N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While feigned humility is the height of insincerity, authentic humility is the most sincere form of confidence and strength. I Think Not.

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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 Think Not.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The global agriculture crisis's supply and demand imbalance has caused commodities to spike and food to become less affordable. Danger is lurking, he warns, and not just in stocks, but also in bonds and commodities and other asset classes. “I I have no interest in investing in any traditional financial market,” he says.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

“The judge the lawyer the doctor the clergy the widow the trustee of orphans all fell into the common vortex of investing in these bonds,” Life and Fire Insurance Company director Jacob Barker wrote in a letter in 1827. ” Nonetheless, when the crisis hit in the Fall 2008, the financial world seemed to be blind-sided.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. The following perspectives if kept top of mind will help in identifying and bridging positional gaps: Respect leads to acceptance. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. ” A crisis breeds pervasive dread. We called this bonding “tent time.” Avoid secrecy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The most painfully awkward debates I hear in ostensibly innovative organizations revolve around "crazy ideas." Defining those crazy zones is one of the most difficult but more important cultural decisions innovation leadership teams can make. When unexpected challenges arise, what ideas are acceptably crazy? Which ideas are too crazy?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Unfortunately, the financial services sector hasn''t been doing a very good job in these realms as they lurch from one major financial crisis to another. These institutions are already feeling their license come under threat from increasing regulations as the government attempts to address the causes of the latest crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. They feel it is their responsibility to serve their followers , especially in times of crisis and change. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Organizational agility, innovation, and growth are really difficult without engaged employees. They feel it is their responsibility to serve their followers , especially in times of crisis and change. As a result, the company may find it hard to sustain the gains, much less drive future growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

But with James Bond movies, there’s no reason to expect that the latest Bond movie [Quantum of Solace] has anything to do with the previous Bond movie [Casino Royale]. Leading Innovation Is the Art of Creating “Collective Genius” The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service. So it gives you added freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Promote empathy during a crisis. Apple tried to engage the loyal customer about the bad news, and the crisis was a bonding moment for the company. During a crisis, the empathy virtue can turn a negative emotion to a positive one, altering betrayal to sympathy, anger to forgiveness, and dis-identification to identification.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

To do so, they need to find a way of interacting with the Greek state, which is notorious for slowing down businesses, imposing a mountain of regulation and protecting incumbents by discouraging innovators. Precedents, such as Spain’s creation of corporate bonds tailored to SME’s, exist, and should be urgently prioritized.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

If you want to remain relevant and advance your career in today's global marketplace, you need to serve as an enabler of business growth and innovation. Likewise, some of the strongest bonds in business , across the entire value chain, occur when employees, partners and distributors are treated like family. Anticipate the Unexpected.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

This has led to a deep political crisis and the country was at the brink of a civil war. Separate the transformation or innovation team from the traditional part of the organization. Our job was to come up with innovative ideas to move our country forward and for that we needed the space to think and be creative.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. However, for people working on creative tasks — where innovative, non-standard solutions are needed – results showed that a large percentage of variable pay hurt performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. It’s about mutual fund fees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

link] mikemyatt Great insights Una – I not only agree that business is personal, but leaders who don't personalize business will never establish the trust bonds necessary for effective leadership. " Thanks for sharing. Thanks for sharing Una. Thanks again for stopping by Sami. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

When an organization is small enough that each member can have a personal relationship with every other, or at least recognize their faces and names, gathering everyone for regular meetings strengthens social bonds and bolsters the feeling that “we are one company.” But an intimate gathering with, say, 500 of your best friends isn’t feasible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. (Tobacco production, the country’s main foreign exchange earner, slumped dramatically between 2000 and 2008.) billion in arears) that the government is now a reliable borrower.

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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. Regardless of the medium, you’ll rarely find influential people who don’t recognize the value of staying the course. I Think Not.

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge. And they're one of the biggest “difference-makers” in the workplace. The difference between a leader and a manager is people skills. The difference between a good employee and a stronger, high-performing employee is people skills.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

You must clearly define a brand’s product benefits to set up more intimate, emotional bonds. It is these emotional bonds that will form the basis of a lasting consumer relationship. Deepen the connection – At this stage, the bond with our consumer is so strong that they feel that the brand is “a brand made for me.”

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Every vibrant, healthy, inspiring, innovative, and positive corporate culture I’ve witnessed has occurred not because culture has been placed ahead of strategy, but because it has been a key driver of the corporate strategy. There are obviously contextually and environmentally specific issues that would apply to any given situation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose? Bankers’ bonuses?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

He likened the growing climate crisis to the fiscal crisis of 2008, a mess he had to deal with firsthand. Investors in particular are starting to notice the massive risk to business and acting accordingly — see Barclays’ downgrading the bonds of U.S. And Hank Paulson, George W. Let that sink in for a moment.

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