N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the comment Heather – I don't understand why some leaders even bother having a team if they don't intend on listening to their input and feedback. and the state, counties and cities.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 2, 2020

of real estate since 2011, giving their team a front-row […]. Jaggi, known as “Jaggi”, is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Iridius Capital, a real estate firm based in Tucson, Arizona. Jaggi and Iridius Capital invests in real estate across all major real estate asset classes and has acquired or developed $1.5B

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 10, 2011

By Scott Adams, the creator of " Dilbert ," abstracted from How to Get a Real Education in The Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2011. I failed at my first career in banking. He told me to figure out where the most innovation in banking was happening and to move there. Combine Skills. And so I did. Distance is your enemy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The arrogant CEO doesn’t value the input of line and staff management.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Now 45, Heather Aguilera—who was an IT Project Manager “earning six figures” at a major Canadian bank before she left to become a SAHM—was eventually reduced to thinking she “would have to work in a donut shop.”

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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

Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt While I agree with all your assertions, there is in fact quite a lot of overlap between emotions, conflict management, anger management, interpersonal communications, etc. Thanks for commenting. A blog post?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

When you look at your bank balance and the bills each month, how do you react? Whether this developed from watching my father build his business, or just plain denial of my bank balance, I cannot say for sure. What are the Best Ways to Create, Manage, and Build a Brand? And where did this belief originate?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. Financial management. Change management. Communication. Strategic planning. Risk taking.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts. it is about having a people connection: with students, parents, as well as staff.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Why do we crave leadership nowadays?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , released last month, is a valuable example of policymakers collecting data to support evidence based policy making. have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g., have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g.,

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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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Chris Brady

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Growing up, I can remember always having a big, green plastic dog bank standing in the corner of my bedroom. But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ).  I chose a college to attend. " For years my extra change went into that doggy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

For example, Discover Bank held monthly meetings of all staff by location and shift. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. billion in 2011, and that funding volume is on track to nearly double to $2.8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households , released last month, is a valuable example of policymakers collecting data to support evidence based policy making. have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g., have an account, but choose to use some non-bank money orders (e.g.,

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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

JULY 10, 2013

Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned as a highly profitable cash cow. He decided to go after Salesforce.com with a Software-as-a-Service Customer Relationship Management product at a price-point that was one sixth of what Salesforce.com, the market leader, charged. And play he did.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

What this is really about, said Audrey Choi, head of global sustainable finance at Morgan Stanley, is “redefining how mainstream investment managers understand risk.” As Andrew Haldane and Richard Davies of the Bank of England documented in 2011 , “[c]apital market myopia is real. It may be rising.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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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." HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot.

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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

APRIL 5, 2018

Back east, established firms worked with big banks to launch new enterprises. If you have an idea to apply mature technology to a well-understood problem, it’s relatively easy to get it financed. In the Bay Area, however, small venture capitalists, many of whom were ex-engineers themselves, invested in entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Nor do I have to convince leaders to develop new competencies: experience taught them that self-awareness, being able to deal with ambiguity, manage continual change, devolve leadership, and coach their people and are critical to their survival. I hope 2011 will be a calmer ride, though I very much doubt this will be the case.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Stephanie Niven written by Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog, for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. the brokerage firm formerly known as Dain Rauscher) and spent 2011 as chairman of the main securities-industry trade group, SIFMA. That thought kept coming back to me as I read John Taft's new book Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street. Got all that?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

Much has been made of the fact that a new breed of financial technology (or fintech) companies is unbundling banks in the developed world. Startups are attacking all of the components of the traditional bank value proposition (e.g., accounts, portfolio management, mortgages, car loans, person-to-person payments).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The report also explains the wide range of measures companies are adopting to tackle the complexity; from cutting down management layers to simplifying product portfolios and processes. 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

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. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. What more proof does one need? Long road ahead.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. This book states the case for more of a macro-focused approach to management. People are envious of the power, status and wealth of company heads.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. A sales person is trying to sell them something. Thanks Roland… [link] Ryan You are absolutely right.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. Entrepreneurial, small business management. Human resources management. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. Generally speaking, firm management did not ensure proper controls and oversight at CIO as its trades became more complex and risky.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) Worse still, equity-holders often have risk-taking incentives out of line with the interests of other bank stakeholders, much less society. billion of Goldman's $28.81 billion in net revenue.

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