N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

While this sounds simple enough at face value, I have consistently found that one of the most often overlooked leadership attributes is that of a positive attitude. If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

It piled up on streets and in vacant lots, and in 1898 urban planners convened from around the world to brainstorm solutions to the impending crisis. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The landscape has undergone major transformations since the global financial crisis. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Upgrade skills.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2013

Where was its leadership bench? Is the problem that P&G produces outstanding specialists in marketing but not general managers who can run the business? Why are so many companies struggling with a crisis of their leadership bench? banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

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Succession Telecommunications Biotechnology Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We'd lost half of our market value in just one year. There were a lot of things we changed, from the leadership team to package design — you've read about those. That is what is helping employees feel more fulfilled despite even this latest economic crisis. A high percentage of the city's real estate has been abandoned.

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Company Real Estate Retail Commitment 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. 85% of the time, planning and forethought will avert the crisis.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My father acted swiftly to replace the full leadership team, enraging my cousins and their father. My eldest uncle''s sons have also been unable to break into leadership positions. And Southeast Asia''s financial crisis was crippling Indonesia''s growth; perhaps my uncles sensed vulnerability. Our markets have taken a beating.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Family businesses rarely receive much public attention unless they are in crisis. Right now we have an honest to goodness Greek tragedy in Market Basket, a large family-owned grocery store chain being run into the ground by the feuding Demoulas (yes, Greek-American) family. And this is also true at Market Basket.

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Marketing Real Estate Loyalty Long-term 8

Eric Jacobson

MAY 19, 2022

Headquartered in New York and Chicago, the Firm provides strategic advice and counsel to Fortune 500 companies and leading families and individuals around the world, with experience in fields ranging from mergers and acquisitions and crisis communications to marketing, government affairs and international media.

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Handbook Public Relations Chief Executive Officer How To 94