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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. ” to the crew.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. About the Author.

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“Trust Me, I’m a Leader”: Why Building a Culture of Trust Will Boost Employee Performance – and Maybe Even Save Your Company

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. And that response is hidden inside ‘business’ behaviors – sandbagging quotas, hedging on stretch goals, and avoiding accountability or commitment. About the Author.

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3 Ways to Get Your Own Digital Platform

Harvard Business Review

This is for organizations that want to diversify to include digital platforms but don’t currently have the skill sets or time to do it themselves. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

In 2009 it was $1.3 After using borrowed money in the 1980s and 1990s, then opening up a hedge fund in 2004, he has since 2011 basically just been managing his own money. His response: “While I think using 13Fs to track hedge fund stock-pickers works great, in my mind it works less so for the activist guys.” In 2012 it was $1.9

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Gene Sperling and Wall Street's Giant Sucking Sound

Harvard Business Review

I've had a few encounters with Gene through the years, and he's always struck me as an endearing (and rare) combination of policy wonk, political operator, and genuine mensch. Sperling is catching flak, though, for something that was first disclosed in 2009 — the fact that he was paid $887,727 in 2008 by Goldman Sachs.

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