N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

But the audience was oh-so quick to grab their phones and tweet/IM/Facebook about what they were watching. In fact, I hope that some in Bill Nye’s audience were attempting to contact emergency services, but I rather suspect that this was not the case for most of them. The audience gasped, and then talked to each other.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2012

He also had his fair share of failures, including: The Apple III computer, the Lisa, the early Macintosh computers (John Sculley, the CEO Jobs brought to Apple, pushed him out over the Mac’s initially lackluster sales), Apple TV, the NeXT-like Apple G4 Cube, and Apple’s Pages word processor to name a few. Jack London.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 8, 2014

Just remember you want to make it as comfortable as possible for her to change her mind without an audience. The finance guy or gal is usually a convincing choice. Karin Hurt is an experienced leader, speaker and writer, a former Fortune 15 executive and CEO of Let’s Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Instigator Susan Mazza , CEO of Clarus-WORKS , Founder/Author of Random Acts of Leadership ™, and Co-Author of The Character-Based Leader. Susan graduated from Penn State with a BS in Finance and International Business. She believes her “real education” started when she began working.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In fact, in some cases the use of buzzwords and business speak can actually demonstrate a better understanding of context, environment, audience, etc. There is no point judging the audience for their reaction, they are where they are. Thanks for sharng Sami. link] Dan Collins Academics like to debate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2018

Bookkeeping – this is pretty much a vital part of keeping your business running well, and keeping firm hold of your finances. It is basically the use of easy to read and digest content, that educates and informs your target audience without being salesy. If not, hire a freelancer to take care of that for you.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This is simply due to the fact that more people want to hear what a high profile CEO or entrepreneur has to say. If you don’t have the time to make blogging a priority the effort will end in frustration for both you and your audience. You Have Someone To Say It To : Make sure that there is a viable audience for your content.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

First, we would need to build an audience. In 2005, he sold USI to Johnson Controls, a Fortune 100 company, and at that point, became CEO of JCI’s Global Workplace Business for the Americas. Garden Design ‘s publisher was amazingly friendly and generous with his time and knowledge. Then, we’d have to sell advertising space.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While I'm certain the post will resonate with those who have served, it is my hope it will reach beyond that audience and provide insights that will be meaningful to a broader constituency. link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for your comment and the kind words, but most of all thank you for your service. Thanks Mark. link] Gordon R.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

After 26 years since the creation of the businesses now have a number of methods and channels to distribute marketing and information about their products and services and are able to reach a varied and broad audience. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft. What does this mean to the wealth of your company?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

The soft stuff can attract even bigger audiences and higher revenues than the hard stuff. The British wedding might have a larger global television audience than the World Cup championship or the U.S. One former New York CEO for whom I was a consultant ran a tight ship and was fond of saying that "Business is the last monarchy."

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Leading Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Include the basic details: When announcing the goal for change, the first two things that your audience wants to know is what the change is (the goal) and then how it applies to them. Tell your audience that the details are coming and give them a timeline. This allows for different approaches to achievement.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2017

” Imagine you were sitting in the audience that day, about to begin constructing your career. For instance, people who entered adulthood during economic depressions tend to be attuned to economic and national security throughout their adult lives , and particularly cautious with their personal and professional finances.

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Roundtable Talk

MARCH 17, 2010

← Seymour Schulich delivers the goods on decision-making WestJet’s CEO step down: The first sign of the leadership apocalypse? It doesn’t matter if you’re in HR, finance, IT, marketing… these new buddies will be everywhere. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome! Bookmark the permalink.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper. Grasp this, I tell my audience, and your day will be well spent. .” Done and dusted, they all head home. It’s abstract.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 5, 2010

" 12 hours ago #adweekcdn #genesimmons lesson in what can go wrong with interactive audience participation. As the group discussed the various places we’ve all seen politics at play, participants started owning up to their own games. Follow us @ExecRoundtable Leaving #adweekcdn #genesimmons and wondering "what the hell was that?"

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. Nonetheless we counsel CEOs to mind the rhetoric.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Schedules are packed as the high-stakes finance crowd gathers to hear 20-minute rapid-fire talks by CEOs of start-ups and public companies who seek funding or favorable stock analysts' reports. In contrast, my client, the CEO of a new biotech company walks on stage, rolls up his shirt sleeve, and stops at the center of the stage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

“The idea may be great, but if it’s not communicated well, it won’t get any traction,” says Nancy Duarte, the author of the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations and CEO of Duarte, Inc., In order to grab the attention of your audience from the outset, immediately identify the business need you are trying to address.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

When they had finished, the great man himself, who had been sitting at a table in the audience eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, walked to the front of the room. In other fields, CEOs and company founders can credibly assert to be motivated mostly by things other than self-enrichment. Finance Leadership Motivation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

2, 2010 speech " Patience and Finance." In "Patience and Finance," Haldane examines the neurological roots of patience and impatience and looks at everyday cases where one or the other wins out. Stock holding periods are down, market volatility is up, CEO tenure is down. My introduction to Haldane was his Sept.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

If you''ve got a genuinely creative idea — or even a " me, too with a twist " — Kickstarter''s "crowd funding" platform offers a genuinely innovative way to finance creativity and innovation. But what if a slice or sliver of people''s compensation was denominated for Kickstarter-esque discretionary financing?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. The logical answer?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

It’s a common question: why bother to blog (or use other forms of social media) when it’s so hard to build a following, and you may toil in obscurity for years before finding an audience? In my book Reinventing You , I feature finance author Ramit Sethi, who used the technique successfully and has blogged about how to do it.)

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). Up next was Calos Brito, CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

MBA finance majors learn early that trying to anticipate equity and commodity markets with such data is like trying to drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Empathy is the key to being able to change all the variables - industries, objectives, offerings - and still work the process from the eyes of the target audience.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I am the cofounder and CEO of BioLite. Chaiwalas already cook over fires to make their tea, so using the HomeStove as an alternative could immediately demonstrate the benefits of our product to a captive audience — a bit of a drink and a show, if you will. A chaiwala in Orissa, India, brews tea on a BioLite HomeStove.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

After watching a presentation by Kaggle founder and CEO Anthony Goldbloom at a conference last year , I went up to the front of the room to ask him a question about macroeconomics. Economy Finance Research' Which is exactly what''s happening now. That can''t be a bad thing, can it?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Here's just one version of that the story, as related by a Tata executive to a Harvard audience last October.) In fact, I can think of only one example of a CEO who pre-announced an innovation that was going to change the world and actually delivered it. But, as pop stars come to understand, fame is fickle.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

You see it is precisely by not attempting to steamroll, manipulate or outsmart others, that you’ll be able to effectively convey your message even to an audience that might not otherwise be willing or receptive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

The reason good movies follow that formula is that there is no way to keep an audience engaged once that tension is dissipated. The CEO at my offsite demonstrated that behavior admirably. Then, it was only in the last few minutes that the tension was resolved and she achieved whatever it was she was seeking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. But you can't deny that it sounds simple and straightforward. Even if it's closer to being right. That thought kept coming back to me as I read John Taft's new book Stewardship: Lessons Learned from the Lost Culture of Wall Street.

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