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Help – It's not a dirty Word! | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I don’t see asking for help as a sign of weakness, rather I see it as a very smart thing to do, and I therefore tend to seek out help wherever I can find it. My personal and professional network are far more important to my success than my individual competencies.

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Values Based Hiring | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Never oversell the company, but rather disclose all the problems and weaknesses of the organization so that the candidate can make a good decision that won’t later be unwound by inconsistent messaging or practices. In answer to your question, there are any number of diagnostic tests (personality profiles, psychological evaluations, etc.)

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

As much as it may be politically incorrect to say so, it’s not nearly as much about the team, as it is the leader’s ability to assemble and lead the team. In all but the rarest of circumstances, teams simply don’t function well in the absence of sound leadership. is who they are going to put in charge?

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Leveraging Down for CEOs | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 20, 2007 Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple Jeremy Liew at Lightspeed Venture Partners has an interesting post: Time Rich or Time Poor? In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time).

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. But manufacturing?

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Miscellaneous unsolicited (and possibly biased) career advice

Erik Bernhardsson

My own personal development was always highly correlated to the company growth. I started managing at 25 and was running a machine learning team soon thereafter, despite having no formal background in machine learning. A team of smart people in an industry with not a lot of smart people can move mountains. Choosing a company.