Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. offers the broadest scope of recovery-funded business opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In fact, your influence quotient will be a much greater determinant of your ultimate success than your “Intelligence Quotient” could ever be. Not only is true influence not difficult to acquire, but it is also sustainable when you understand the proper constructs.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

These CEOs can often go undiscovered for great lengths of time before their poorly constructed vision bubbles-up to the surface, by which time it is often too late to repair the damage. link] Bridget Haymond I agree completely that vision is the underpinning of any successful venture, be it corporate or personal.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Sadly, the reality is messaging is so impactful that it will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance. When it comes to the construction of messaging, I have found that people will tend to fall into one of the four following groups. pastortom2022 Great message Mike and your credibility speaks for itself.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

While I believe bonus structures to be a key component of successful compensation plans, if current employees are generally happy with the existing comp plan and are hitting performance goals there may not be the need to add another layer to the comp plan. I personally dont feel bonuses work to promote a good work ethic. Happy Holidays.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Turning the other cheek, compromise, forgiveness, compassion, empathy, finding common ground, being an active listener, service above self, and numerous other approaches will always allow one to be successful in building rapport if the underlying desire is strong enough. This is such a common problem for executives that I coach.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Vision statements, as implied in the construction of the phraseology itself, put forth a statement of envisioned future. This vision, if successful, must be underpinned by core ideology and then expressed with clarity and conviction. Best wishes for continued success Sir. THANKS FOR THIS GREAT POST.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

What do you regret most about your career? But judging from the scores of follow-up questions and the volume of post-lecture emails I received, a talk on career regret would have been the real bull's-eye. Importantly, the effects of bad career decisions and disconfirmed expectancies were felt equally across age groups.

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Chris Brady

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Maybe we haven't been properly educated in the game of success. And the truth about high achievement and success is that it occurs on purpose, by design, through the tremendous commitment and persistence of individuals who have chosen the harder path. The first component, hard work, is an unavoidable component in success.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

I listened to esteemed business school professors, two Nobel laureates, bestselling authors, and some of the world’s most successful CEOs. Real game changers understand the power of people and relationships, and they embody this in both their construction and implementation. Thanks for laying out key success factors.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Success in business begins with your people. But what distinguishes success is the recognition that businesses are driven not just by customers but by employees as well. But what distinguishes success is the recognition that businesses are driven not just by customers but by employees as well.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These are all useful things to do, and successful executives invest time in them periodically. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

In Greece, acquiring construction permits, registering property, and enforcing contracts in courts require vast amounts of paperwork and time. We need to teach children to be courageous enough to take risks throughout their careers and to deal with the failures that unavoidably occur. And it all starts in school.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Pinar Yildirim of Wharton thinks it would be more successful. Then it was owned by a California billionaire who built resorts and eventually tried to construct a wind farm, which provoked protests. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does."

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload. Image: Gareth Lock Train hard, fight easy Gareth also has a 25-year RAF career behind him. Those outside who are looking in, informed by hindsight, can see which paths lead to success and which end in disaster.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Witnessing the downward-spiral of Carla Sanders' career was painful — yet her experience offers an important commentary on the requirements of executive leadership in today's organizations. Carla was literally bred for success as a business manager. Shortly thereafter, the pace of her career progress began to stall.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2013

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”. Career planning Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2011

And Mark Perry , a professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan, puts it in perspective with a handy chart.). Second, I discovered that the financial projections supporting the construction of our shiny new building assume significant enrollment and tuition rate increases into the foreseeable future.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. Professionals from the banking, finance, investing, and accounting worlds. And more are joining every day. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. I cant imagine a successful HR function or any other function that makes isolated decisions. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. I cant imagine a successful HR function or any other function that makes isolated decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Two well-known companies have also made auctions famous, and economists have played central roles in the success of each. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Let go from a successful career in finance, with no new opportunities on the horizon, Priya bravely decided to write a book about careers and meaning. Yet, Priya''s little parable tells us: reasons aren''t rational; they are larger than that: they are constructive. Consider the story of my good friend Priya.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Boards need to ensure that an operations orientation is a key criterion for succession planning in organizations where process improvement is a strategic imperative. Boards need to ensure that an operations orientation is a key criterion for succession planning in organizations where process improvement is a strategic imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

. “It’s probably a frustration you haven’t had for a while — and if you’re a relatively new manager, you might not have ever experienced this before,” says Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

This guide was developed as a way to ensure successful 2X2X2 executive developmental job changes and be a vaccination against possible derailment. Make sure the executive understands that a developmental move does not lower the standards – while making sure all of the support systems are in place to ensure their success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” The two men went way back. ” “And Russia?”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Over the course of our careers, and through our formal research on mentoring within and outside of academia, we’ve found that good mentoring is discipline-agnostic. Mentors trade away hours they could use to pursue their own career goals and spend them on someone else’s. As academic physicians, we do a lot of mentoring.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I know that finance professors at business schools throughout the nation teach MBAs and executives that, for the sake of economic efficiency, a company should “maximize shareholder value.” Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. I disagree with this priority. That’s just 2.1% Employee incentives.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2010

Ford’s success with social media is well documentd in numerous case studies, and can largely be attributed to Scott’s efforts. Make those around you successful. Think of any successful leader and you’ll find they consistently get the job done. Think “selfless” as opposed to “selfish.” Be Trustworthy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I had an idea of constructing a certain statistical procedure. It was the form in which the asset was financed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I was at a dinner with eight highly successful professional women recently, ranging in age from 35 to 74. Their stories were typical of research I have been conducting on dual-career couples. Her husband continued his career. Anything in between ends up being a morale- and career-sapping morass.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Nando is an exceptional human being whose philosophy can be boiled down into two of the quotes given in his presentation: “ I fought so hard for life that I decided to have a life &# & “ life is success.&# My favorite thought by Renee was: “ Success rests on pushing the creativity frontier.

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