N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. Leadership Practices to Watch.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Leadership : There are a number of ways to get in trouble here…poor leadership, no leadership, or fractionalized leadership can all be quite problematic. We are just arriving at the place where the consistency of our marketing is in compliance with all other aspects of our church. Thanks for sharing Tom.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Just because you have hired the best possible people for every leadership role in your company doesn’t mean they are all going to get along all the time. Perhaps the technology team want to spend more time developing an upgrade to your product, but the finance team insist the money is better spent elsewhere. Expect conflict.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Coronation marks a new era of leadership, vision and progress under the British monarchy. The session was entitled “Technology and Business Collaboration: Leadership and Management” and was moderated by Dr Alan Miller CMgr FCMI (former CMI Hong Kong Regional Board Member).

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

Consolidated HR Operations What is an HRIS? An HRIS consolidates HR data and processes in one place, enabling cost savings and streamlined operations compared to using disparate tools. The benefits of HRIS not only improve organization and accessibility but also enhance data security and compliance with record-keeping regulations.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Erni: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. I can honestly say that, after working at several companies, we’re unique in the way our employees and senior leadership embrace challenges as genuinely as we do at Audible.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Ernie: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. I can honestly say that, after working at several companies, we’re unique in the way our employees and senior leadership embrace challenges as genuinely as we do at Audible.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. When it comes to internal communication, many organizations are primarily focused on direct and frequent communications from leadership urging their people to be calm about how they deal with the aftermath.

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

As a larger operation, it gets a bit tougher. operates their own business. One of the more complicated tasks for a business owner is being able to correctly classify the people working for you. As a one man shop. it it’s fairly easy, when you pull someone in it is a temporary arrangement. Independent Contractors.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? Thanks 4 Women Entrepreneurs January 21st, 2011 at 8:19 pm Great post. I think showing love is something that will really come back to you in the end, even in the business world. Interesting thoughts. Thanks for posting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. Instead, he called this an operations and compliance issue, perhaps not realizing that both of those functions influence corporate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Late last month, on the second anniversary of the story nearly to the day, Walmart released its first Global Compliance Report (GCR). Certainly an important goal for Walmart’s board and current management is to improve the company’s compliance capability. Think GM and its delays in addressing problems with an ignition switch.).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Change management certainly tested us. I just didn’t know in what ways.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2016

In leadership writing, one of the most widely sold leadership textbooks ( The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner) concludes that love is “the secret to life” and consider it the “best kept secret” of great leadership. Love is like an operating system.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

And when misclassification is adopted as a business strategy by some companies, it quickly undermines other, more responsible employers who face costs disadvantages arising from compliance with labor standards and responsibilities. All of these issues rushed back to mind recently when the political leadership at the current U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” Institute compliance checks to ensure that management adheres to company policies.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. As a great organizational scholar, James March, once noted, “ Leadership involves plumbing as well as poetry.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. The Leadership Structure. First order of business: Build a leadership team. Where We Started. Straightforward, right? The data were startling.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In reality, “handoffs” and transitions prove to be significant operational problems. Audit software and human monitors were soon installed to assure compliance. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. The top-down approach invariably creates interpersonal and inter-process frictions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). These leadership challenges may seem familiar, but in a bureaucracy they are, if anything, magnified.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? rogue traders in finance). A New York Times investigation described Uber as a “Hobbesian environment…in which workers are pitted against one another and where a blind eye is turned to infractions from top performers.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

operates in 13 countries, spanning a dozen languages. Would you communicate with your compliance department that way? At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. It might also include political capital that arises from membership of or strong ties to a high status group such as the finance committee, a special task force, or the senior management team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2014

Like my partner, with whom I co-founded our finance services company. According to research by Langowitz and Allen, (link here) the success of new ventures is inextricably connected with the style and leadership of their founders, so companies need to be careful about maintaining cultural integrity when one of those founders leaves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It must be led not by staff, but by business leaders who devote appropriate resources, hire outstanding people and embed the prevent, detect and respond activities deeply in business operations. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Engaging institutional leadership in the outcomes or quality domain – representing the numerator of the value equation – is vital to begin measuring outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.

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