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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

having fewer options to assess based upon the new found time constraint. My final suggestion is that you take the time to review all mission critical plans to insure that the proper contingency plans have been put into place. The two most common outcomes created by a lack of contingency planning are: 1.)

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Top 30 Leadership Blogs 2010 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

You’ll note when reviewing the Top Leadership Blogs list below that I did not apply a numerical hierarchy to the rankings, but rather just disclosed my data points – I decided it would be a better list if I let you draw your own conclusions and render your own opinions. I have recently started blogging.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

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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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year. We need to streamline delivery.

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American Companies Should Stop Being Helicopter Parents

Harvard Business Review

Although there are constraints on such things as minimum balances and applicable services, the money belongs to the individual, who decides how to spend it. The genius in Singapore’s health-care system is that each individual’s stake in health-care financing is clearly visible. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

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Get Your Passion Project Moving Without Quitting Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

“Your biggest constraint is how many hours you have to devote to this side project, so commit to an end-date [when you’d ideally like to leave your job] and solve backward from there,” he says. Today he is the CEO of Medalogix, the Nashville-based health IT company, that has raised just under $7 million in financing.

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Can the "College Premium" Withstand Hyperspecialization?

Harvard Business Review

In The Age of Hyperspecialization (July-August 2011, co-authored by Tom Malone of MIT and Tammy Johns of Manpower), we note that the division of labor, a development that transformed the way physical work was accomplished during the industrial revolution, may now be poised to redefine how knowledge work gets done in the 21st century.