N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. And what are your strategic goals?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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. You don’t need more than three to five goals to stay on track and move your business to the next level. Thanksgiving blessings to all of you!

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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. Thanks for commenting and best wishes for continued success. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While successful leaders share many common traits, all great leaders have one thing in common – they are not only adept at earning the loyalty of those they lead, but they also recognize that loyalty is a two-way street, and as such give their loyalty in return. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. What differences do you note between the most successful organizations versus the mediocre? Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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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. I admire this.

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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. By way of contrast, it is difficult to build rapport if you are driven by an agenda that the other party sees as being a threat to their success or security.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership." The drought of Trust today is a clear indication that Integrity, Ability or both are sorely lacking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

But most women outgrew the "cookies and crafts" stereotype a long time ago, and have their sights set on bigger goals. Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty. In 1977, only 4.5% of privately held businesses were owned by women.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

This ideology, Fukuyama goes on: could not begin with a denunciation of capitalism as such, as if old-fashioned socialism were still a viable alternative. The measures of economic success we've been using for the past three-plus decades, and the goals we've been striving toward, seem to have led us to a dead-end, he argues.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

There are also great success stories to encourage us. 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. billion dollar sale to Oracle. The list goes on and on.

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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. Deliver behavioral coaching.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. A successful strategy machine must be able to improve itself over time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Even with strong CEO direction, subordinate business leaders who are crucial to its success may not share the commitment or invest in the expertise or understand the time required. The integration of policy and politics is the sine qua non of success. A needed a pproach.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan. To be successful in creating social media influence your efforts need to be centered around others. I will be looking out for more good articles from you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

Investors are involved for the long haul, understanding that startup managers will have to experiment and fail along the way to a successful IPO. Between your idea and the helm, there are legal departments, finance departments, marketing departments, other business units, channel partners, and sometimes even your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The research project goals were to understand how customers perceive the salespeople they meet with, explore the circumstances that determine which vendor is selected, and learn how different company departments and vertical industries make buying decisions. This suggests that other factors separate the winner from the losers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

The most successful artists in this new landscape have begun to look at new business models and new industries to strengthen their existing brands. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt.

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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. Abdelmajid Rais El Fenni, one of the most successful carpet and rug traders in Tangiers, explained how he coped with the daily rejections and petty humiliations every salesman must face.

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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

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. I've found shortcutting this process, or failing to explore how design can align with strategy, will only limit market and financial success. These tips can't guarantee ultimate design success.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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. Put simply, leaders cannot be successful being guided by fear and hesitation. Vision is everything and perfectionism kills vision.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. The first major adaptation is the adoption of corporate goals that go beyond short-term gain for shareholders and attend to the longer-term interests of all stakeholders.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. Is there really any one true standard or measure for what makes someone a successful leadership advisor? Not every leader can be successful. In fact, I would not even attempt to dispute that there are many successful leaders in our midst.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We were founded in 2005, and our cofounders, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield who were both already highly successful entrepreneurs, understood that any successful culture would be built on a core set of values. We’re not about stringent policies or old-fashioned career paths. Culture of opportunity. Performance enablement.

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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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