N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011? Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Did the attainment of your 2010 goals lead you closer to success or significance? My hope in authoring this post is to have you adjust your thinking when it comes to the definition of success.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional security and superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time). Case in point…have you ever witnessed an employee throw a fit of rage and resign their position in the heat of the moment? Thanks for commenting.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best? Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master. it is about having a people connection: with students, parents, as well as staff.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. Juliano Howard T.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

It was located along the banks of a river, an ideal place to meditate. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Yathi Yatheepan: October 28, 2010 at 6:45 pm Hi Mary, Thank you for another interesting story. Thanks for the link.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Fighter Pilots and Special Operations teams have discovered and used a secret to continuous improvement – a tool every enterprise can benefit from. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. But then we sobered up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

London-based HSBC, arguably the world's most global bank, recently described speculation that it was planning to shift its headquarters from London to Hong Kong as "presumptuous." After all, HSBC is not proposing to close its British operations. Its full name is, after all, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The first is from a Google executive; the second, from an exec at Cisco. Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. They get it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

France introduced quotas in January 2011, and in one year, the number of women on boards took a grand jeté of 10 percentage points to 22%. But there are plenty of others determined to circle the wagons around their pale, male executive pool. Norway has had a quota since 2002, and women now make up more than 40% of board members.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

boss, Ina Drew , the former head of their unit in of the bank's, the Chief Investment Office (CIO); and CEO Jamie Dimon, to whom the CIO reported who oversaw the CIO. Drew quickly retired after the losses, and Iksil and Macris are, according to news reports, leaving the bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. But I believe that Dimon literally didn't see perceive disaster unfolding before him.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. And it was during Drew's absences, according to a richly detailed account in The New York Times , that the bank's chief investment office, which she ran, began to get into trouble: The morning conference calls Ms.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2011

I had an interesting conversation earlier this week with a very experienced consultant whose company works with many of the largest financial services providers in the world — the banks, funds, and insurance companies we've all heard of. There are two types of bad news here for the services providers. I hope they show up soon.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

An Indian investment bank, Avendus, projects 376 million Indian Net users by 2015. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction. Consumer demand for innovative digital services, when executed ably, seems unquenchable; and that demand is stimulating capital flows.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

I should know: Many of my former colleagues, friends, and family members mentioned these stereotypes in 2011 when I accepted a job helping launch a new publication covering the business aspects of this emerging sector. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

million in 2011. Fortune 500 chief executives were female and 40% of U.S. Representation of women on boards of S&P 500 companies declined to 16% in 2011 from 16.6% how to keep all her channels operating in concert with one another. million women-owned businesses in the U.S., corporate boards. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

Corporate executives seek to inject “Silicon Valley DNA” into their cultures, and policy makers point to venture-funded entrepreneurship as a solution for all manner of problems. In 1968 an investor named Arthur Rock backed executives from Fairchild Semiconductor to start a new company, which would become known as Intel.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Soon consumers will be managing their Branded Currency the way they use Mint to manage their bank, credit, investment, and other financial accounts. Retailers who adopt and execute smart Branded Currency strategies will gain relative share of wallet and have deeper, more enduring relationships with consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

That made it relatively easy to assemble a big group of plaintiffs, since all you had to do was find those who had bought or sold a company’s stock over a particular time period — whether or not they’d been paying any attention to the misleading statements of its executives. As a result, University of Pennsylvania law professors William W.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. Operational Statistics. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. link] Social Influence Measurement – Tools, Resources & Commentary | Digital Marketing Blog // Digital Operative [.]

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

A recently released survey reveals that 86 percent of firms face increasing complexity in their operating environment or organizational structure over the past three years. The complexity challenge: how businesses are bearing up is an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) report commissioned by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem with many sales organizations is that they still operate with the same principles and techniques they were using in the 60′s, 70’s and 80’s. When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. It’s about meeting customer needs and adding value. I send people to a competitor?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Unfamiliarity with the actual practice of consulting at the executive level. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Failure to create service area niches and target clients.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

More than 40% of the unicorns that went public since 2011 saw their valuation stay flat or dropped. Since then, WeChat has been constantly launching new services, from mobile payments to booking doctor appointments, from police reporting to taxi hailing, from video conferencing to mobile banking services.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The authors then show how to best execute specific initiatives, test major project assumptions, and develop a culture that values disciplined experimentation and learning over meeting mindless and unrealistic goals. I’m thinking of HDFC Bank in India, Yahoo! Fifteen years ago, what was a news executive thinking about?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. Executives never stayed long. Congressional Hearings. Communications. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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