Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

And as women, we can learn a great deal about how we behave in the work world; not to imitate our male counterparts, to align with them in positive, productive ways. In the masculine model of success, power and prestige take precedence, compassion, and long term consequences are secondary. Think about our world at this time.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While confidence can be mistaken for arrogance, and vice-versa, they are clearly not interchangeable terms. I think not. When you think of yourself as a leader do you view yourself as having the quiet confidence of David or the boastful arrogance of Goliath?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Sidebar : This post was inspired by a conversation I had last month Mark Oakes ( @MarkOOakes ) about the historical origin of the term&# Plan B.&# Great planning (so long as it's not overdone) actually catalyzes velocity. Thanks for shedding light on a topic that has far too long remained in the dark!

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Sell relationships not just a service or product. Yes, a good product may encourage sporadic customers but a good relationship will establish long-term, loyal customers. Take something that has already been done and repackage it in a way that attracts or addresses a need from a different target market! Sell what you love.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I really don’t have a problem with increasing efficiency so long as the tail doesn’t start wagging the dog. If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. What I want you to recognize is that sometimes the least efficient thing can be lead to the most productive outcome.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In fact, more likely is the case that the opportunity will completely evaporate if you wait too long to seize it. I’ve observed the risk adverse take due diligence one step too far, the greedy negotiate too long, the impulsive jump the gun, and the plodders move to slow. As the saying goes “timing is everything.&#

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Thanks for sharing Todd.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. “My way or the highway&# leadership styles don’t play well in today’s world, will result in a fractured culture, and ultimately a non-productive organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you rolled-out a new product?

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

HP announced Whitman’s appointment on September 22, 2011 but given the public comments, customers seem to think it’s a bad choice. The HP Board of Directors has to be focused on prevention and good business practices to build a long term strategy. HP Has Decreasing Product Quality. Take for example my LaserJet printer.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! You don’t have to rip off the band-aid and do it all at one time.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Influencing skills. Collaborative decision making and problem solving.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals. The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Clarity of Purpose : Everyone who works for me knows that I care about them as an individual.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

He then proceeded to communicate in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t nearly as concerned about the faults he would find, as he was about how our leader (guess who?) No one remains a leader long without being competent. People will not long support someone who's going nowhere. link] Mike Henry Sr. Great reminder Mike.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 20, 2011

All these and more speak to the fact that communication is almost always best when aligned with the natural human tendency to think and learn in terms of stories. Otherwise, all your knowledge and preparation and results and platitudes and conclusions will hardly even be heard - much less understood or long remembered.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example, we might call a long-term customer on the day his annual report is due, and take it personally when he doesn’t have the bandwidth to give us feedback on our new product offering, or we might take rejection personally when a new sales call tells us it’s not a good time, not knowing that he’s late for his anniversary dinner.

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

» January 02, 2011 The Wasting of Your Life There seems to be no limit to the number of varying interpretations of how one is to view the concept of "wealth." " The term itself deserves the quotes thus employed in the previous sentence because it conjures in people's minds many different definitions.

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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. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. In fact, some of the toughest leaders I know are the most compassionate leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. 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. Dickens Jr.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me. They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. The strongest leaders are in fact the most compassionate leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. As always, I welcome your comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments myersk Agree.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

In my opinion politically correct thinking is a large contributor to a decrease in workplace productivity, and of greater concern, to the moral and ethical decay of our society. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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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. Your comment got me thinking, which grew long enough to warrant a blog post: [link]. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2011

If you are a functional expert, say in HR or finance, you might tend to think your skills are transferrable and can be applied anywhere. Human Resources in a consumer goods company, which might be product and sales oriented, is quite different from an industrial company where manufacturing plants and unions are the order of the day.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

While there were clearly a few moments last week that I found instructionally valuable in terms of creating a game changer ( Nando Parrado ), there weren’t nearly enough of them. A lesson that I learned long ago is that you simply cannot experience sustainable improvement without transformation. It is about people.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. link] Scott Eblin Earlier this year, I spent an amazing afternoon with the wounded warriors at the Mologne House which is the long term lodging facility at Walter Reed Army Hospital.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Most innovation investments, such as product improvement, technological innovation, and research and development (R&D) traditionally aim at strengthening the innovation capacity of the organization. ” By 2011, two-thirds of Xerox’s revenues came from products or services it had introduced within the last two years.

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Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

Dispassionatescientists have long debated the originality of his many inventions found onlyin his sketchbooks – little evidence exists that he ever actually built or testedany of these ideas. After a long day at work and feeling as though I have not accomplished anything meaningful I am energized by the thought that I am on the right track.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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