N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style. So toss them away (goals and jelly shoes) and bring your goals up-to-date.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

And when they don't deliver, or deliver an inferior product because it is beyond their scope, or capabilities, it further erodes the relationships with other departments, managers and each other. Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability. You ask how people feel when they get told no.

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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. It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. The leadership commu­nication is critical here because motivational pep talks that are actually di­rected at increasing productivity and compliance are immediately detected.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Among other things, there is growing demand from both retail and institutional investors to align their capital with better environmental and social outcomes, and more resources going into index fund or quasi-indexing products. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Being disadvantaged in pursuit of your goal is not the same as resigning yourself to failure. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. The Fashion landscape is dominated by European firms. Finding talent and financing isn’t the only hurdle to overcome on the road to startup success; it’s the first of many.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. Within this machine, people and technology must each play their particular roles in an integrated fashion. The goal of the integrated strategy machine is to enhance rather than marginalize or inhibit human thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. ZB by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g., telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

A good management team will be dedicated to creating product market fit, otherwise the business will flounder. No longer is the organization relying on gut instinct and a shared sense of purpose around delivering product value; instead, most large organizations rely on process controls to standardize operations. Patient capital.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

In a perfect world you would build relationships with the largest possible universe of targeted constituents where you can productively engage and contribute. The good news is, your new commitment to listening will help you achieve your goal of producing better content. I will be looking out for more good articles from you.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. We also looked beyond music for insights. and Harajuku Lovers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. Culturally, organizations that are too data-driven (yes, they exist) will blindly follow the implications of flawed models even if they defy common sense or run counter to business goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

To reduce costs, they have shifted production to countries with low-paid workers, thereby increasing demand for their labor and increasing their wages. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. It wasn’t for charity, of course.

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Perfectionists tend to be very busy, but rarely are they productive. I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Thanks for the encouragement.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. Find Common Language: Designers don't typically study finance, accounting, or economics so communicating to them in these business contexts usually only adds to confusion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And citizens, using new social media tools and old-fashioned marches, rose up to drive change. the utility NRG – which gets the vast majority of its power from fossil fuels — set some remarkable public goals , committing to cut carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 and 90% by 2050. Financing the clean economy. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2012

MBA students are dutifully taught finance, strategy and operations as if revenue appeared by magic and salespeople were at best a necessary evil. When you get into a bar fight, you revert to what comes naturally — the old-fashioned tactics." They get you all fired up, but you fall back into your old ways pretty soon.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

Spare me the slick info-product sales people, and give me authentic, professional practitioners of the art and science of leadership. This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. Their reasons may include commitment of time, insufficient dedication to the organization's goals, desire for low profile, and many others.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We are certain that our high customer satisfaction ratings and top spot on many best-place-to-work lists come from our early recognition that culture permeates every sales call, every employee interaction, and every product innovation. We’re not about stringent policies or old-fashioned career paths. Culture of opportunity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While flights of imagination from science-fiction writers, filmmakers, and techno-futurists involve things like flying cars and teleportation, in practice smart technology is making inroads in a piecemeal fashion, often in rather banal circumstances. A smart society ought to be defined by a framework that is based on outcomes.

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