N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Whether expanding into new markets, managing crises, or driving innovation , they bring insight and clarity, combining data with intuition. A negative environment affects daily operations and hampers long-term growth and success. This requires sharp decision-making, strategic planning, and clear and reassuring communication.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. We know that.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Data is the basis of customer service, decision-making, and overall operational efficiency. They will also be extra familiar with the rules and standards that apply to your enterprise, ensuring smooth operations and compliance. As companies grow, coordinating the increasing amount of data is vital to long-term achievement.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. I had to learn that lesson, and almost blew it many years ago. link] mikemyatt Thanks for stopping by Bert.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. Here’s how business coaching can create a significant impact: Increased Efficiency : By identifying areas of inefficiency, business coaching helps streamline operations.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March. Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. At that rate, the entire world would be infected in 90 days. Only 3% of Wuhan were infected.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

You have to lead transformation without sacrificing financial and operating results, or injuring your engagement scores. Pinterest today engages more than 200 million users and this fall reached a pre-IPO market value of over $12 billion. But that lofty goal can feel like attempting to change tires in the middle of rush-hour traffic.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. They can recruit top scientific and operational talent to achieve the desired corporate goals.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2018

You may be a master of your own particular industry, but understanding how other, tangentially related parts of the broader business world work, will give you a useful degree of insight into how your role is affected by wider market forces. The main thing is that you begin expanding your understanding of market forces per se.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state. The second is to lead innovation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

Also, business owners have to carter seasonal demands when they have to hold extra merchandise so that they can meet the market demand. Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 30, 2019

More often than not, enthusiastic entrepreneurs need to research the market and evaluate their options before being in a position to offer services that meet the audience expectations. In reality, building and maintaining your market presence is the most critical operation. Escape rooms are not only popular in the U.S.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

But it’s not just about the immediate impact on day-to-day operations. They train hard and practice relentlessly to hone their skills and stay sharp. However, Xerox failed to capitalize on these groundbreaking inventions, and it was Apple who ultimately brought them to market and revolutionized the computer industry.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. They’ve helped drive the development of mobile payment solutions to promote financial inclusion in emerging markets.

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Rajesh Setty

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

He is one not only very sharp but also one of the kindest people I have met. There are, in fact, myriad operational, marketing and financial strategies that can and do lead to growth. I have had the pleasure of meeting Jack Hayhow last year and I have known him for years now.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Here, for example, are the company’s net income and cash flow over the past decade: The difference between the top and bottom lines here is mostly about investments in buildings, machines, and other things, which are written down over time in the income statement but ignored in calculating operating cash flow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

Through the first half of the last decade, a foundation of Nokia's competitive advantage was its unmatched ability to customize a wide variety of phones for operators. It helped to establish the Symbian operating system in 1998 and spent a fortune trying to attract developers to the platform. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

The capitals of Europe empty out in August, traditionally because of the weather, but financial markets don't take a holiday, air-conditioning has eliminated the August rationale, and growth countries south of the equator, notably Brazil, keep on with their productive winter pace. Over-communication is better than simply disappearing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S. .” This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2012

In 2005, HP split off the printer business from the personal computer business, dissolved the Customer Solutions Group (CSG) which was a sales and marketing organization that cut across product categories, and pushed selling responsibilities down to the product business units. The merging of the two businesses is a reversal for HP.

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Productivity Products Organization Sharpe 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Special Forces operators such as the Navy SEALs are expected to "Embrace the Suck." The former is like a runner struggling to perfect their stride after the tenth kilometer of practice; the latter is a sharp pain suggesting a torn tendon. That shouldn't surprise. Confronting pain is integral to most other elite endeavors.

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Innovation Self-aware Resistance Sharpe 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Some health care businesses use duplicate dyad management structures—one to oversee the clinical enterprise and another to oversee the business and operations that support the clinical enterprise. The dyad model can help break down silos, improve the way clinical and operations leaders work together, and coordinate care.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Your company has (mostly) solved product/market fit. What to do. What to do. What not to do.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

The truth is that the worlds of activism and impact investing are converging much more swiftly than most people realize — and this union holds enormous promise for those who wish to see the creation of capital markets that support sustainable economic development. Daly, OP ; Sting ; Trudie Styler ; and myself.

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Hedge Long-term Short-term Letter 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Setting up small, high-performing virtual teams has enormous potential for companies to increase sales, penetrate new markets, improve business processes and come up with the next generation of disruptive innovations. There is no Plan B,” says Micah Sharp, GM of Red Giant, “It’s us.”. But putting together a great team is tricky.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Both teams should include operational business leaders as well as risk-focused technology, policy and legal experts. In particular, the necessity of the sharp focus provided by the Red Team/Blue Team structure is vividly illustrated by the recent official report of "The Fukishima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission."

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Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

Moreover, China itself is experiencing a sharp decline in labor’s share. Firms with a cost or quality advantage have always enjoyed higher market shares. In the “good old days,” more-productive companies would take a bigger slice of the market, but there would be plenty left over for their rivals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

labor market over the past 30 years. That is, even while most measures of local labor-market strength had converged back to pre-recession levels, differences in advertised skill demands remain. production and operatives). Moreover, the vast majority of this “upskilling” persists through the end of our sample in 2015.

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Skills Sample Technology Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

For example, this study examining the rivalry between sales and marketing showed that conflicts between managers from these historically warring functions were not driven by interpersonal issues. Neither alone controlled speed to market, but together they could significantly influence it.

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How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Marketers tend to like big, bold actions that grab attention and spew off metrics. To market a product or an idea, you have to change minds, and that takes time and a lot of careful work. The arc of history is long—the length of a career, rather than a marketing campaign. Great brands operate the same way.

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Brand Marketing Sharpe Learning-by-Doing 8

Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Vertical integration extended their chain of operations, bringing inside their boundaries suppliers at one end (“upstream”) and customers at the other (“downstream”). Whether vertically integrated or diversified, the boundaries of these organizations remained sharp, with the new activities reporting through the established hierarchy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market. Worse, could it end up selling those components on the open market? Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation.

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