N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do. When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on. Second, we need to ask what is this a crisis of ?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The sad fact is that many business people are absolutists in that they only see things in terms of rights and wrongs. Thinking in terms of “ my way &# is right and therefore “ other ways &# are wrong is the basis for polarizing any relationship, which quickly results in converting discussions into power struggles.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

While rates and terms varied, it was not unusual for post notes to trade at yields of 2 percent per month or more, compared to banks that were lending at yields of five percent per year, Professor Hilt’s research found. Needless to say, these products were very profitable as long as default rates were low.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences. It would carry traumatic and long-lasting consequences.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If a leader’s primary obligation is for the care and well being of those under their charge, then I would suggest that you cannot be an effective leader over the long-term without love, compassion and empathy. In fact, some of the toughest leaders I know are the most compassionate leaders.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Consider bonding with another pastor. My guess is you’re looking for a longer-term relationship, so be willing to build it over a long-term. Most of the time as pastors our attention is focused more on the one who need our attention because of a crisis or immediate need in their life. I understand your pain.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. You must establish your own identity, which is a long, exacting process. Long-term success must be earned. Professional enrichment must be life-long.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Setting aside the issues of political legitimacy this raises in democracies, high and sustained levels of inequality are bad for long-run growth. One lasting consequence of the global financial crisis is a high global equity risk premium.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it’s kind of sort of about to start ever-so-timidly pulling back on the massive monetary stimulus it’s been pouring out since the financial crisis. When you view this reaction in terms of expectations, it makes a bit more sense. It] elevated the long-term asset value expectation.”.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

After a bit of head scratching the Fed decided to try something else — the "twist" — where they bought short-term assets in exchange for long-term securities to try and lower long-term rates. were loan rates while in Europe it was government bond rates that were the target. So what happens now?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

How much control do policymakers have over what the economic fallout is — short- and medium-term? They have some control in the medium-term; they have very little control in the short-term or long-term. In the short-term, recession is pretty much baked into the cake for the UK. What about Europe?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

For so long, it was a price he had never had to pay," writes Carlson. One: In the long term, soft skills such as mentoring, inspiring, and “selling” (of concepts and goals) would be much more effective than combat drills. In that sense, it’s like a chariot, but you''re supposed to bond with it, just as you would with a horse.

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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. In academic terms, we would put it this way: extrinsic motivation causes people to distort the truth regarding goal attainment. Contingent pay leads to cooking the books.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Many immigrant families experienced crisis and change in their mother countries, which can make them more proficient at anticipating crisis and managing change before circumstances force their hand. Once unleashed, this passionate sense of purpose — as long as it remains consistent and authentic — opens new doors.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As Ayelet Shachar pointed out, governments now view emigrants as “immensely important remittance providers, generous supporters in times of crisis in the home country, foreign investors (through specialized bonds, for example), builders of transnational knowledge networks, and ambassadors of good will.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I spent a dozen years there — a tenure that overlapped with Dudley’s — went on to work at several other firms, and then, after the financial crisis, decided to go back to school. Restricting stock sales could push their thinking and actions in a more long-term direction. I now have a Ph.D. million from $23 million.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change. More recently, it has come in the form of the swarms of “apps” sold to individual departments to solve scheduling and care-coordination problems and to “bond” with “consumers.” As the U.S.

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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%. This is also a good time to look for the best possible potential business partners – they are eager for investment but may not be available for long if interest in the market picks up.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

The company’s executives said that to help finance the plan, McDonald’s would increase refranchising (turning company-owned restaurants into franchises), take on more debt (even at the risk of lowering its bond rating ), and find $300 million to cut in general and administrative expenses.

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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. So long, [link] mikemyatt Hi Justino: Thanks for your comment. Long road ahead. Keep your thinking along those lines and you'll find your legs before long.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

Interpret the results to management in terms that are easy to understand and support. It is a bond of trust that, if violated, will haunt the business. If steadily built, the trust can be exponentially parlayed into successful long-term business relationships. Document the findings. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This mindset focuses leadership on making near-term decisions with the longer-term destination in mind, but it doesn’t presume that there is only one path from here to there. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Consider bonding with another pastor – I guarantee you — not too far from you is a pastor just as lonely or in need of a friend as you are feeling. My guess is you’re looking for a longer-term relationship, so be willing to build it over a long-term. Don’t struggle alone too long without reaching out to someone.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I’ve come a long way since then.”. Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. It missed the crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the person leading the Financial Stability Board's recovery and resolution work programme, believes that banks have "nowhere to hide" in the post-crisis era and must face navigate stress in the future without relying on Government support. In other words: it's cheaper in the long run.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Since the financial crisis, he has emphasized that individual nation-states need something approximating a healthy fiscal situation if the world system is to avoid periodic collapse. The world's major economies have been engaged in a strategy of irreversible interconnection for so long that there's no turning back.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

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. After all, when a disaster like the financial crisis hits, which problem do you tackle first? The purpose? It can be a daunting task. Bankers’ bonuses?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I agree that a corporate culture not built upon a foundation of solid corporate values will not thrive over the long-haul. I’ve been a practitioner of cultural marketing for more than fifteen years because it makes sense to communicate where consumers work and play and relate on their terms. Thanks again for stopping by.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 20, 2012

Command & Control is also useful, and often required, in a crisis. They encourage them to bond with each other, work as a team and focusing people on common goals. They don’t take charge in a crisis. Coaching is about the long-term development of people. It’s very effective when dealing with beginners.

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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. These long-term numbers are just for scale and to, well, scare us into action. And Hank Paulson, George W. This Republican and former Goldman Sachs exec actually called for a tax on carbon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Other countries sometimes have actual fiscal crises, when investors around the world (not to mention most locals) lose confidence in their government bonds and/or their currency. The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. Well, maybe.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2013

The energy crisis and subsequent recession of 1974 created further pressures, as did the inflationary spiral of the decade, the result of the simultaneous pursuit of the Vietnam War and an ambitious set of social programs during the 1960s. A form of low-grade debt known as "junk bonds" provided a new source of funds.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

There is not an infrastructure spending crisis. There is no spending crisis? Further, thousands of municipalities and agencies still issue municipal bonds to finance water, power, road, and other projects that are largely self-funding or “bankable” projects. This conversation misses the mark.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It is hard to overstate the sheer economic cost of the 2008 financial crisis. The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan.

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