Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

Our company has a great relationship with our banker, one that has endured more than ten years of high-flying and recession free-falling economies. His most recent act of loyalty was to restructure our credit to our advantage, to help us thrive during the recession. infantry company. But what is meant by that, exactly?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 8, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Getting to the Heart of Mental Toughness The Importance of Being Purposeful → March 9, 2010 · 4:37 am ↓ Jump to Comments Employee Engagement…What’s in a Name? Elliot Reply Gwyn Teatro March 10, 2010 at 12:27 am You make a good point, Elliot.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

For me businesses are as much or more about the people than they are about the products and markets …so those tough restructuring calls (or sometimes the shut it down calls) are the hardest things ever. On with the interview… Mike Myatt: For our readers not familiar with your background, could you give us a brief Bio?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Greece did have some good arguments going for it: It had achieved the biggest fiscal adjustment any developed country had mustered so far , stabilized its economy, and restructured its private debt. The EU is notorious for putting off its hard decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

It was called "Equal Opportunity for Women Is Smart Business" but it might just as easily have been called "Management Development for Women Is Just Management Development (but with women in it)." As Boyle wrote, "We are not utilizing the capabilities of the women in our companies. That, essentially, was the message behind M.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2012

When Johnson & Johnson named vice chairman Alex Gorsky as its next CEO, the company concluded a very public succession race that began in 2010 between Gorsky and fellow vice chairman Sheri McCoy. However, one thing is certain: if she leaves, many governance experts will blame the loss on the company's "horse race" succession strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While the contractions in business activity along global supply chains will cause companies to cut capital investments and inventories, we should remember that this is only the first leg of the phenomenon. Consequently, although companies should cut costs now, they should be on the lookout for the quick rebound that is likely to follow.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

Stock analysts now view such expenditures as essential to a company’s long-term brand and value. Coca-Cola is one of the many companies that are making efforts to tackle the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

More companies want far greater flexibility with far fewer people. It''s not that troubled economies and disruptive innovations inherently shed more jobs than they create; it''s that ongoing global restructuring of markets makes temporary and/or part-time employment more attractive for more organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. Meanwhile, the retirement fund for pensioners of DEO, the state electricity company, continues to receive an annual state subsidy to the tune of €600 million—at a time when most pensions are being slashed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

I am a big believer of the symbiotic necessity of large companies and entrepreneurial ventures living side by side: You simply cannot have a flourishing entrepreneurship ecosystem without large companies to cultivate it, intentionally or otherwise. The result?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

Given the shortage of talented executives, how can companies attract the best and brightest? How does a company become a destination of choice for talent in the aftermath of the financial crisis? To answer these questions, we surveyed several dozen senior search consultants at a top global executive-placement firm in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. The leading companies in online search, social media, and e-commerce are all based in one or the other of these two regions. Winner-take-all economics favored the companies in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

China’s Communist Party recently approved the 13th Five-Year Plan , designed to guide the country’s social, political, and economic development through the second half of this decade. And how should Chinese companies and foreign companies doing business in China respond? What is the significance of the plan?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2010

This idea draws on the research of some impressively-credentialed scientists, and on a theory that is so well-accepted that it's no longer usually presented as a theory, but as a simple fact of human development. I talked this over with a woman in top management at a Fortune 75 company.

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