N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley has earned a worldwide reputation for excellence in financial advice … Securities, Investment Banking… Today Blogs Scopulus Business Resources This site is a gateway for business information and resources for business people and professionals in large corporations to small and medium size companies in the UK.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Communicate policies and procedures to employees. Written, consistent policies with payables and receivables are followed. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Personnel Policies and Procedures are written, and distributed to all employees.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank has since fired 5,300 employees for the illegal behavior and eliminated retail bank sales goals entirely. As a result of this fraud, the bank is now being investigated by Federal prosecutors and Congressional overseers. But the fallout is far from over. A blind spot among senior leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

About the Authors Ed Cohen & Priscilla Nelson, partners at Nelson Cohen Global Consulting ( www.NelsonCohen.com ), provide thought leadership and strategic guidance to leaders and companies around the world. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Santander: building trust and stability through brand Unlike many of its financial services competitors, Santander emerged from the financial crisis, relatively unscathed. subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

This changes the balance of politics in Europe, the balance of politics towards the US, the balance of policies about regulation in a whole variety of industries and trade. So there are a lot of long-term, constitutional policy issues that it’s going to take a lot of work to offset, set in motion by this.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After weeks of media frenzy around the Greek election and the new government’s once-ambitious plans to renegotiate with the Eurozone over its debt crisis , the searchlights of publicity are shifting. Greece appears also to lose control of the €11 billion reserves of the Greek banking stability fund.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

While much can be said about internal dynamics within Greece, we shouldn’t underestimate the impact of some global thought leaders who have shaped opinion not only internationally but also in Greece, making its crisis a cause célèbre for progressive economists. There is some truth to the criticism.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

One response to today’s climate crisis has been a belief that markets and corporate innovation will provide the solution. Through a detailed qualitative analysis, we examined company reports, media releases, policy statements, and over 70 interviews conducted with senior managers from these companies. We get back to core stuff.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2011

This year my organization decided to give an award for "excellence in leadership," and among the elements of excellence we expect to see in the winner, we're putting one criterion front and center: the nominees' commitment to gender diversity in their leadership ranks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We had to put in a daycare center, a catering center, provide cash because there was no way for people to take money out of the bank, provide cars for people, especially reporters, to get around. Crisis brings opportunities to explore uncharted territories. These opportunities sprouted from the crisis. and Caribbean.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

Jamie Dimon is still CEO of JP Morgan Chase, despite financial controversies and big legal settlements of the kind that toppled CEOs of other banks; he has guided the cleanup process, apparently effectively. Boeing CEO Jim McNerny tackled the life-threatening battery problem on the new 787 Dreamliner aircraft, going from crisis to triumph.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I don't know what sexy acronym our leading investment banks' rock-star economists will come up with next, but I hope their indicators will start to factor in whether a large population is being harnessed or whether it is seething youth bulge, and whether economic growth is coming at the cost of ecological sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

India began morphing from a highly protected economy to a liberalizing one in the 1990s, following a balance of payments crisis. b) Regulations: The regulatory environment, particularly for the banking and financial sectors, went through major changes. Decisive leadership characterized all the firms that emerged as winners.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

I've been following the unfolding Libor scandal and Barclays Bank , and still don't know how far, where, and to what cost this will go. The work is guided by top-level policy that clearly articulates the importance of quality data, especially for data that leave the firm. Greed is central to human nature — and can be an asset.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

It is what many countries around the world aspire to, what economists recommend, and what international agencies such as the IMF and World Bank encourage developing and emerging economies around the world to adopt. Boards Leadership Mergers & Acquisitions' Even in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Amadeo Giannini , the founder of Bank of America, rescued all funds from his bank after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Other banks were in smoldering ruins and unable to operate. A company stands a risk of losing market leadership and corporate reputation. He used that to lend to customers few days after the disaster.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted. Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

The people who set the compensation policy guidelines at these two firms are not paid like CEOs or hedge fund managers, and lots of thought and empirical research go into their recommendations. So paying bank CEOs mostly in stock is a recipe for a financial crisis. Boards Compensation Leadership' Larcker, Allan L.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Banks are now adequately capitalized and are beginning to lend, and venture capitalists are as hungry as ever. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. Your leadership is crucial. Economy Execution Leadership' Here are some steps you should take to build for 2014-2015: 1.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies. In 1999, the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need? EC Sheedy Fascinating!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. Obviously i try and do the deal myself with my bank, but if i cannot, being the person who provided the solution is the next best thing. Thanks Roland… [link] Ryan You are absolutely right. I send people to a competitor?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Admittedly, guilt culture showed little enthusiasm for criminally sanctioning executives involved in the 2008 banking crisis. financial crisis. Three former Anglo Irish Bank executives were sentenced to just a few years for conspiring to mislead investors, depositors, and lenders. The fraudulent €7.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. Risk modeling in the banks grew out of probability theory.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

That seems somewhat surprising given that the Euro economic crisis seems to have tailed off, or at least plateaued. Clearly the economics of Europe are better than they were in the teeth of the Eurozone crisis. But the fact is that when there’s a big economic crisis, we are capable of responding. I think the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. And when Derek had lost his job during the financial crisis, Rogier had invited him to join Contect.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

More on: Innovation , Strategy Join the Discussion | Email/Share Previous Why You Should Focus on "Worst Practices" Next The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable Never miss a new post from your favorite blogger again with the Harvard Business Review Daily Alert email. And its those small steps that count. All rights reserved.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

You’ll know as you read this interview – the wealth of leadership wisdom, strategic foresight, and transformative insights shared by Norm Smallwood—a luminary shaping tomorrow’s leadership landscape–will completely reframe how you look at the modern workplace! We labeled these foundational competencies the “leadership code”.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

Export-Import Bank will hit its $100 billion credit exposure limit by May 1 and will stop issuing direct loans, loan guarantees and export-credit insurance in aid of American exports to risky markets. Then, on May 31, the legislation authorizing the Bank will expire, threatening the Bank's very existence.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2011

While the pundits continue to parse the no-win "deal" and the bloviators bemoan the failures of leadership, the rest of us might take the opportunity to consider the benefits of being uncompromising. Everything is open for discussion: the strategic plan, HR policy, project plans and everyone is part of the conversation. "By

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