N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. The brand may continue to prosper financially, but until it gets its external perception in line, it faces obstacles in the long-term.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. How will this economic crisis play out? Another is that we wake up to reality, challenge the short-term profit demands of Wall Street, get strategic and build our businesses for sustainable growth.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. " It's not unusual for us to have short discussions that end with me saying I think we should do this, any problems you can think of? I work with a small group of leaders. That's consensus.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

The challenge of sustaining long-term value pushes businesses toward considering short-term relationships as the easiest route to profits. Consider these two points: Roughly 80 percent to 90 percent of new products and services fail or drastically fall short of sales expectations in their first year. The Sincere Company.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Information overload is the management crisis of the 21stcentury. Debriefing, particularly when it is used regularly and over short time frames, helps us fulfill this need. And that alone is all well and good but we’ll miss the opportunity to create these short term wins unless we debrief. But how is this done?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 23, 2010

← Generation Wrecked: how Ontario school board’s waste yet another sign of short-term talent focus Six lessons in how to interview… from the trenches → Fast Friday: words of Wisdom from Stacey Allerton Firth Posted on April 23, 2010 by LeaderTalker | 1 Comment Be yourself… everyone else is already taken.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Look long-term at the effects of your short-term battles: the reality of peer relationships at the leadership level is that they are often competitive. While you’re competing to get more budget, headcount, resources for your team, the guy in marketing is doing the same.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? The first step in solving the problem is to deal in whole truths, not untruths or partial truths.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Giving also produces a lot of serotonin in our brains – much needed if there is a crisis or problem. Perhaps short chapters on each “ing&# ? When a leader gives him or herself to all employees in very helpful ways a new sense of transparency and trust develops. Thanks again! I love seeing all the additions.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 20, 2010

Most short-term strategies are like that. And that means move on… not move on, grab your pension or gold handshake, and then re-contract yourself back into your old job on your own terms at a triple pay rate. Training the next generation of leaders isn’t. They’re easy and comfortable and that’s why we do it. Happy leading!

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 16, 2010

Generation Wrecked: how Ontario school board’s waste yet another sign of short-term talent focus → Like Be the first to like this post. Skip to content Home Welcome! ← Jerks, narcissists and psychopaths… oh my. When working for a lousy leader might pay off. Bookmark the permalink.

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Roundtable Talk

APRIL 5, 2010

Don’t create short-term satisfaction to the detriment of the longer term strategy or position. The affects of these changes reach beyond them into their family and community so choose your strategy wisely. Pick your hills to die on… and then stick to them. Don’t compromise when you have made a crucial decision.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How does the concept help business people make critical trade-offs between short and long term or between competing, legitimate concerns of stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers and shareowners? Among the questions they raise: shareholder value over what time frame? Does stock price accurately reflect intrinsic value?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 12, 2010

I expect, given that it is a relatively young term (having been ‘born’ in 1970), it is also subject to wide interpretation. Perhaps it is that many of us, when we think of the term Servant Leadership, take this subservient perspective (a.k.a. link] LeadershipNews: A Leadership Crisis or a Branding Issue?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Many intertwined causes have led to this crisis, from reduced access to substance-abuse treatment, to increased unemployment spurring use of prescription opioids, to online pharmacies that illegally supply prescription opioids to patients. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images. We found that among a sample of 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

After a bit of head scratching the Fed decided to try something else — the "twist" — where they bought short-term assets in exchange for long-term securities to try and lower long-term rates. The European Union forgot to build a fiscal instrument and that's why they have a Euro crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I'm looking forward to learning from you in 2011. We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. I'm looking forward to 2011 and I appreciate your advice and friendship. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling. link] Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Some even argued that they'd caused the financial crisis. of GDP in 2011. Coggan is the Buttonwood columnist for the Economist and used to write the Short View and Long View columns for the FT (he was also my neighbor when I lived in London just over a decade ago). has terms imposed on it by creditor nations such as China.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

In 2011, for example, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission claimed that executives’ compensation systems contributed to the Great Recession by offering enormous rewards for financial gains and few penalties for losses. However, these outcomes are not always positive. I analyzed the top 1,500 U.S.

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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. They often kill any long-term strategic initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The latest Euro crisis summit was different from the 19 others that preceded it in one very important respect: The PR department of the EU played this one very well. The Irish government, with a GDP in 2011 of close to 160 billion euros, has committed at least 64 billion euros to its banks. The ESM is 750 billion-with-a-B Euros.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I have no doubt that the BBC will emerge stronger from this latest crisis, but for this to happen, its leaders must answer some critical questions about its current challenges: Dual role at the top: One of the BBC's biggest weaknesses is its top leader's dual role as director-general and editor-in-chief. These are tough challenges.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. Each ended in crisis. By the end of the year, the government owed $29 billion in short-term dollar debt, banks owed $25 billion in foreign CDs, on top of other foreign debt — and there weren't remotely enough dollars in Mexico to go around. Why can the U.S. The difference isn't their debt and deficits.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. In contrast, loans to larger firms have risen every year since hitting bottom in 2011, and are now up about 4% since that low point. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. I would encourage you to read a previous post on “ Workforce Reduction.&#

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2012

Although the show has now grossed more than $160 million (a blockbuster by Broadway standards), it was widely ridiculed before its opening in 2011 for out-of-control costs, production delays, cast departures, rehearsal injuries and a preview debacle. The media likened Spider-Man to the Titanic. Ignore the outside noise. Stay imaginative.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The announcement made the board seem oblivious to the fact that these issues have been center stage since the beginning of the financial crisis and, in fact, are of signal importance to the whole financial services industry and, indeed, to all major corporations. A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise.

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