N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. John says, “It's about the developing core networking places and participating, getting involved, and establishing a leadership position. Chamber New Member Orientation.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

But what's really going on is that Jeff Bezos has trained elements of the investment community to expect that low profits (or big losses) now represent investments that will eventually pay off, not signs of trouble. Amazon has this permission because it has trained its shareholders to believe that everything will work out in the end.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Second, with the public declarations by many companies to help with the goals , there is likely to be competitive pressure. Some companies could get a jumpstart in their industry in organizing partnerships and even positioning themselves as leaders in sustainable development using the goals as a branding anchor. The case is clear.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. System Development Time. First, there is the time required to develop AI systems. We think this is a bad idea. Human Interactions with AI Time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

The Lean Startup is an approach to developing new products that came out of “Agile” software development, with “sprints” (quick deliverables) and fast learning. At their training center in Louisville, they bounced ideas and product prototypes off of retail salespeople who came to learn about GE’s products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2013

When "the core functions of IT — data storage, data processing, and data transport — have become available and affordable to all," he wrote, IT would cease to be a source of competitive advantage. How do companies differentiate in a world where access to technology is no longer a competitive advantage?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

The model was honed by Jack Welch in the 1980s and 1990s, with new portfolio restructuring strategies and a headlong expansion into finance. Fourth, some argued that GE’s advantage lay in its system of professional management, epitomized by its investments in executive education and management development.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These inward-looking groups were able to impose discipline on their practice: enforcing standards, mentoring and training new entrants, and refining and building on old expertise to create new more valuable knowledge. How does one put a check on this kind of unproductive jousting?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Citing Richard Peterson, managing partner of MarketPsych (a firm that provides psychological and behavioral finance training for the industry), DeCovny notes that these are some of the traits that also predict success on Wall Street. To understand the implications of all this, it helps to define psychopathy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One reason for the paltry performance is that while other business areas, like sales or finance, are considered to be core functions, innovation is often considered to be something that’s “nice to have” rather than essential. Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

companies like Clari forecasting client-by-client sales to help prioritize deals) and with coaching and training (Textio’s* predictive text-editing platform to help employees write more-effective documents). Luckily, though finding the right talent may be hard, the tools that developers need to build this software is readily available.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? your training program in 3 easy steps: No boring slides, free will, and story. Why should we make this investment?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. My leadership training is from the Marine Corps. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. For one thing, they will have a competitive advantage in the political environment we have entered.

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