N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. 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. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

In my research on how experienced managers and professionals step up to bigger leadership roles, I have observed both the value and the difficulty of returning to our youthful, fake-it-till-you-learn-it strategies. And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading.

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Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even if your organization is skilled at moving pilots and prototypes into production, you will also have to re-engineer the business processes to have full impact on your business and industry. But this sort of skill is quite different from providing advice about what stocks and bonds to buy, and will take some time to inculcate.

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Company Maturity System Engineering 8

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. Mnangagwa’s first actions in office underscore how important he views economic recovery.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

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. “But weren’t sure how.” “We kept trying.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

To make such requests, you're going to need to have built a hell of a personal bond. Say what you do — manage expectations and revisit them frequently. Managers Don't Really Want to Innovate. Depending on where you're working and what you're selling, you may be asking for their courage. Use trials. Do what you say.

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Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

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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Execution P&L CEO COO 8

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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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

A hallmark of skilled leaders and teams is that, as their organizations grow larger and older, as the footprint of a change program expands, they keep looking for signs of once useful but now unnecessary roles, rules, traditions, processes, products, strategies, and services. Yet scaling is also a problem of less.

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Venture Capitalist Brainstorming Proposal CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Yet most remain uneasy or uninvolved when it comes to talking about and managing money. When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. — USA Today.

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Finance P&L Due Diligence Hedge 8