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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. All of these traits preclude the advancement of change initiatives and cripple innovation. I want metrics that mirror experience. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name.

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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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Success vs. Significance | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It's one of my great drivers to achieve significance in what I do – even if that doesn't necessarily mean success as defined by any metric you care to choose… Thanks for an interesting read! Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. Best Neil Ron Inspiring post! Success is temporal.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application. And they are allowing new sources of capital such as peer-to-peer lending to replace traditional bank capital.

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How Anne Erni is taking D&I to the next level

HR Digest

And they should prioritize doing so, as real data shows diversity of thought and perspective drives innovation and has a meaningful impact on invention, engagement and the bottom line. There are many opportunities for businesses to cultivate a culture where issues of S&B are not only embraced, but prioritized.

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How Anne Ernie is taking D&I to the next level

HR Digest

And they should prioritize doing so, as real data shows diversity of thought and perspective drives innovation and has a meaningful impact on invention, engagement and the bottom line. There are many opportunities for businesses to cultivate a culture where issues of S&B are not only embraced, but prioritized.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. (To The top 10% of the firms we analyzed — the superstars by our metric — create 80% of all the economic value, meaning they account for 80% of economic profits.