Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Just as adults may have a plan for their career or finances, parents need a plan for operating their home. The bond we built with them when they were young has directly impacted our relationship with them as adults. BTW, I love writing about the family, but most of my work is in the field of leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond. He is active in a number of outside finance groups and similarly devotes time at their conferences to seek out and get to know finance talent outside the company.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

On the other end of the growth spectrum, analysis of a dataset from 350 micro finance institutions across 70 countries indicated lending to more women was associated with lower write-offs and lower portfolio-at-risk. Programs like the Center for Women''s Entrepreneurial Leadership are innovating in the academic space.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. In the early decades of his career he was a pretty conventional businessman, rising up the ranks of the mutual fund company Wellington Management and then, as its president, trying to keep it relevant during the go-go investing boom of the 1960s. Finance Leadership Motivation'

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? Thanks for sharing Una. Thanks again for stopping by Sami. [.]

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Instead, I literally mean, consider the alternative. Second, reach out to the people youre with.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“It’s enabled me to have a bond with my daughter now that’s really amazing,” he said. In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “The culture in the bank’s accounting and finance team has changed totally since I got here,” she said.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments. Good luck [link] mikemyatt Hi Robbie: Well said…with leadership that has a world view like yours there is little doubt as to why you've achieved such success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers. That's a tough question.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Besides tax-deferral, consider planning strategies that provide you with tax-free income in retirement, such as municipal bonds or Roth IRAs. Categories : Finance , Guest Posts 1 Comments 1 Tweets that mention A Couple Reasons to Smile About :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 10:45 pm [.]

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Thanks again for stopping by… sage9 I suppose I am in agreement with you – In fact that is probably what I do when strategically building culture through brand leadership – again –Thanks for this post! When an organization trusts its leadership good things tend to happen.

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