N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. Listen to those that confront you, challenge you, stretch you, and develop you. Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. Want to become a better leader?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Not recognizing, developing, and rewarding talent is the fastest way I know of to drive talent out of your organization and directly into the hands of your competition. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] the company is not leveraging its true talent base. Thanks for stopping by Drew.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Banking and investing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. Finance charges are negotiated.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

A few of the bullet points: • Banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have $1.5 trillion in capital — the highest capital levels in the history of American banking. • If it had been, there wouldn't have been a financial crisis.). Investment banks used to all be partnerships. The largest U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

This represents a major challenge to the banking sector where, in developed markets, growth and profitability are still at about half of pre-crisis levels. As banks recover from the downturn, non-banks are taking advantage by proceeding aggressively with digital innovations and capturing more and more of the banking value chain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Last week my father received a phone call from the branch director of his long-standing bank to offer him a new product. Millions of people have lost confidence in banks. But the dissatisfaction and disappointment with our banks runs deeper. The last bank in my hometown closed a year ago. The two facts do not add up.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Since the financial crisis of 2008, a major question has been how banks can restore the trust of their clients. To address this concern, banks have been hiring an increasing number of compliance officers. Banks might be better served by focusing less on compliance and more on benevolence. But bankers beware.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

We are pleased to share an excerpt from chapter three, A Crisis of Character , which was authored by Don Shapiro. A Crisis of Character. As this book will explore, the leadership crisis is really a crisis of character. And that crisis is getting worse by the day. How Bad Is The Crisis? Corporations.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I would also add that it works at home as well. link] mikemyatt A great motto Anna, and sound perspectives as well. Thanks for commenting. link] landoncreasy Hi Mike, Great post.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service. I thank you for this opportunity to develop the meaning in real life and make sense of this world essential. “To fulfill your destiny, you don't need what other's have.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries. Ironically, Brazil was already attempting to retrench and adjust, but bank retrenchment and "redlining"—treating the whole region as being the same—resulted in over 25 countries falling into arrears by 1983.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The models concluded — in a sort of "divine coincidence," as the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard and a colleague quipped — that if central banks merely maintained steady, low inflation, they would achieve economic stability and the best growth possible. Washington and London espoused this orthodoxy.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Carroll from the University of Victoria to show how companies’ boards interlock and to study the implications for when a crisis hits. We plotted shared directorships among 176 large companies in 1976 and 2013, two years that followed a major global economic crisis. Regional networks did not form in reaction to the 2008 crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This is where the July 2012 memorandum of understanding between Greece and the Troika (the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank, and the European Commission) failed miserably; the previous government, much like Syriza, wanted to preserve the status quo. But on social justice the claim is more than questionable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application. And they are allowing new sources of capital such as peer-to-peer lending to replace traditional bank capital.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Since no one can know what the source of the next systemic financial crisis will be, regulation can only do so much.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Many banks and large corporations employ artificial intelligence to detect and prevent fraud and money laundering. For instance, banks have been using transaction monitoring systems for decades based on pre-defined binary rules that require the output to be manually checked. Patrick George/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

A major challenge for international development efforts is determining which financial tools provide durable buffers against such setbacks. The Grameen model of microfinance gained a great deal of attention in the international development field after early data showed that it was associated with high repayment and low default.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Factors ranging from weak demand to bank consolidation have combined to hobble many small businesses  and if these factors arent addressed, they could continue to impede U.S. And as we describe in a recent HBS Working Paper , gaps remain in traditional bank credit supply. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. A large exposure to AP with its abysmal repayment rates is an existential crisis for MFIs in India. Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

Countries that score high on uncertainty avoidance score low on innovation (as measured in the innovation union scoreboard of the European Commission) and high on bureaucracy (as measured on the easiness to do business ranking of the World Bank). But Greece cannot stop there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. While international lending, as measured by cross-border banking claims at the Bank for International Settlements, has declined $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In the past, a community bank would have a relationship with the businesses on Main Street, and when it came time for a loan, there would be a wealth of informal information to augment the loan application. And they are allowing new sources of capital such as peer-to-peer lending to replace traditional bank capital.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Just like Ireland, Spain had a credit boom financed mostly with external debt, which meant that the balance sheets of their banks are now stuffed with bad debts as asset values collapse. Both governments have now injected billions into these ailing banks, to the detriment of their respective debt profiles. How things change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. 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. With the decision now made, will we go back to business as usual?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

At Ryhov Hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, patients now administer their own dialysis treatments, in much the same way as we now bank for ourselves at ATMs and fill our own gas tanks. Their attention was on their finances — understandable and even appropriate these days. The failures of leadership at Mid Staffs had to do with attention.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

, it's the behavior of industrial age institutions — corporations, banks, governments — that's the invisible fist of this great crisis. And the wisdom group's lifeblood wouldn't be in the hands of a finance team — but in the hands of what you might call a significance team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. And they ended up with a financial crisis in 1997-8. China Economy Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After weeks of media frenzy around the Greek election and the new government’s once-ambitious plans to renegotiate with the Eurozone over its debt crisis , the searchlights of publicity are shifting. Greece appears also to lose control of the €11 billion reserves of the Greek banking stability fund.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively. One day, it will form the basis of a masters in finance, and you should all grasp this opportunity to learn with open hands." I changed my game.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

It's easy to assume that Jamie Dimon, the accomplished CEO of JPMorgan Chase, was simply stonewalling when he claimed that mounting trading losses in his bank were "blown out of proportion" — that he was unaware of how grave the situation really was. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.

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