N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

and Canada from different organizations. “Put work first”: a workplace where nothing outside the organization (e.g., These norms take root in organizations because behaving in accordance with them is what makes someone a “man.” rogue traders in finance). rogue traders in finance).

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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

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. What about the automation of the production line? bribes and kickbacks). Just 6% are using AI in pricing.

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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

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. Define the Respective Roles of Competition and Cooperation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Riddle: What ubiquitous structure of contemporary organizations around the world makes for the best of times at work — and the worst of times, too? What about your organization — Is collaboration usually a boon, or a bane, and why? What about your organization — Is collaboration usually a boon, or a bane, and why?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Zaleznik chronicled how he saw American managers, influenced by the rising popularity of the human relations school, turn increasingly from the substantive work of organizations — creating products and services, cultivating markets, pleasing customers, cutting costs, and getting stuff done — to what he termed "psychopolitics."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscription version of its key product line, Creative Suite, causing its net income to plummet by almost 35% percent the following year. Investors preferred new SaaS products over product conversions and valued having a product fallback option. On April 23, 2012, Adobe Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. With a little creativity, CMOs can work with them to monetize that data to create new products and, in some cases, whole new markets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, company-wide variables, such as culture and engagement , play a big role in determining the fate of organizations, so why should we pay CEOs so highly and obsess over which ones are the best ? Recent large-scale studies highlight the effects of CEOs on their organizations. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Data, and new methods for organizations to collaborate in order to extract insights from data, is likely to become more central to meeting these challenges. First, data cooperatives or pooling involve corporations and other entities joining together to create shared data resources. Our existing policy tool kit seems stale and outdated.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

At the other extreme, cross-border flows of certain types of private or public data, such as well production for a global oil producer or anonymous aggregated statistics, may be better left unfettered. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Most people who work for an organization are employees under federal and state statutes. Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

The theory describes, for example, how organizations may double their investments (in terms of money and management effort) but that does not mean they get something twice as much or twice as quickly. ” Building an organization and amassing a competitive advantage work much the same way. But that is not how organizations work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But if you were the organization that broke a story, or researched and originated it through a long investigation , Google News wouldnt give you a break. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. No selling of products or services.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Early adopters of microfinance wanted to prove that it was a commercially viable product, deserving space in an investor’s portfolio alongside real estate and the stock market. Many organizations are already adhering to these practices. The Working World, which provides loans to worker-owned cooperatives in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. What We Actually Measured — and the Limits of Our Knowledge.

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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. When China was admitted to the World Trade Organization in 2001, the Western hope was China would move toward a market-driven economy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. Worker buyouts are particularly likely to blossom in industries with organized workers who transition to union cooperatives. Already, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

Upbeat Music Can Make Employees More Cooperative. Along the same lines, a large meta-analysis showed that team members’ personalities influence cooperation, shared cognition, information sharing, and overall team performance. How to Handle a Colleague Who’s a Jerk When the Boss Isn’t Around. Amy Jen Su. Kevin Kniffin.

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