N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If you approach conflict from the perspective of taking the action that will help others best achieve their goals you will find few obstacles will stand in your way with regard to resolving conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. If you crush the individual character and spirit of those who form your team, how can your team operate at its best?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

They are simply meant to foster a spirit of cooperation. You deserve input – but that done not mean that 100% agreement is the goal. Consensus isn’t the goal. I particularly liked: "Consensus isn't the goal. A team helps to create the best foundation for a decision or action. Good input is.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

In low-income countries, according to World Bank data in a recent paper by the consultancy Dalberg, 43% of businesses with between 20 and 99 employees say that access to finance is a major constraint. The White House has called this gap between the demand and supply of finance for small and medium enterprises a "market failure.[and]

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Establish Common Goals. Define the Respective Roles of Competition and Cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. Organizations can leverage other core goals to motivate reform.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

On average, common ownership concentration has almost doubled in the last 20 years in the construction, manufacturing, finance, and services sectors. They may choose it for other reasons, for example, to encourage cooperation or innovation. It’s possible that increased cooperation between firms benefits consumers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

This includes getting buy-in toward a common goal. The General Manager and his team seemed not to realize that these disparate goals were a fundamental problem — both for the division's performance and for employee inner work life. In fact, we saw conditions that actually pitted departments against one another.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, comprising 27 countries including the United States, illustrates the potential for a bottom-up approach. Slowly but steadily, the two sets of standards are converging.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The Working World, which provides loans to worker-owned cooperatives in the U.S. But, in my view, one of the key lessons from microfinance is that when we come together as an industry in pursuit of a goal, we can achieve it — we just need to make sure to choose our goals wisely.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Third, growing impact investing will take collaboration and cooperation. We anticipate that millennials’ growing commitment to impact investing on multiple dimensions — dollars committed, deals completed, financial returns achieved, and development goals addressed. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues'

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

The goal is to ensure the actual time spent without a job is short, while the level of qualification (and compensation) is preferably kept up when a new job is found. It offers the unemployed relatively high levels of financial support, as well as generous retraining opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

It endeavors to stimulate cooperation across divisions (by repeatedly shouting really loudly that this should happen), sets up corporate shared services (which invariably are seen as a mere cost and nuisance by its divisional heads), and gives a lot of lip service to creating "cross-divisional synergies.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

At the end of the day, organizations are collections of people; this means that superior organizations need more effective ways for them to cooperate and work toward a common goal. My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The goal in business is to bring in more money than you spend over the long run. To do that, you need to obtain the cooperation, support, and goodwill of many people. Meanwhile, the underlying interpersonal dynamics—the methods of creating and managing relationships—are fundamentally unchanged.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Ventures should compete and cooperate with ventures, regardless of their nationalities. This measurable goal will help focus attention and galvanize stakeholders into action. We don't innovate in entrepreneurial finance enough in the U.S.: How about if, as nations, we win together? Publish a "sell-by" date for Start-Up America.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Adjust strategies to meet goals. Transform your workforce from a team of individuals who wait for orders to a cooperative force that acts proactively to make decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Besides whatever damage the conflict could do to U.S. Such market shares will create a platform for global juggernauts.

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