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10 Communication Tips for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? The answer is that you’ll have reached the point where your interactions with others consistently use the following 10 principles: Speak not with a forked tongue : In most cases people just won’t open up those they don’t trust.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

It’s a mature category that is still trying to figure itself out… Because it is so competitive, it really is about understanding who you are, what you stand for, and what you don’t.”. The marketing strategy became a case study, which was added to the curriculum at places like Harvard and the London School of Business.

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business Review

On one hand, some studies find lower stock returns for dual-class firms as compared to single-class firms, lower trading prices compared to fundamentals , and higher management entrenchment, executive compensation, and value-destroying acquisitions. Other studies, however, show that dual-class structure might be optimal in certain scenarios.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Ask for case studies which were directly supervised by the person who will handle your business… not stock narratives from affiliate offices or a supervisor. What is their maturity level? Understand what your company really needs and why. Don’t pit one consultant against another, just to get free ideas.

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What Does an Aspiring Founder Need to Know?

Harvard Business Review

Respondents emphasized that the skills required by a founder change as their venture matures. ” Finance is less important. Finance received the second lowest priority score of the 10 skills areas. ” However, a few respondents made a strong case for learning about finance. Several themes emerged.

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Digital Growth Depends More on Business Models than Technology

Harvard Business Review

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

When I asked him to do research for me on case studies that proved our concepts in a practical manner, he brought me a textbook and asked me to "define" what I meant by practical, as he was looking up terms I was using and couldn't find them. One such example was a young man who was on my team with a Ph. D from Columbia.

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