N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

You may not have complete control of compensation incentives (for example), but you can probably come up with some non-monetary rewards/recognition programs that can motivate just as effectively.

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 2 Comments I just finished reading Dan Pink’s book “Drive” and had a bit of an epiphany about my Gen X paradigms about motivation and “pay for performance” and my own personal motivation. what drives you? But most of our organizational systems, especially rewards, haven’t kept up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

AUGUST 29, 2010

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Asking for Help Taking Inventory & A Model For Making It Meaningful → August 30, 2010 · 12:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Leadership ~ What’s Love Got To Do With It? It’s also the part that no big incentive program can hope to convey.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. Bret Reply Gwyn Teatro November 22, 2010 at 5:17 am Hi Bret, Yes, I agree. Reply louise altman November 23, 2010 at 12:43 am Hi Gwyn, What a great post! There’s clearly more work to be done!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

family finances between 2007 and 2010 depicts declines across the board, including a 25% drop in net worth for households under age 34 and a 33% drop for those between 55 and 64. The statistics can be partially explained by the housing crisis, Howe says. Today's lede item comes from HBR intern examplar Carla Yengo-Kahn.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

As we near the fifth anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis, we should now have the critical distance to distinguish the real causes from the stereotypical villains, namely, Wall Street greed and unfettered competition. Something clearly had scrambled the normal market incentives in the mortgage bazaar. Surely not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The burgeoning Ebola crisis hit home for Americans the other week with the death of a Liberian man in Dallas. Hierarchical command-and-control is slow and operates less on incentives for solutions than on avoiding criticism or mistakes. We’ve seen examples of these mobilizers in other times of crisis. We shouldn’t be surprised.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. Engage employees, through awards and incentives, to innovate, find operational savings, and develop products that cut customers’ emissions as well. But that has to change in the face of this crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2012

family finances between 2007 and 2010 depicts declines across the board, including a 25% drop in net worth for households under age 34 and a 33% drop for those between 55 and 64. The statistics can be partially explained by the housing crisis, Howe says. Today's lede item comes from HBR intern examplar Carla Yengo-Kahn.

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Survey Incentives Tools Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

This year was no exception, though the criticism had a particular post-crisis bent: Why are CEOs making an average $9.3 Yes, the market is rebounding; the S&P 500 was up 13% over 2010. 04 Jan 2010. $80. 04 Jan 2010. million, up 11% over 2009, when the economy is still largely in the tank? on October 9, 2007. 02 Jan 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

The title comes from Alan Greenspan's now-famous admission to a Congressional committee in 2008 — "I have found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works" — and as best I can tell it posits that extreme income inequality was a precipitating factor behind the financial crisis. It certainly left an impression on Sorrell.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. For example, Sinovel, a Chinese wind turbine producer, had to divest its U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Managers running these stunted businesses were likely to have fewer prospects than if owners were focusing on fewer, scalable businesses and aligning their incentives with ambitious managers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Unfortunately, because the candidates have associated Hispanics more with immigration reform than any other issue, Obama and Romney have helped add fuel to an identity crisis that many U.S. Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The HITECH Act, which was part of the federal stimulus program enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008, tasked the Obama administration and its Department of Health and Human Services with creating a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic-health-information system. Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

But when it comes to achieving the goal of doubling exports in five years [a goal Obama outlined in his 2010 State of the Union speech ], we already did the easy part: because our exports were so depressed due to the global financial crisis, we saw growth in the first couple of years. That's well chosen as an objective. trade policy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began his tenure, in 2010, by lowering targets by over one-third, in a single bold move. Bertolini observed that many of his peers had been promising 15% earnings per share (EPS), even during the financial crisis of 2009. Bertolini knew that such unrealistic targets would create problems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Unfortunately, because the candidates have associated Hispanics more with immigration reform than any other issue, Obama and Romney have helped add fuel to an identity crisis that many U.S. Hispanic leaders want both government and business to invest in developing a relationship with the community that embraces their cultural relevancy.

Policies 8

Policies Short-term Diversity Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

The media did exactly what it was designed to do, given the incentives that govern it. But digital technology and business incentives exerted more influence over the media coverage than editorial decisions and missing voices did. And it won’t solve the media’s structural challenges or change its incentives.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 28, 2010

Sunday, March 28, 2010 Make It Easy For Employees To Volunteer April 18-24 is National Volunteer Week. And, a growing number of businesses are rewarding employees who volunteer by giving them extra vacation time and other incentives. Thats the week when nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. Fortunately, throughout the U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010 New Mobile App Makes It Easy To Find Volunteer Opportunities You can now find local volunteer opportunities on VolunteerMatch.orgs new free mobile app for iPhones. Consider rewarding employees with incentives or extra vacation time in exchange for their volunteer hours. So, encourage employees to volunteer.

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