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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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. Data processing procedures are effective and secure because of a strong technological basis.

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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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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

” The morning prayers of the local population could be heard echoing through the loudspeakers outside the large 25-foot concrete T-walls topped with barbed wire that surround our compound, a Forward Operating Base within an Afghan Air Force base. I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool Then the decisive moment: the unveiling!

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Rapidly advancing technology (sometimes helpful and sometimes not). You can’t cement victories into your operating system, but you can cement behaviors. There is a time when you cannot change things, they will not get better on their own, and you need to take a sharp right turn to escape your predicament. Shifting demographics.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

A well-trained team not only ensures a smooth operation but also creates a pleasant dining experience that encourages customers to return. Trends come and go, technologies advance, and customer expectations evolve. Employees should also be trained in using sharp tools and heavy equipment safely to prevent accidents and injuries.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 25, 2020

In Technology and Cooperation Help Fight the Pandemic Chelsea writes, “The threat from COVID-19 should be taken seriously, but there are reasons for rational optimism even during a pandemic.” Based on this sharp change, he predicted all of China would improve in two weeks and stop in China by the end of March.

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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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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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HR Digest

MAY 3, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of redefining jobs moves up the agenda. Amazon operates like a series of customer-focused start-ups innovating at a fast pace. First, continuing to invest in technology and tech teams that can develop tools for our employees.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Uses technology effectively to enhance communication and collaboration. 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. Displays a passion for exploring new technologies and methodologies.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

Achieving coherence requires a sharpness of focus that few companies have mastered. Large downturns (such as this recession), technology disruptions, or regulatory shifts create discontinuities that simply accelerate the industry’s evolution toward this equilibrium state. The leading companies are getting out in front of this trend.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

With 66 percent of workers operating remotely at least part-time, effective strategies for leading virtual teams have become paramount. Invest in a suite of virtual team communication technologies, like collaborative software, video conferencing, and project management platforms.

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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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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. Not only do these approaches fit with our identity as a technology company, but they can actually help reduce bias in candidate vetting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2018

It seems beyond debate: Technology is going to replace jobs, or, more precisely, the people holding those jobs. Here are four ways to think about the people left behind after the trucks bring in all the new technology. ” The point of technology, she argues, is to boost productivity, not cut the workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2012

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

But there wasn't much activity until six months later when Mike Karol, vice president of operations, told his managers to make it their responsibility. Some departments started trying it and some developed a few sharp ideas, which generated excitement. Consider the story of Technicolor. Three years later, the number was 20,000.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Hart does not quite do what the Kahn Academy does but she operates in the same space. The underlying technology is PowerPoint but it is accelerated beyond what one could do in a lecture hall. These developments stand in sharp contrast to what Apple has focused on. Want to get a taste? Check out this story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

In prior research , we at the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) found that women leave STEM fields in droves: 52% of highly qualified women working for science, technology, or engineering companies leave their jobs. A striking 78% of successful STEM women said they are their authentic selves at work, compared to 58% of other women in STEM.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Previous research has suggested that a primary driver of this job polarization is something called routine-biased technological change (RBTC), an unfortunate mouthful whereby new technologies substitute for repetitive, middle-skill jobs and complement analytical, high-skill jobs. labor market over the past 30 years.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. First, hospital operations are in many ways like airline and airport operations and transportation services.

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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. Nor is it a substitute for a strong governmental role in circumstances involving dangerous technology or systemic financial risk or natural disasters. (As

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

These changes are driven by seismic shifts in consumer behavior and an explosion of both consumer- and B2B-facing technologies. When and how do we shift our businesses from legacy operating models to ones that better reflect the future? How do we maximize our creativity as an industry while integrating data-driven approaches?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In one case, an emergency room doctor failed to recognize a patient was having an acute heart attack because he appeared fit and healthy and did not have any typical risk factors — even though the patient told the doctors he was having sharp chest pains.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

” Rapid technological advance in computers and automation has led to a huge fall in the quality-adjusted price of capital equipment. Moreover, China itself is experiencing a sharp decline in labor’s share. The disagreement is over why labor has been losing out. Maybe the leading story is “Robocalypse Now.”

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2021

Leapfrogging advances in materials, photonics, optics, and electronics have precipitated a rising demand for 3D display technologies. The increased demand for enhanced imaging and the adoption of 3D technologies in smartphones, HMD devices, projector devices, and monitors are expected to catapult 3D displays across a new threshold of realism.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

There were misunderstandings across the group about what one another did and sharp differences in how each subgroup defined a successfully commercialized product. R&D viewed operations as “the people who only know how to say no to opportunities,” while operations viewed R&D as “the time- and money-wasters.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Even if business leaders want to abandon the practice, it’s so firmly embedded in their operations that many think it can’t be done. But it requires the adoption of a whole new operating model. The key was finding technology that was easy and seamless enough so people actually used it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

But that policy came at the cost of badly degraded incentives for providers to invest in new technologies, leaving the EU with minimal cable Internet, fiber-optic networks, or high-speed mobile broadband. Since 1996, and even during the most recent recession, private network operators in the U.S. At least for voice services, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Since 2007, gross cross-border capital flows have fallen by 65%, and half of that is due to a sharp reduction in cross-border lending and other banking activities, a new McKinsey Global Institute report finds. Digital platforms make payments across borders quicker and cheaper, and blockchain technology makes them more secure, too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

In doing research on multinational operations in the Middle East and Africa, we’ve learned that companies are well aware of how President Trump’s foreign and trade policies could affect their businesses there. more competitive prices, more localized products) and improve their risk management and operational efficiency.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2011

Feeling cooped up in the executive offices and oppressed by the presence of the media, MacDonagle had gone outside to breathe some air — actually, some tobacco smoke — and had invited the sharp young program manager Samantha Van Sant to join him. It's a great piece of technology. He drew a gash in one of them. "A

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