N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. Follow Through : It takes no ability to simply do what you say you’re going to do. Nothing is more important for a leader than keeping promises and commitments.

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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

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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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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Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 22, 2015

As an executive coach, I often work with clients to expand their leadership behaviors. The Dumb Blonde Experiment This experiment was for a class I was taking to deepen my executive coaching skills. Being a dumb blonde significantly improved my ability to be a better executive coach. Here’s how it worked.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. These are all useful things to do, and successful executives invest time in them periodically. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For chief executives and other senior leaders, it is not unusual for 60-80% of their pay to be tied to performance – whether performance is measured by quarterly earnings, stock prices, or something else. We propose that, instead, most firms should pay their top executives a fixed salary.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. Respecting the right to differ while being productive is a concept that all successful executives and entrepreneurs master. The following perspectives if kept top of mind will help in identifying and bridging positional gaps: Respect leads to acceptance.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have found that highly productive executives and companies clearly understand the value, leverage, efficiency, and economies of scale that are generated by assembling highly focused, motivated, and productive teams. Team building basics are often overlooked by ineffective leaders or unproductive companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

A survey from The Creative Group found that only 9 % of executives think productivity would decrease significantly if employees used more vacation time. Job benefits that don’t directly impact an individual’s lifestyle and finances were the least coveted by survey respondents, such as in-office freebies like food and coffee.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

And Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, already under fire for a fraudulent bank account scheme , has faced tough questions about his salary and the multimillion-dollar retirement package of Carrie Tolstedt, a key executive tied to the scandal. Golden parachutes such are now paid out even when executives leave amid scandal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The Barron's article mentioned that a 690 million euro convertible bond sale in February had bought Amazon some more time (the list was based on 1999 year-end data) — but that the company would still run out of cash in 21 months. billion in bonds the year before). But it also included a certain Internet bookseller from Seattle.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging). But you have to play the long game.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. Finance Sustainability SASB'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

and the transfer of business risk from "too big to fail" institutions to taxpayers, leading to a "heads I win, tails you lose" relationship between the finance and the rest of the economy. Recent scrutiny of the U.S. The debate has been about enforcement and regulation of the industry. Both valid points, but both miss the crucial issue.

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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. And, legitimized by MSV, a prime way in which corporate executives fuel this hope is by doing massive stock buybacks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. Bogle pushed through the creation of the all-stock Windsor Fund (the Wellington Fund’s big selling point had been that it conservatively mixed stocks and bonds), then a merger with an aggressive upstart money management firm. Finance Leadership Motivation'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

But it isn't true that the entire finance and investment industry is guilty of the cultural lapse that Smith is describing. Yu testified before Congress about the problems on Wall Street and in bond rating firms, and was profiled on NPR about her decisions. —the home of the Vanguard Group.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2015

“Until we can manage time,” Peter Drucker declared in The Effective Executive , “we can manage nothing else.” But barely a handful broke the bonds of a calendar format to map time and effort. Wrote one: ‘I no longer feel guilty.’” ’” That’s liberating.

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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? Mostly attitude determines how far we can be bold to this subject. Just addition to what i said previously.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Even before announcing his new cabinet, Mnangagwa installed a key reformist, Patrick Chinamasa, as acting finance minister, tasked with tackling corruption and re-engaging with international institutions to unlock funds to ease liquidity shortages. Most importantly, executives have to follow developments closely.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

billion each on buybacks and dividends, equivalent to 134% of its net income, and its executives can do up to $8.1 Rather, it is corporate executives with their stock-based compensation who benefit. .” In 2014, McDonald’s expended $3.2 billion in buybacks in 2015 under its current board-authorized repurchase program.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Second, reach out to the people youre with.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. “It’s enabled me to have a bond with my daughter now that’s really amazing,” he said. ” Making a Plan to Put Family First.

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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.” The language of “more” pervades discussions of the topic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

And investors are noticing: in May, Barclays bank downgraded the bonds of the entire U.S. Regulatory and executive branch actions also made waves this year, especially in the U.S. Financing the clean economy. utility sector. Seeing the writing on the wall, German utility E.On In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As a consequence, public firms often have access to many different credit facilities and financing options that private companies do not enjoy. There are many instances where entrepreneurs take their companies public only to later end up being thrown off the board of directors or fired from other executive roles.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In other words, hospital executives wanted to focus on what they felt were important drivers of the patient experience but didn’t know for sure. Two, leadership rounds are an important means of exposing non-medical leaders in finance, operations, and other areas of the hospitals to the front lines of patient care.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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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

Some cultures are deliberate – built and crafted carefully by the executive team and often consultants. Due to this resistance, I believe that culture CAN trump strategy, to the extend that the strategy and execution thereof are unsuccessful. Cynthia I agree that strategy and culture are intertwined.

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