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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." But for certain categories of risk, this is a false and dangerous assumption.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Questions and Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival.

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Make Your Organization Anti-Fragile

Harvard Business Review

and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. The danger is that their management approaches cannot sense or respond to shocks. Operations Risk management Strategy'

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. billion in net economic benefit between 2009 and 2011 and is on course to cut region-wide power plant carbon pollution by half from 2005 to 2020.

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