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.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. The following perspectives if kept top of mind will help in identifying and bridging positional gaps: Respect leads to acceptance. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

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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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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. A lack of clarity, the presence of ambiguity, obviously flawed business logic, or constantly shifting priorities/positions are the death of many a venture.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Giddyup Toyota Made a 4-Wheeled Segway That You Bond With Like a Horse Wired It has always seemed sad to me that after thousands of years of being bonded with horses, humans have largely lost that relationship. 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 9, 2012

A superb illustration comes from a Nobel laureate physicist and Secretary of Energy Steve Chu's decision to put together a crisis team of outside experts to brainstorm approaches for handling Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactor. Accessing crazy ideas may matter more than generating them. The (cruel) joke I was told in T.J.

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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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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. I was asked to be Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research, and Information & Communication Technologies. Build bonds to strengthen trust. I would say overall, we harnessed technology to push the country toward the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

As the technology becomes more integrated into everyday life, it will, paradoxically, become more invisible. Jeff Kehoe Sans Chic Making Wearable Tech More Wearable The New Yorker Speaking of technology becoming invisible, let''s face facts: Wearables are ugly. Andy O''Connell. BONUS BITS Do You Want to Know?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. 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. Caterpillar, for example, is reported to have put in place robust contingency plans in advance of the global financial crisis in 2007.

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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 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%. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As University of Toronto professor Ayelet Shachar explained in a Yale Law Journal article : “Countries seeking to attract Nobel Prize contenders, gifted technology wizards, acclaimed artists, promising Olympians, and other high-demand migrants have come to realize the attractive power of citizenship.

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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. The problem is that whatever package you construct – bonds, stocks, or bonuses – whatever performance criteria you decide on will be imperfect.

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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

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. It missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C. They are not.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Commitment - While technology is a natural accelerant helping to catalyze new opportunities and extend relationships, creating trust and influence will still take time. 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.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 8, 2011

Stop feeling overwhelmed with changing technology, culture, business, trends, and values, and regain the confidence that can give you a real advantage. The social implications are significant, from no friends to visit people in the hospital, weakened bonds during crisis, fewer watchdogs to deter neighborhood crime, and a lack of community.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

When a bond of trust is established across the enterprise it makes achieving alignment between the values & vision and the strategy & tactics easier to achieve. There are obviously contextually and environmentally specific issues that would apply to any given situation.

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