N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. It takes far more courage to display love than disinterest, as compassion requires an investment of time, caring, empathy and understanding. I admire this.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By way of contrast, it is difficult to build rapport if you are driven by an agenda that the other party sees as being a threat to their success or security. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. Thank you for sharing.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These are all useful things to do, and successful executives invest time in them periodically. 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. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. Part of Dan’s success in broadening his network outside his company was his decision to make networking a deliberate part of his weekly routine. How to Get the Most Out of a Conference.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

found those that were successful had twice the number of women on the founding team. 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.

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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. The new assignment meant managing people who had been her superiors and overseeing functions, like finance, in which she had no expertise. So we stick with what’s natural and comfortable.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Its success has come not from promising its customers grandiose results or charging them lots of money, but by promising and delivering nothing but low, low fees. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. Finance Leadership Motivation' Bogle certainly didn’t start out committed to self-abnegation.

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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? My personal and professional network are far more important to my success than my individual competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

In regular phone calls and meetings for nearly two decades, as well as a biennial Pioneering Leaders summit, the group has been helping each other figure out how to work more effectively so they could have time for their lives, sharing successful strategies and learning from failures. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

As I reflected upon my career at Goldman Sachs, though, what stood out was the importance of its organizational structure. One of the key conclusions I drew from my study was that to achieve sustained success and avoid firm-endangering risks, a firm like Goldman has to cultivate financial interdependence among its top employees.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Following are a few tips to help you build influence online: Have a Strategy - If you want to create success and influence using social media you better have a plan. To be successful in creating social media influence your efforts need to be centered around others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In 1993, Apple distributed $273 million in buybacks and $56 million in dividends, even as profits plunged from $530 million to $87 million, compelling the company to do a $297 million long-term bond issue in 1994. Yet these careers and the returns that they can generate are not guaranteed. I disagree with this priority.

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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. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” The two men went way back. ” “And Russia?”

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. I used to discuss the issue at the Fed, “What do we get by being very successful in forecasting?” And I say a bubble.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In reality, Culture does not Trump Strategy, rather they work together to enhance the success of one another. My point was never to trivialize the importance of culture as it is a major key to creating sustainable success in any organization. Said another way: Great businesses are based on a Culture of Success. What say you?

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