N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

In the final analysis, it's not the tools I really have an issue with, but with some of those who use them and the manner in which they are used. Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? Most turned out to be pretty good leaders–elsewhere. Keep writing! Thanks for stopping by Steve.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Now that we’ve made the economic case for what and to whom you should leverage down to, let’s discuss what does, and does not, merit the attention of a CEO based on non-financial analysis.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Petersburg, Florida.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

My conclusions are drawn from 30 years of observational and experiential analysis. " I agree completely…Thanks for the refining thoughts. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for your comments. Interestingly enough, I think your example of Google is a great one.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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Chris Brady

MAY 2, 2010

.             It would appear that how we think andwhat we think are such a part of us that we don’t stop to consider themseparate from ourselves at all, much less give them a hearty analysis to makesure of their accuracy and nobility.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The analysis you describe seems to me to happen after a flash of insight. The flash and analysis don’t always result in a win, even if the idea seems to meet your criteria, so another key behavior of winners is that they keep trying. Flash-analysis/trial again and again until it clicks. Flash of inspiration.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St. Petersburg, Florida.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

By any category analysis or analytical standard blogging has obviously developed into a powerful communication medium. A simple cost/benefit or risk/reward analysis should indicate whether your effort will be of value to you, and even if it is not of value to you, it may be to others.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

He is an advisor to business leaders from a variety of organizations throughout the world, including major Fortune 500 companies, as well as private and nonprofit institutions in industries such as aerospace, healthcare, government, professional associations, telecommunications, and finance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

For now, let’s look at the four phases that will follow the organizational analysis you read about in Part 1. Gina has covered a wide range of business topics that include keeping Boomer skills in the workplace, teaching finance to non-finance professionals, and growth and change in urban and suburban business clients.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Excellence in practice, preparation, commitment, effort, attitude, relationships, goal setting, execution, measurement, analysis, improvement, and persistence produces excellence in results.  Excellence results from excellence. Excellent outcomes come from excellent inputs.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

But it’s no longer enough for analysts to stay within their silos of expertise and crank out analysis. This is when analysis evolves into insight and when businesses are able to compete on analytics. They must reach out to analytical teammates (in modeling, database marketing, research, finance) to connect the unconnected.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If you suffer from analysis paralysis, procrastination, timidity, a lack of courage or confidence, being indecisive, or being in over your head, there is trouble looming. Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. If you can’t make decisions, you can’t get things done.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I once hired someone with excellent “pedigree” i.e. fine university training, JA program volunteer, excellent work record in finance and extraordinarily enthusiastic about Junior Achievement. New hires must reflect the company’s core beliefs. I was blind to the fact that he was a bit “uppity” and often talked down to people.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Assess : Put the idea through a risk/reward and cost/benefit analysis. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. A 19% increase in the number of patients seen.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis. If so, again don't get fall into analysis paralysis. " Too often, as you indicate, we think it's all about me; I'm being picked on by the cosmos. On the other hand, it may be about me. I may have some personal issues. Do something.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Thanks for the great analysis and the context within which it was framed. I offer my best wishes for success with your new company and your mission. Please stop by again and keep us updated. Thank for your comment. link] mikemyatt Hi Susan: You did a bit more than ponder didn't you?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. A 2016 analysis of more than 20,000 firms in 91 countries found that companies with more female executives were more profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s His analysis revealed that the college-educated were looking for affordability, with “many ending up in places with lower housing prices.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. My husband and I lost a painful lot of money. It was devastating. Lesson 1: Set clear boundaries.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

With these criteria in mind, our final list is as follows: Our analysis revealed characteristics shared by the winning firm’s leaders as well as common strategies they employed. Because dual transformations typically take years, we used a 10-year time frame in our analysis.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

A minimum of 125 respondents are from the finance function and a minimum of 125 represent functions other than finance. The Economist Intelligence Unit is the world’s leading resource for economic and business research, forecasting and analysis. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. And while some foundations bucked the trend and made double-digit investment gains in recent years, the average foundation in Chronicle's analysis netted out 14.9

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2014

And of course Steve Jobs, the crotchety business genius who co-founded the company in 1979 and drove its recent renaissance, died in 2011. Apple Disruptive innovation Finance' That is to say, the uncertainties about Apple’s future trajectory — even over just the next couple of years — are staggering.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. In addition to sheer luck, three categories of factors could explain differences in the performance of divested businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the final analysis it’s really all a matter of perspective…you can either view yourself as part of a hierarchical world sitting at the top of the org chart puffing your chest and propping-up your ego, or you can view yourself as the hub at the center of a large and diverse network.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, the number of startups founded and funded outside of California, Massachusetts, and New York has grown by almost 65%. Many small businesses don’t require the sort of financing required by firms in pursuit of s-curve growth. And the numbers tell a similar story: startups are mushrooming up everywhere.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Much like you have performance reviews for your employees you should conduct an analysis of how your customers are performing. Develop Customer Scorecards : You should actually profile your clientele such that you understand the difference between good accounts and bad accounts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. ” After talking with her husband, she decided to quit in July 2011. I had an assistant, IT support.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2011

The book draws the best thinking from numerous disciplines, including marketing, economics, and finance, to deliver a comprehensive presentation that comes alive through numerous case studies, memorable examples, and graphs. A good analysis requires both quantitative and qualitative insights. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.” “I knew I wanted to be free to make these big decisions.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

An analysis of business encompasses much more than accounting fraud and stated values of stocks. A major report to the United Nations Millennium Summit calls for changes in the way in which peacekeeping operations are organized and financed. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Ina Drew was in the bank's High Five in the proxy statement, with more than $15 million in total comp in 2010 and 2011 (cash, bonus, stock awards). Vague statements or press releases may accompany these events, rather than clear analysis. The same may be true of the London trader and his supervisor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Further analysis confirms that this trend is not just due to acquisitions; the companies are delisted sooner even when the sample is constricted only to those delisted for financial troubles. Chief finance officers increasingly question the ability of a day trader to value a digital company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

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