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When to Restructure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. There are even some business theorists that warn against undertaking complex restructurings because of the great risks involved. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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Relationships and Red Flags - A Learning Experience

Building Personal Strength

Monday, November 15, 2010 Relationships and Red Flags - A Learning Experience About 20 years ago, I met a wealthy retired executive who liked what I was doing so much he decided to help me succeed. It took me a while, but after sorting through the nuances of organizational politics, I discovered that he had "bought" this position for his son.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

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Effective followership plays such an important role in the development of future leadership skills that freshman at all the United States service academies (the Air Force Academy, West Point, Annapolis, and the Coast Guard and Merchant Marine Academies) spend their first year in formal follower roles.

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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

A few verbal tweaks (such as renaming the “Troika” — which consists of the EU, the IMF, and the ECB — the “Institutions”) were given as a political concession to the newly elected government, which had created high expectations with its electorate. The EU is notorious for putting off its hard decisions.

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Interview: Rebel Brown

N2Growth Blog

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. Sometimes they aren’t happy calls – and that’s when it gets really hard. Rebel Brown : Ah – when the light goes on! I don’t think they work.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Greece’s Problem Is More Complicated than Austerity

Harvard Business Review

This has certainly been the picture painted by Syriza, the left-wing political party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and by many friends of Greece and progressive economists. This, more than anything else, explains why Greece been unable to benefit from lower wage costs in developing its economy. So what about that debt?