N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Technology has become increasingly critical for businesses in recent years, and it offers company bosses the chance to streamline and speed up operations, reduce the risk of errors and introduce cost-effective ways of working. Increasing efficiency in business is often an effective means of saving time and money.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2020

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

There are over 28 million small businesses nationwide, and a further 22 million that are solely operated. For your business to be a success, you need to make both short and long-term plans. Review operational procedures. There will always be aspects of your operational functions that can be improved upon.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. I think your approach makes most sense in project teams. One just left to lead a new project so now there are three of us.) Here I'll just add a couple thoughts. In my case. That's consensus.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

The past five years have seen explosive growth in “corporate green bonds” issued to finance climate-friendly projects. Some 69% of corporate green bonds were certified by independent third-parties to establish that the proceeds are funding projects that generate environmental benefits. How the stock market responds.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

The scale of operation does not matter; however, what matters is how well you allocate each resource to put them to its best use. These resources could be related to something as complicated as finances or something very human as the workforce. Effective allocation of resources is what forms the crux of a business organisation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Without reassurance that the initiative made good business sense, it quickly gave way to other projects that did. To compound this problem, the project team declared victory after having only a process design and an energized work force. Engage the finance organization. Finance was on board at the company in our story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Conventional wisdom is that CEOs buy back stock to manipulate the short-term stock price. They fund the buyback by cutting investment, and so firm value suffers in the long-term. It boosts prices in the short run, but the real way to boost the value of a corporation is to invest in the future, and they are not doing that.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation. Yet Nokia hung on to the Symbian operating system despite knowing its weaknesses in the eyes of the consumer.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

To enhance financial flexibility, companies have been retaining unprecedented amounts of cash on their balance sheets, calling it "strategic" cash to distinguish it from the "operating" cash that is needed to run the business. high technology or pharmaceutical) that are investing in projects with uncertain long-range payoffs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

In stark contrast, at a disruptive organization like Google, innovation is built into jobs through " 20% time " projects — engineers are expected to spend 20% of their time on projects that are creating and testing new ideas. No company is immune; no market niche is safe.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise. Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

An executive in the company's finance operations adopted a Six Sigma belt-driven approach to reduce costs in the company's global shared service centers. The firm then tasked each employee with a specific project to cut costs, armed with their tools and training. However, the push approach comes with complications.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

The manufacturing team could split operational discussions about issues on a line or scrap rate concerns from discussions about progress on the introduction of a new line. The short time horizon topics (e.g., revising projections for the coming month) need to happen frequently. Fourth, set the length of the different meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

In short, he became the unintended victim trapped by what the Financial Times called “byzantine organizational politics.” At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Political dynamics start with the individual player and their political skills.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

You need to take the time to understand the laws in different markets you are operating in. The office you use, the office equipment you bought when you first started your business, the cash and financing options you have, employees filling key roles, and other assets of your business are equally important and are worth protecting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals. They have power and influence resources.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 1, 2019

The short answer is, that managers, from C-level executives to supervisors, who are financially literate appear poised to make a greater contribution to the organization’s overall profitability. To reassess projections about future performance. I like to think of finance in an organization as a three-legged stool.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Seed investors are mostly operating as growth investors, expecting that the entrepreneur will somehow manage to bridge the gap and bring a concept to realization. In short, they want to come to the rescue of victory. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Companies are spending millions on digital transformation, yet studies find many leaders feel their projects aren’t achieving their objectives. I’m Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR. Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For long-term relationship-building, be sure that your values and those of your clients mesh. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. It forces you to edit and target with accuracy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. The organization had a strong community tradition and over 4,500 talented employees.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” Specific traits are essential to women’s success and in short supply. The recognition by a boss or mentor was key to sparking long-term ambition in many of the women. ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. .” Articulate roles in terms that engage women.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. It has business applications in areas from manufacturing to architecture, as Exploration 's project to 'turn the desert green' shows. Breakthrough Finance. The third scenario is breakthrough , where business leaders work to address problems inherent in the system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Yet wanting to be closer with customers, and knowing what actual, operational pathways to take in order to achieve this are two very different things. The Future of Operations. “We’ve moved from ad hoc day-to-day product planning to the deployment of a long-term disciplined approach supported by purposeful metrics.”

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is. The bad news is that you can't get back the time you spent working on any projects for this client.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

If policymakers hope to be successful in their efforts to promote entrepreneurs and small businesses, they need to know what works – in short, they need a “Playbook” for small business job creation. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills. This successful project works with 50 refugee doctors each year.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Demand that consultants of seniority staff the project.

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