N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. 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. 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. 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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Moreover, personally motivated decisions that speak of self-dealing will eventually come out into public view, and will be dealt with harshly. Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. Hopefully this piece will spare others unnecessary brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

They are the ones that inspire, motivate and challenge others. only to fail in miserable fashion. They are the ones who have earned the trust, loyalty and respect of their co-workers. They are the ones people turn to when things get tough. I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. What would happen if no decision is made? Who will the decision impact (both directly and indirectly)?

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Make them realistic and achievable yet ambitious enough to stay motivated. Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Moreover, building rapport is easily achieved assuming your motivations for doing so are sincere. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  In thetypical fashion of tyrannical regimes, the outside world has no complete set ofconfirmed facts regarding the total killed, their names, or the charges againstthem.   We may never know exactly what motivated him, but we can allbe motivated by him.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

If you''ve got a stellar intern, why not reach out directly to colleagues or clients who you think might benefit from a bright and motivated new grad? She excelled in every way possible, but by the end of the summer she realized finance wasn''t for her. Perhaps you''re willing to take it a few steps further.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

And, being human, we are not always going to act in exemplary fashion. My first experience was when I was a very young manager working in a finance department and the middle aged guy working for me told me he was using me as a role model. For more information about Leading by Example, here is a link to an article written by A.J.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

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. That fear is the motivator that keeps you driving forward. The list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. They share a motive: Growth is increasingly hard to come by, so large companies are increasingly looking to entrepreneurs to help them find it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Or more correctly, their paths: in our experience at Ziba, we’ve seen two distinct career paths among creative professionals, each stemming from its own set of motivations, and demanding its own approach to management. Where they differ is in their long-term professional path. The Creative Director.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. They use the information acquired through reading in order to inspire, motivate, and lead those around them. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

So while the App Economy booms, there are signs that its rapid expansion is a challenge for the current search, marketing, and monetization models — models that have been largely fashioned by blockbuster app titles and the big spenders behind them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. Instead, Nadella was known for listening, learning, and analyzing.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.&# - Eugene B. Serves people.

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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. Of course there might have been other motivations to keep a younger fleet—customer satisfaction and brand perception, to name two—but cost reduction was not one of them.).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2015

His peers in the finance department was not approving contracts for a subset of our customers. My deeply southern district manager got in the car and drove 3 hours for an old-fashioned visit. ” When you really need something, they’ll be more likely to trust your motives. Take a Field Trip. Lift Them Up.

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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

This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. Some leadership expert followers might just be interested in the topic to feel motivated ( [link] ) – not that that's a bad thing… There are also those who are interested in leadership in order to continuously improve processes and study behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

As a provider of cloud-based finance and HR applications designed to help companies change and grow, our customers rightly expect us to lead by example. We’re not about stringent policies or old-fashioned career paths. This is done in the spirit of keeping employees informed and is at the center of everything we do.

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