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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# Not too surprisingly, people who possess a poor sense of timing usually don’t even understand timing is an issue.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I love the way you have clearly differentiated between strategy and tactics – so many people get them confused and end up playing checkers instead of chess… Thanks, Landon Creasy [link] [link] Roger Martin Mike: This is an excellent tool. But Everything has a price, there is no smoke without fire!!!!

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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D Jarrow, Kchia, and Potter then plugged in LinkedIn's minute-by-minute stock price movements during its first week of trading. It's not just an asset-price bubble; it's an asset bubble supported by borrowing that uses those very assets as collateral.

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. pretty much ever since.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. From less than 10% of world exports, they account for nearly 20%.