N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. What do our leaders need to be good at in order to drive our business forward and sustain a positive culture that ensures high engagement and maximum contribution? What is expected of leadership today?

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Germany is in many ways a perfect Petri dish, as not only has inequality risen significantly since unification, they have also forgone the shift towards a finance-driven economy seen in Britain and the United States, and have seen few jobs outsourced due to globalization. We think people are pessimistic because they’re on to something.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. What this means for 2013 is that women have a huge opportunity to convert their connections into career advancement. That sounds like progress. The Pay Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The Intuits positioned themselves to benefit from arctic resource exploitation. All of which points to a 2013 that looks nothing like 2012. FINANCING THAT VACATION HOME IN VANUATU. EU member Cypress turned to Moscow for its bailout funds. Oil was discovered in the Congo worth about 28 times its GDP. Nothing could be easier.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Positive Attitude: The opposite of leader is not follower. Maintain a positive attitude to show that you can help your employees rise above any personal or professional problems or conflicts at work by offering constructive feedback and avoiding harsh or critical reprimands. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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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. While investors bought just $3 billion of these bonds in 2013, they scooped up $49 billion worth in 2017, bringing the total sold since 2013 to $113 billion at an average of $308 million per offering.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Only about 18% of interlocks were international in 1976, and most of those were transatlantic links in finance and energy — two of the first industries to begin globalizing. Board Interlocks, 2013.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. Be sure to check on their well-being and to provide positive encouragement and reinforcement as the process continues. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

in 2013 to 3.7 The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee. If the GE board had had a finance committee, the board might have done a better job of overseeing the design and funding of its retirement plans. The board has since transformed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.” They built 75 of version 6 in January 2014 and response so far has been positive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

As more evidence shows that leadership skills and management practices positively influence both patient and healthcare organization outcomes, it’s becoming clear that leadership training should be formally integrated into medical and residency training curricula. And several programs stand out as examples of how this can be done.

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Training Leadership Health Care Education 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

Fast-forward to 2013: Zoho is a $200 million dollar a year company. The initial cash needs to come from revenues, not financing. Not even any kind of bank financing. In this equation, outside financing is Optional. He offered the product to small businesses, and customers lapped it up. No venture capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Finance Human resources'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

In the European Union, government VCs allocated €3,621,000,000 to finance innovation and growth in small and medium-size businesses from 2007 to 2013. Women were also denied financing to a greater extent than men, with close to 53% of women having their applications dismissed, compared with 38% of men.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

How do you use your résumé to tell stories that match those new positions’ requirements? You can have a foundational version that compellingly articulates your most important information, but you may have to alter it, perhaps only slightly, for each position you’re applying for. Here’s how.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Unfortunately, mismatched goals between investors and entrepreneurs as well as a potential cultural bias may both prove to limit the positive effect that accelerators have in emerging market contexts. Regardless, accelerators still have an important role to play that can help position entrepreneurs for success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The ManpowerGroup Contingent Workforce Index of 2013 showed 40% of all ManpowerGroup consulting engagements blended permanent and contingent workers. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. If we train enough of them, I think we’ll see many positive changes in the years to come.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Note, for fiscal 2013 the U.S. One last thought: I do not understand, other than venal politics, the reason to close cash-positive government services. This makes no sense as it hurts visitors to the parks, hurts surrounding businesses, and turns a cash-positive government service into a cost. It would force the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With the 5C in place as a fighter brand, the 5S is now better positioned to customers who highly value the handset and can continue to command a premium. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. The stock market reacted harshly to Apple''s new strategy primarily due to the 5C''s $549 off-contract price.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

With the 5C in place as a fighter brand, the 5S is now better positioned to customers who highly value the handset and can continue to command a premium. billion in iPhones in 2013 alone. The stock market reacted harshly to Apple’s new strategy primarily due to the 5C’s $549 off-contract price.

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Price Strategy Wireless Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. Consider that many directors who sit on boards hold senior management positions at other firms, and some sit on the boards of multiple companies.

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 24, 2023

Launched in 2013, this scholarship program has since made significant strides in promoting post-secondary education in the state. This creates a ripple effect of positive change throughout the state. It was established with the recognition that education is the cornerstone of personal and economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. But if some do, the exchanges will be in a position to encourage or require their adoption. in the September 26, 2013 New England Journal of Medicine.).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. ” We are reminded yet again that the chief executive is no longer the sole leader of the enterprise.

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Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. Otherwise, companies risk facing challenges related to pricing, value, and positioning against competitors. However, remaining U.S. Accessing foreign exchange.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Determining how much to share about your finances with your kids and when to do so can be a tough call. A 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Missy Sullivan references a 2012 study by U.S. Many high-wealth parents put off having conversations about money.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. Financing is managed through a collaboration between Geisinger Health and our health insurance company, Geisinger Health Plan (GHP). Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >. Diabetes has long been one of the most expensive medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2012

will not be legalized until 2013). This week's announcement of the CrowdFunding Professional Association (CfPA) is a positive start. It's time that traditional investors stop casting stones at the crowdfunding industry and instead partner up to ameliorate and avoid the pitfalls Mr. Isenberg has so aptly described.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales. ” App store research, which I collected in my book, Apponomics , reveals only 5% of apps accounted for 92% of downloads in 2013. million apps as of July 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Designing a consistently positive, rewarding experience across all those touchpoints takes system-wide thinking and an integrated service-delivery approach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Knowing where your professional passions lie puts “you in a good position,” says Dorie Clark, the author of Reinventing You : Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future. ” In 2013, she and Robin Smith — a former colleague from Artus Labs — began exploring ideas. What the Experts Say.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We’ve been teaching and testing Microsoft Excel for a decade, and a survey of several hundred office staff we ran suggests we spend more than 10% of our working lives spreadsheeting , and for those working in research and development or finance, it’s more like 30%, or 2.5 hours a day. Flash Fill (30 minutes to learn).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

The researchers looked at systematic reviews conducted between 2006 and 2013. The effect sizes for these trials are still quite small, but when added together, there was more, and qualitatively better, evidence associating sugar consumption and increased weight gain the closer one got to 2013. Yes/no; positive association?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

proprietary data shows that the smallest businesses have been growing revenues the fastest: In 2013 alone, micro business revenue on average grew by 2.14% while small business revenue grew by 1.18%. The largest businesses are able to secure financing with relative ease and on strong terms, including historically low interest rates.

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