N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

New leadership is needed—leadership that goes against the grain, challenges conventional wisdom, and pushes the status quo. Many companies are still in survival mode after the 2008 recession. Growth and innovation are not only possible but necessary during dark times. Are you ready? They are trying to survive, not grow.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? Michael Lee Stallard is president of E Pluribus Partners, a leadership training and coaching firm. Education is another field he mentioned. Just what Dr. Goodnight ordered.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Indeed, the World Bank predict that we’re facing up to the worst global recession since the 2nd World War. It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. Such practices can often incur short-term costs, but they pay off in the long run.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

His book Just Ask Leadership - Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions (McGraw Hill 2009). They also go down the road to explain free to not free enterprises like Skype. The Empathy Map by XPLANE Design : How to build a business model around customer insights.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

Only those interested in leadership as more than mere ego gratification have a chance to build something that outlasts them. Not unlike the destruction of trust brought about by megalomaniacal divas is the damage that Wall Street banks can cause to companies, or to the economy in general, as in the 2008 meltdown.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. By Rajesh Setty on Thu 18 Dec 2008, 7:32 PM - View Comments I saw this advertisement from Wachovia Bank at a gas Station in Santa Clara. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. Its even 100% free!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

If innovation is a key strategic priority, does your organizational structure enable creative collaboration, risk-taking, and knowledge sharing? Each state poses a different leadership challenge. Superior technical innovation is at the heart of its strategy and its organizational design. The fall can come quickly.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises.

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Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 24, 2008

Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. HELLO THERE AND WELCOME. You are a new visitor to this blog. You REALLY should subscribe to our newsletter too - you will get exclusive content that is NOT featured on this blog once or twice a month.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

When only seven percent of all employees trust their leaders, can you blame Harvard's Barbara Kellerman for calling the modern practice of leadership development a failure? She pulls few punches in this Strategy+Business excerpt from her book, "The End of Leadership.". It let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. Our Sperry Van Ness Commercial Real Estate advisors in Florida are believers. What more proof does one need? EC Sheedy Fascinating!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Seven years ago, Bank of America launched Neighborhood Builders ®, a program that provides grants and, more importantly, leadership training to managers of "high-potential" non-profit organizations in the communities where the bank does business. The result has been a clear success. It is both local and national.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

Design thinking has come a long way since I wrote about it here in 2008. It’s a methodology always in pursuit of unforeseen innovation, so reinventing itself might seem like the smart way forward. How might organizations build deep design thinking skills and creative leadership at all levels?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

When my bank can't do the thing the client needs i find them someone who can. Obviously i try and do the deal myself with my bank, but if i cannot, being the person who provided the solution is the next best thing. Thanks Roland… [link] Ryan You are absolutely right. I send people to a competitor?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

For years, those of us who study business innovation have been thrilled by the results and influence of Muhammad Yunus , Grameen Bank, and the idea that one powerful way to fight poverty is to make small loans to villagers (mainly women) who have tons of energy but no access to capital. "If I hope so too, but I highly doubt it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." And even if there were, it would have to be expressed as a probability statement: How likely is Apple to innovate or out-innovate its peers?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The reason is failed leadership, and Apple – currently the dominant tech firm for the mobile era – is at risk of making the same mistakes. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Microsoft entered the 20 th century as the dominant software provider for anyone who interacted with a computing device.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

That was in 2008. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. When she discovered the bank didn’t have a paid family leave policy, a word to the CEO changed that. “Reluctantly, they said OK to me.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) Years of economic mismanagement. Amid worsening food and foreign exchange shortages, Mugabe ramped up populist policies to please his supporters.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We then learned that we actually had to go to the elevator bank on the other side of the building. So we walked through the building's central part, found the other elevator bank, went down to the 8th floor, and then up to the 10th floor. If anything, it made them more committed to finding creative ways to drive innovation and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

Professions-based education – that which ensures future employability for students – has also been a key area for investment and innovation in the country. With the right leadership, I think so. Government expenditure on education remains dramatically higher than it is in other OECD countries.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

In the recent uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Libya, Bahrain, Syria, and Jordan, people came together to demand freedom of voice, leadership they could believe in, and meaningful work. And yet these elements of trust, solidarity, mutuality are the core of a culture of innovation. Human beings want to be valued.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

We saw after the 2008 recession how men lost their jobs in greater numbers than women. Yet corporate leadership still lags as does the percentage of women on U.S. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. corporate boards.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Apple under the leadership of Steve Jobs offers a metaphor for the future role of the CEO as a co-creative engagement orchestrator. There are many examples of crowdsourcing, open innovation, and new business models that tap into the creativity of people from anywhere in the world today. It closed out the 2010 fiscal year with €11.97

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

But their shame pales into invisibility compared to the humiliation inflicted on Switzerland's biggest bank. UBS's failure merits particular disgrace because the bank's board commissioned public review after public review of its risk management systems in the wake of roughly $40 billion in 2007 losses and a Swiss government bailout.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. Risk modeling in the banks grew out of probability theory.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Many believe that bankers recently brought the world economic system to its knees in the crisis of 2008 and subsequent recession. However, these transgressions and their impact on public perception illustrate not merely a crisis of business leadership, but something much more profound.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

President Obama gave a stirring speech last night, saying "We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world." He used the word "innovate" more times in his State of the Union than any other U.S. But the obstacles to boosting innovation in the US are far higher than the President acknowledged.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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