N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning The importance of succession planning cannot be overstated in ensuring an organization’s longevity and growth. A carefully designed mechanism to maintain a steady stream of capable leaders at various levels within an organization.

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Planning Succession 360-Degree Feedback Balanced Scorecard 217

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you sometimes feel like your organization is flailing, barely able to keep up with the pace of change? And organizations need more individual leaders who can help everyone navigate through the new, speeded-up and volatile world. Have you been disrupted recently? You are not alone.

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Balanced Scorecard Innovation Globalization Micromanagement 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 13

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Have you celebrated organizations that succeeded? The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

John Cassidy has eloquently argued in the New Yorker that banks are largely "socially useless" organizations, which create what Ive termed thin value — they blow up every few years, when their "profits" are revealed to be as bogus as a three dollar bill, and people and societies are left holding the bag.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15