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Leadership Interview: Pete Wilson | N2Growth Blog

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Whether paid work or a volunteer role within a church, placing people in positions where they can maximize their strengths, know that they are truly valued and that they play a significant role in fulfilling the vision will go a long way towards preventing burn out and loosing incentive. Great interview Mike!

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

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?

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

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There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. In today’s post I’ll take a look at the well intentioned but often misguided practice of year-end bonuses… Here’s a question – do bonuses work?

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. The bankers thought even one of six might have been impossible.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

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When you find an organization in crisis, you can most times peel back the layers on poor decision, after poor decision, after poor decision. To speak "your truth" is perceived to be a potentially career limiting, if not ending move.

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Culture Trumps Strategy – Not | N2Growth Blog

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_After all, culture is defined by the behaviors that are incented and repeated inside your company. Culture is left to the human resouorces department, or just happens as a consequence of the company policies and practices. _I wrote a post on my experience on this topic a couple months back.

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Going Backwards in Europe, a Half-Step at a Time

Harvard Business Review

inhabitant of what is now looking to be the next epicenter of the Euro crisis (Italy), argued that we can never get anywhere because we keep getting halfway there. Europe's leaders keep taking steps that get them halfway (or maybe a third of the way, or a tenth of the way) to resolving the region's ongoing crisis.

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