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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The idea that the "cream will rise to the top" is too often more than offset by the Dunning-Kruger effect; and the real leader's highmindedness will be viewed as a threat to the status quo.

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Don't Divest Just Because the Economy Is Rotten

Harvard Business Review

Whether asset purchases are beneficial is debatable, but the overreaction that tends to come from external market forces is clearly not healthy. Yet M&A activity tends to spike when markets peak, arguably fueling a bubble: there were roughly $3.79 trillion in deals in 2006 , marking a new record only to be bested by 2007.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. It is early days in the use of predictive modeling to reduce risk and create new markets for small business loans.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

Adoption risk: Adopting technologies or responding to market, business, and technology trends too quickly or too slowly; reactively or over thought, without considering how non-technical implications or unintended consequences contribute adoption risk. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.