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Great Leaders Make Decisions | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisioning by consensus usually results in no decision being made, or an intellectually dishonest, watered-down decision that is so full of compromises, hedges and caveats that a non-decision might have been preferable.

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3 Ways Your Online Side Gig Can Earn Customers’ Trust

Harvard Business Review

In the course of researching my new book Entrepreneurial You , I discovered three strategies that allowed leading online marketers to build trusting, respect-based relationships with their customers. I was intrigued by these stories because Internet marketers are often derided by critics due to some practitioners’ scammy tactics.

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Cable Providers Win Even in an a La Carte World

Harvard Business Review

If anything, he views HBO’s move less like sedition and more like uncertain hedging, and one that could help platform players ultimately continue to thrive. “It’s a marketing ploy to get fledgling networks established.” “[Cable networks] don’t want to deal with the mass market,” Hazlett says.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Soon after, when Khan began tutoring his niece in mathematics while working at a hedge fund, he hit upon the idea of developing short video tutorials on YouTube. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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McDonald’s Has to Do More than Manipulate Its Stock Price

Harvard Business Review

In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 million in 2012, with the proportion of these totals derived from gains from stock-based compensation ranging from 37% in 2006 to 77% in 2010. Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit.

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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits

Harvard Business Review

Now, in a New York Times op-ed , Carl Icahn, the billionaire corporate raider turned hedge fund activist, has joined the chorus. corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. billion in dividends.

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