be regularly required, for example, to pass a written test, but won’t, as rumored, need to obtain a pilot’s license. of what George Mason University’s Adam Thierer calls “ permissionless innovation.”

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Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

For instance, selling platform licenses to entire companies, like the enterprise HR software Workday, takes much more time than it does to sell a new application for a smart phone. Both have radically different sales cycles, but both must be budgeted accordingly. We need to go no further than the Pet Rock for an example.

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