N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

They typically represent clients, partners, vendors, supporters, those that frequently provide comments on the N2growth Blog or those that tend to be otherwise respected by N2growth.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Despite industry challenges and the 2008 recession, Futren has continued to prosper and expand.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

They ride the ups and downs of the economy more closely than the healthcare, government, or high-tech sectors, and average two to three times the rate of employee turnover, according to 2012 numbers from the Society for Human Resource Management. Despite industry challenges and the 2008 recession, Futren has continued to prosper and expand.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 16, 2020

The global financial crisis of 2008 may appear to be a century-old event for many millennials, even though it’s hardly been a decade since the US economy started getting back on track. Is it to fund the ongoing operations of his other venture Blue Origins? Or does he plan to launch another venture in the midst of this pandemic?”

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It was located along the banks of a river, an ideal place to meditate. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Yathi Yatheepan: October 28, 2010 at 6:45 pm Hi Mary, Thank you for another interesting story. Also I felt I absorb fast.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

Process : This business model design has 5 phases; Mobilize, Understand, Design, Implement and Manage. Gary Cohen grew the company from two people to 2,200 employees Currently, he is Managing Partner of CO2 Partners, LCC, operating as an executive coach and consultant. This final chapter puts it all together.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. JP Morgan is the biggest of them all with $2.3 trillion in assets ,$1.1

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

But their shame pales into invisibility compared to the humiliation inflicted on Switzerland's biggest bank. UBS's failure merits particular disgrace because the bank's board commissioned public review after public review of its risk management systems in the wake of roughly $40 billion in 2007 losses and a Swiss government bailout.

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Banking System Risk Management Review 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Export-Import Bank will hit its $100 billion credit exposure limit by May 1 and will stop issuing direct loans, loan guarantees and export-credit insurance in aid of American exports to risky markets. Then, on May 31, the legislation authorizing the Bank will expire, threatening the Bank's very existence.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

The current mantra is “Move fast with stable infrastructure”, which speaks to the organizational design challenge of operating at scale in a fickle and volatile world. ” It further revealed a complex and siloed organization, with competing operating assumptions, values, and practices across the group.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. What more proof does one need?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. There was this whole world out there of nonprofit management practices."

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. However, no one is saying “before we can do analytics we must explain the take-to-the-bank value of analytics to decision makers.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. Since 2008, we've benchmarked the performance of nearly 250 operations centers working on both core operations (e.g., But that's not by accident.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Moreover, having regularly defaulted on its debts, few international institutions are willing to lend to the government, forcing it to rely on poorly capitalized local banks.

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Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Ford CEO Alan Mulally tried to mitigate the impending bullwhip during the 2008 financial crisis by imploring the U.S. automobile industry.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. Microsoft ended the 20 th century owning over 95% of the operating systems that ran on computers (almost all on desktops). Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

My think-tank colleagues and I were stunned to see how many concurrent businesses the typical entrepreneur owns and manages in Africa. We had explained the talent churn away as a consequence of small, sub-optimal, unscalable businesses that failed to give talented managers a vision of personal career growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. But when it did, they were able to loan MBH a combined $1 million during the firm’s liquidity crisis in December 2008. That enabled the company to find a new lender who refinanced $25 million in bank debt.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

For Allen Printing, 2008 should have been a banner year. Our top line was growing, but the bottom line was not moving much and we had drawn down a lot on our bank credit line," he says. First, understand your true operating costs and how they evolve as your business grows. So what can an entrepreneur do?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. As Nike's Senior Portfolio Manager Adam Day says, "The global development sector had overlooked the enormous potential of investing in adolescent girls to reduce global poverty.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Successful companies between $5 million and $50 million in revenues can't get the capital they need to expand their operations and hire more people in city neighborhoods where the best social program is a job. Small business lending peaked in 2008. There are two barriers to investment; neither is substantive.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. It’s because you don’t get it…It’s not about you, your company, your products or your services. It’s about meeting customer needs and adding value.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Federal Reserve's balance sheet shows that, since 2008, "deposits by depository institutions" (i.e. banks) have ballooned from about $30 billion to around $1.5 Why is all that money sitting at the Fed earning a meager 0.25% nominal interest when those same banks could make a lot more than that by lending it out? In the U.S.,

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Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

They are able to offer fundamentally better products and services than the incumbents because of the product-centric DNA of the management teams. Second, these companies rent all aspects of operational scale from partners and eliminate any capital expenditures or operational inertia from their execution plans.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Confronting this ambiguity, the pilots appear to have reverted to rote training procedures that likely made the situation worse: they banked into a climb designed to avoid further danger, which also slowed the plane's airspeed and sent it into a stall. Each of these safety features, however, also increases the complexity of the whole.

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

Counting cash reserves, dividend payments, and stock repurchases, corporate America has had the opportunity to invest nearly $3 trillion in capital since the 2008 Great Recession — more than six times the size of the TARP bank bailout.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Imagine if managements, boards, and investors adopted them: we could restart our economy, energize our business school curricula and create prosperity for our children and grandchildren. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses. He wants loyal investors who seek to be stockowners, not renters.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2012

A 2008 Wall Street Journal analysis of boards in the troubled financial services, retail, and home construction sectors revealed that nearly 50 non-executive directors who were full-time CEOs or CFOs elsewhere resigned their posts that year. Of course, director resignation in times of crisis is sometimes warranted and perhaps even necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? Once companies have to account for the costs they've been externalizing, new jobs to manage new competencies will emerge. Banks would fail at lending and borrowing. Think again.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD.,

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