Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2023

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Despite their different approaches, every CEO at every stage of their tenure meaningfully tended to all six responsibilities. The best CEOs kept all six plates spinning at all times, even if the external and internal environment meant that some needed to be spun faster or slower than others,” explain the authors.

CEO 65

CEO Banking Learning-by-Doing McKinsey 65

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience and influence. What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment.

Influence 321

Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 321

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Eventually, we transitioned to a national model with eight regional fulfillment centers, evolving from a local market model to a regionalized footprint. Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Focus on the Why. To learn more visit, www.freeman.com.

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COO Supply Chain Globalization Learning-by-Doing 132

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. The N2growth Blog is pleased to announce its inclusion in the list.

Directory 167

Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

Blog 417

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills.

Blog 420

Blog Brand Consultative Depreciation 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Financial markets are not working for charities and social enterprises today. Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

Blog 419

Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

The Costco experience isn’t what it used to be, US auto manufacturers continue to struggle, the banking industry has been crippled, and government agencies (pick one…USPS, IRS, DMV, etc.) often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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Blog Succession Influence Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets.

Blog 387

Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

Banking 8

Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. How will the crisis of problematic loans in Italian banks be resolved?

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

Wall Street analysts influence markets and companies daily. No wonder CEOs and CFOs spend significant amounts of time communicating with the influential analysts covering their firms. And we found that banking analysts’ forecasts are in fact biased in favor of potential future employers.

Banking 8

Banking Price Analysis Advice 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Business Success Checklist.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A few of the bullet points: • Banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have $1.5 trillion in capital — the highest capital levels in the history of American banking. • Investment banks used to all be partnerships. But in financial markets, it's problematic. The largest U.S.

Finance 13

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity. The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else.

Blog 419

Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Strive Masiyiwa was interviewing him to be CEO of the Nigeria telecoms venture lead by Econet Group, which Strive founded and chairs. ’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

CEO 8

CEO Real Estate Long-term Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). The data with which is used to make decisions must be accurate, consistent, and reliable.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

It’s getting harder and harder for entrepreneurs to create a product or service that is truly “ brand new “ That is, something revolutionary that creates a market of its own. These three entrepreneurs are seizing on what they believe are weaknesses in existing markets – will they succeed?

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Entrepreneur Banking Finance Industry 295

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. By endorsing performance-insensitive compensation packages, broadly diversified investors are indeed incentivizing CEOs for good performance. To understand this new explanation for seemingly exorbitant CEO pay, it’s important to understand a recent, fundamental shift in the ownership of U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Asset Management Cooper Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Many other major financial institutions — Bank of America , Citigroup, HSBC, Barclay’s, Wells Fargo, UBS, etc. But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Manipulation of energy markets. LIBOR rate rigging.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The analysis, which focuses on global companies, looked at CEOs’ approval ratings among staff; the ratio of women to men on the board; frequency of complaints; the companies’ performance on social networks; and the impact of controversy such as ethical lapses, scandals, and fines — among other metrics. Procter & Gamble.

Tourism 8

Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

It's co-authored with a couple new colleagues of his at the Bank of England (one a former tax lawyer , the other a physicist ), and scores higher than average on the Haldane wonkiness scale. Which is an interesting thing for the executive director of financial stability at the Bank of England to be doing.

Banking 11

Banking Long-term Short-term Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

Company 13

Company Finance Price IPO 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

it's the behavior of industrial age institutions — corporations, banks, governments — that's the invisible fist of this great crisis. And the wisdom group's lifeblood wouldn't be in the hands of a finance team — but in the hands of what you might call a significance team. So here's a thought.

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Unless you are willing to bootstrap yourself to some degree of validation of your concept, and can convince investors that there is real demand for what you offer, and a really large market, no one will write a check. Let''s suppose your idea is a good, viable business idea, but not a billion dollar market opportunity. And play he did.

Incubator 8

Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. So, we begin by assuming that the traditional path offers cash compensation equal to the average starting salary.

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Consultative CAGR EBITDA CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. CEOs will need to shift their mindset now if they want to avoid their own “Kodak moment.”

Industry 9

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2014

CEOs are proactively engaging with emerging market government to spur economic development and create opportunities for their companies. If we see a country where reward outweighs the risk, we want to invest,” CEO Jeff Immelt says in Success in Africa. I recently spent some time with Bob Diamond, the former CEO of Barclays.

Globalization 8

Globalization Development Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

For example, I know a bank executive who had twenty years of great community banking experience, but no bachelor's degree. When his institution was bought out, no other bank would even consider him for a job. But if you plan on being in the job market for ten or more years, you should consider making the investment.

Career 8

Career Skills Cost-Benefit Analysis Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Behavioral science research tell us that households, small business owners, and CEOs of multinationals alike are prone to overweight recent adverse events, follow the decisions of their peers , compartmentalize risks , and engage in many other behaviors that economists have traditionally considered peculiar.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8