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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era. Welch clearly not only understood the concept of organizational leverage through proper deployment of talent and resources He mastered it. That’s about it. Transfer ideas and allocate resources and get out of the way.&#

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. Nicely done Mike!

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Social Media Marketing an hour a day – Dave Evens 7.

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Family Matters | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If I recall correctly, Jack Welch wrote that you can only have one priority, you need to pick which it will be. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Welch himself said in 2009 that optimizing a business for shareholder returns is the “dumbest idea in the world.”.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

Last fall, when it was still not clear who would be the next chief executive of Microsoft, Jack Welch recommended Sam Palmisano for the job. What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Short answer: no.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.