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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation.

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The Wasting of Your Life

Chris Brady

" The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions. This results in the need to blame someone external to themselves, and from there, well, that would be an article long enough to give War and Peace a run for it's longevity record. 

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

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Streaks, from Jumpin' Joe to Mutual Fund Managers

Harvard Business Review

Using probability, it is easy to see that if you have a large enough population doing things in a mediocre way for a long enough time, you'll always get some streaks — think monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare. Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. You can read the paper here.).

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made.