N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If you’re a CEO with clouded vision and desire to change the view from the top it is critical that you maintain open lines of communication through a variety of channels and feedback loops. Everyone sits in open cubicles which are all roughly the same size. All good leaders maintain a connection and rapport with both line and staff.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2018

The $100 Startup, the website for the best-selling book of the same name, has a ton of stripped-down resources for entrepreneurs, including a super simplified business plan template. Invoiceberry Templates for Word, Open Office, Excel, or PPT. Who said a business plan has to be a long, complicated document?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

More US bank branches closed in 2013 than ever before. More than 85% of retail banking transactions are now digital. The bank branch is “going south,” mobile-banking entrepreneur Brett King said to CNBC. So are we witnessing the death throes of brick-and-mortar retail banking? In our view, no. Here’s why.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

For what lead Life & Fire’s directors to commit fraud in the first place was in part driven by a desire (so they claimed) to extend credit to high-risk borrowers being ignored by traditional banks. Why was an insurance company doing a bank’s work? In so doing, they created a new financial product called a post note.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2014

But as he recounts in his engaging book , achieving his dream quickly turned into a nightmare when he was confronted with a stark reality: they had sold to Walmart without having the necessary infrastructure in place to handle the huge volume increase. Use multiple sources of finance.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. Candid, effective communication is best maintained through a mutual respect and rapport.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. The other, Philip Auerswald, is an economist whose most recent book traces processes of digital disruption over the long arc of human history.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

A few months ago I decided to look into the professional experience of non-executive directors at the major banks listed in Britain. Like almost every other major industry today, banking relies on hugely complex, enormously expensive technology. I’m afraid this is typical not just in banking but across most major industries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

In the fall he came out with a book setting out his new and improved worldview, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting. I guess they shut it down in June,” he says, estimating when the book went to the printer. The book is not the world’s most coherent. But even that’s not the end of it. “I

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Serodio thought a post I had written citing the complaints of former European Central Bank chairman Jean-Claude Trichet and author Jonathan Schlefer was too dismissive of modern macro, in particular the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models that dominate academic and central bank macro research.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics. Martin was a former stockbroker and New York Stock Exchange president who took graduate classes in finance at Columbia while working on Wall Street in the 1930s. Then the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

One result is that they keep their cards close to their chests about what they are looking for (at first), while expecting you to reveal everything – your finances, pricing, ownership, human resources, production processes, quality assurance, customer service procedures, KPIs, and existing customers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

” I’ve just finished writing a book about companies in pretty ordinary settings (banks, hospitals, even a parking garage) that have won big by doing truly extraordinary things. Being optimistic is not the same as being totally open to change. Are you as consistent as you are creative?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

One of the most memorable moments was listening to an executive of a British bank rescued by the government, who told his audience that the economic crisis had been a breakthrough moment in his career. One day, it will form the basis of a masters in finance, and you should all grasp this opportunity to learn with open hands."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

So marketers collaborated with IT to design an iPad application that allowed salespeople to enter their book of business and receive detailed customer profiles with background on important customer decision-makers and priorities, as well as status updates and other useful information. Become the organizational “glue” to deliver change. “If

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

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. Taft wrote the book himself (he's a former newspaper reporter) while holding down these two jobs. Taft is CEO of RBC Wealth Management-U.S. Got all that?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

Even people who have achieved a great deal of career success aren’t immune to these feelings, says Whitney Johnson, an executive coach and the author several books including Build an A-Team. Finances were a consideration. You know your opportunities aren’t endless, and you realize that time is finite,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

We have written extensively on shareholder activism , and one of us coauthored a study in the Journal of Finance showing that, on average, activists produce value for targeted companies. By contrast, World Bank data suggests that the average holding period in 2015 for public company shares globally was just over seven months.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

” (Disclosure: both were sponsored by banks.). For guidance on navigating a reinvention, check out the books Chapters by Candice Carpenter and LifeLaunch by Frederic Hudson. Here’s an example from one of my coaching clients: Get my personal finances in order. Take them to lunch and ask them about their experiences.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Recent problems in Kenya’s banking sector have rekindled the necessity for regulators to push for tougher auditing reforms as well. When investors lack confidence in the books, they rarely invest, which deprives markets of liquidity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

In November 2009 I took leave from my academic position to serve as the Secretary General for Information Systems at the Greek Ministry of Finance. This stance also allows you to relax regarding services where everything is open by default. Yet the complexity of cloud-based technology also helped me catch the perpetrator.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As the incoming Chief Executive of Deutsche Bank, John Cryan, recently said in an interview: “I have no idea why I was offered a contract with a bonus in it because I promise you I will not work any harder or any less hard in any year, in any day because someone is going to pay me more or less.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Most businesses don't even know what's going to be required in two or three years," says Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and co-author of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business. Figuring out the answer to this question is not an easy task.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

You can see what he means: our capacity to produce data on everything requires packaging; otherwise, it is like finding oneself in a library where all the books have been disassembled into piles of paragraphs, sentences and words. Now, you might find it odd that this was ever an open debate. Where should all this go in our minds?”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

This is perhaps even more the case in the world of management outside of academic medicine — whether it is finance, consulting, or technology — as the path from professional to senior executive requires more than individual success. For instance, we often ask mentees to read a book and return within a month to discuss it.

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