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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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

This we believed to be particularly true in terms of the sorts of brands that we were going to be offering. It was going to be, what Katie terms, ‘a revolving closet for every woman in America.’ That was all that we had in mind as we started off on this. We are still waiting to see how it will all pan out.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

What’s worse is that barring any Congressional action on this, the Bush law mandated that the estate tax would return in 2011–at 55% with an estate exemption of $1 million, the lowest exemption amount we’ve seen for many years. So at least in the short term, we have a solution to the estate tax dilemma.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

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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Blog Leadership Servant Leader Long-term 419

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.

Blog 420

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

These include selfishness, possessiveness, emotional immaturity, short-term focus, and a lack of taking responsibility for their actions. Included in this list is our physical bodies and health, our finances, our relationships, and the world in which we live.  Take, for instance, the concept of stewardship. I could go on. 

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Letter Short-term Learning-by-Doing Finance 117

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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Rogers Short-term Blog Letter 124

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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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. In short, what I needed for him to do was paint me the picture, not give me the dimensions of the frame. We remember what we see much better than what we merely hear.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 112

Chris Brady

JANUARY 18, 2011

Everyone seems to have some sort of attachment to it, some philosophy about it, and some amount of understanding of the term. ' This is not a value judgment, as comparing something to 'bad,' but rather a term meant to describe the means to satisfy man's wants. ' But just what is this word all about? I love this.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing Blog Letter 119

QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

That choice of living a remarkable life starts with waking up to our current realities, setting your terms for the unconventional life, challenging the status quo, undertaking contrarian adventures, building serious competence, organizing your personal finances, living in possibilities and thinking about your legacy now.

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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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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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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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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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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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 344

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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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most fail far short of the owners’ ambitions. It’s every businessperson’s nightmare: his or her company is failing, dysfunctional, stuck in neutral, and/or is disappointing overall, from the finances to the customer feedback. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. But there are really only four.

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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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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

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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LBO Innovation Sample Short-term 8

Chris Brady

JULY 19, 2010

In short, from a world-view that disdains accomplishment and merit (whatone accomplishes and earns) and instead focuses upon position and power andprestige (who one is and who one knows), heroes are made out of those who seemto succeed despite the rules of effort, contribution, and earning it.

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Blog Leadership Real Estate Letter 112

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

People can be hired through the sharing economy; technology can be rented by the hour; finance can be sought for any prototype, and assets bought. This term describes the more difficult aspects of creating value, like new customer experiences, a revised service system, or new business models.

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Budgeting Innovation Business Model Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The initial investors (and their terms). Twitter 2006-2011) and vice versa (e.g., As the early team comes together, it has a short-lived opportunity to decide how it wants to do business, because culture entrenches at compound rates with each new hire - somewhere after two dozen employees, culture tends to cement.

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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. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. When all attributes are equal in a competition, the company who gets the contract has a personal connection. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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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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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 317

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2013

In 2011, the entire country of Egypt had a total internet blackout after officials ordered the country''s ISPs to flip a few switches; the Syrian government is now doing the same. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value. Over the long term, markets are efficient and generally increase in value.

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Marketing Short-term Long-term Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

of GDP in 2011. is a big shortfall — one that takes hundreds of billions of dollars of new foreign capital every year to finance — and the gap shows no signs of shrinking further. has terms imposed on it by creditor nations such as China. Still, 3.1% So why does hardly anyone seem worried about it?

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GDP Globalization Finance Short-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' So allow me.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term. If that is the case, and the faster growth generates higher profits for them over the long term, that might well compensate for any short-term losses from the disruption. Tunisia and Egypt are cases in point.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

Grow it has — the Journal reported that the US awarded 126,214 masters of business administration in the 2010-2011 school year, 74% more than ten years prior. Entitled "For Newly Minted M.B.A.s, What can we predict? If your school goes out of business, tenure doesn't mean much.

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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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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

The Weinberg trademarks, which became the Goldman trademarks, were (1) hard-nosed prudence, (2) an extreme emphasis on the partnership , with partners generally able to make serious money only after decades at the firm, and (3) the long-term cultivation of relationships with business executives and politicians. billion of Goldman's $28.81

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Hedge Long-term Banking Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

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Banking Globalization Finance Politics 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. That led to a high number of errant shipments and to customers not paying their invoices according to the terms of payment, often because they weren’t getting the correct shipments on time. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

The term “unicorns,” coined, in 2013, by Aileen Lee, founder of Cowboy Ventures , is commonly used to identify venture-backed private companies valued at $1 billion or more. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

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Company Succession Analysis Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

In 2011, U.S. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) 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.

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GDP Banking Price Crisis 9

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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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 310

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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