N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

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. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people.

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Roundtable Talk

MAY 18, 2011

After an affair with an IMF staffer back in 2008, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted as saying: “The personal behaviour of the managing director sets an important tone for the institution. Leadership is not about making excuses for bad behaviour as a way to protect our own personal short-term interests. How about you?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Short-term corporate behavior is a major problem in the 21 st century firm. Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. Tim Evans for HBR. So how can we ensure the latter?

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. In effect it leaves the manager with no objective.". It is logically impossible to maximize in more than one dimension at the same time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

In our study recently published in the Journal of Accounting and Economics, we test whether there is any relationship between workplace safety and managers’ attempts to meet earnings expectations. When managers engage in such practices, workplace safety deteriorates and workplace injuries mount.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

With Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals to encourage longer-term investing , the debate over whether American business is too fixated on the short term has moved from the dimly lit offices of earnest policy wonks into the klieg lights of U.S. primary season. But that is far from true. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

But as we've learned since, focusing on shareholder value can be an excuse for lots of short-sighted, destructive behavior. Somewhat ironically, most of these scholars still use long-term return to shareholders as their main measure of corporate success. They're a metric, not a goal.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

For example, it took Umicore, a global materials technology group, five years (2002–2007) to lay the basis for its transformation from a commodity supplier of base metals into a premium provider of emission control catalysts, rechargeable battery materials and other value-added solutions.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

But the rules and expectations are different when you’re managing a freelancer who isn’t fully employed by your company. Many managers assume that they don’t need to tend to freelancers as much as they do regular employees—and there’s some truth to that, says Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and Drive.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team. After the demise of Enron in 2002, many U.S. While Welch bequeathed a strong pension plan to GE, he also left the company with a dubious legacy of what is now called earnings management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Patience and a long-term view. Forward-thinking leaders are not just achieving measurable success in the short-term. Directness. He's personable, but blunt. Pragmatism. When the U.S.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2013

Between 2002 and 2012, the shareholder return of the average airline company rose an uninspiring 5.6% Of the worst-performing industries between 1992 and 2002, almost 60% percent wound up in the top half in the most recent 10-year period. But the shareholder return data over the long term make a pretty good case for staying put.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2011

What if, instead of trying to fix people, we assumed that they were already full of potential and created an environment that promoted their long-term well-being? The impact has been nothing short of transformative for individuals and organization alike. Developing people is a process — not an event.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Asked about retirement in 2002, he replied , "I had a great-grandmother who worked until she was 108 and then died in an accident.". It is the terms of that takeover that Greenberg is challenging with his lawsuit. In an age of short-term, hired-hand CEOs, there's a lot to admire in his commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

” Only few firms manage to be ambidextrous—most struggle to maintain a healthy balance between exploration and exploitation. And managers focused on immediate total shareholder returns may be delighted with high performance. Some firms manage to maintain this dual discipline as they grow. points p.a., points p.a.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When I first read Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game (the book that inspired the movie that opened this past weekend), I was struck by the similarities of the challenges that General Manager Billy Beane faced in 2002 to those that business employers face as they try to achieve the best returns on their talent investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. Research & development Financial management' It’s all a matter of when you cut your spending, and why. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

When PARC became a for-profit subsidiary of Xerox to practice open innovation in 2002, Henry Chesbrough had not yet published his book Open Innovation and the concept was not well understood. It turns out that companies tend to do well when they focus on their short-term business or develop options for long-term growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Willig and colleagues are using electronic PRO surveys to raise topics often missed or avoided in clinical consultation, flag signs of suicidal ideation, and trigger psychiatric or case-management interventions to improve safety and effective care delivery for patients.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

When you borrow talent, you obtain what you need more cost effectively than hiring it and without making a long-term commitment; and when you lend talent you’re offering your stars and high-potentials new opportunities for growth and development that they might not otherwise get within the confines of your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Since 2010, we've been conducting an ongoing survey of managers' attitudes about the strategies of their organizations ( click here to take the not-for-profit version of the profiler). In short, this is a crisis of coherence. Why the disparity? Our own research on organizational strategy and leadership more broadly suggests a reason.

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

physicians working as locum tenens has risen steadily from an estimated 26,000 physicians in 2002 to 48,000 physicians in 2016, or approximately 5% of the physician workforce. pneumonia, heart failure, shortness of breath) between 2009 and 2014. Overall, our analysis included approximately 1.82 1712) and spent an additional 0.4

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Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2012

What makes Project Managers successful? But there’s one thing that the best, most valued Project Managers have in common. They understand that using a single management style in every situation won’t get results. All great managers know how to deploy this style convincingly when a situation calls for it. But be careful.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How talent management is changing. Then practice and apply new behavior back on the job while instituting routines for manager, peer and coach feedback. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Insight Center. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. But products often fall short of these high expectations. In the meantime, the competition is managing their own innovation and coming up with similar or better improvements to their own products. Situation One: It’s a Technology in Search of a Need.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

The PCAOB is a relatively recent creation of Congress, one of the seemingly most successful products of the sprawling Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. What this seems to be, in short, is a regulatory agency doing its job — trying to look out for the public, being extremely transparent about it, and relying on the best evidence available.

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