N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Never be swayed by consensus that calls you to compromise your values, rather be guided by doing the right thing. The concepts of "serve and care" pack more deposits into the bank of trust and credibility than anything else. Trust cannot exist where leaders are fickle, inconsistent, indecisive, or display a lack of character.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

The consensus, no surprise, is networking. Gallup recently helped an Asia-Pacific bank chain increase the engagement of their customers and employees alike. 25 People at the Heart of the Financial Crisis (Guardian). Understood. Perhaps Beucke is right: “America’s productivity is rising on the backs of scared office workers.”.

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Marketing CIO Consensus Survey 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

In their recent book, The Progress Principle , Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer build on the same argument and clearly demonstrate how even the smallest, most mundane steps forward — for example, achieving clear consensus in a meeting — can motivate and inspire workers.

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Goal Metrics Deming Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Sitting at an annual event on a well-known Alp, Chris saw Washington Consensus capitalism come up against emerging economy pragmatism. The "Asian Contagion" currency crisis that depressed Thailand, Indonesian, South Korean and other currencies by as much as 70% was not yet over. Larry Summers, then Deputy Secretary of the U.S.

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Banking ROE Proposal Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. It was a much-watched contest, as many had thought it might turn out otherwise—that the old boys' bargain, under which an American gets to lead the World Bank and a European gets the IMF, would cave in to pressure from everyone else. But haven't we heard this before?

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2 billion dollars in the bank, it plans on jumping right in. When founders discovered their assumptions were wrong, as they inevitably did, the result wasn’t a crisis; it was a learning event called a pivot — and an opportunity to change the business model. And it may work.

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IPO First-mover Advantage Business Model Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

India began morphing from a highly protected economy to a liberalizing one in the 1990s, following a balance of payments crisis. b) Regulations: The regulatory environment, particularly for the banking and financial sectors, went through major changes. The very survival of many firms was at stake.

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Globalization Bottom-up Class Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2011

Why did he choose to bail out the banks? I mean "bestow fortune upon", because the super-rich have actually, while most people have gotten poorer, gotten richer during this great crisis) — headed off to hurriedly, nervously confer with their skinny-jeaned, sunglass-wearing, spiky-haired marketing droids. Why not more stimulus?

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Marketing Loyalty Decentralization Credit Rating 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Mid-Career Crisis. Indeed, this is what happens when couples don’t actively work to build and maintain consensus on what they want. Michelle Hickox, the chief financial officer of Independent Bank in Texas, and her husband Rob both worked as accountants for many years, a field that can require long hours at tax time.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2013

Goldbloom founded the company after working as a macroeconomic modeler at the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Treasury. In the 1990s, the consensus seemed to be that for the U.S. In the long aftermath of a global financial crisis, with deflation a real threat, the U.S. I asked him. "No," No," he replied.

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GDP Bond Sample Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Thanks to a lot of great reporting, most recently by Bloomberg , we now know how strong the government's reaction to the banking crisis of 2008 was — how quickly and heavily financial institutions were propped up with federal money.

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Banking Crisis Consensus Project 13

Women on Business

MARCH 4, 2011

The President has also been a proponent of charging major banks a financial disaster crisis fee, and this was included in the budget. The scary question is whether Congress can come to a consensus on the budget–in the short-term as well as for 2012–or whether we are headed for a government shut-down in a few days.

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GDP Budgeting Proposal Short-term 150

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

The financial crisis of 2008 is often attributed to deregulation and unfettered capitalism. Multinational banks are in retreat, and even digital businesses such as Uber and Airbnb have found their business models undermined in several countries by regulations introduced to protect the domestic suppliers they compete with.

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Politics Globalization Business Model Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

While the whole world has been adopting a pragmatic consensus on economic policy since the Great Recession, Europe — and Germany in particular — is stubbornly sticking to a policy that has all the downsides of the old classical gold standard. France), suffered the most, while the countries that left the gold standard early (i.e.

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Crisis Policies Banking Politics 11