N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

As the old saying goes “you only get one chance to make a first impression,&# and often times it is the perception of appearance that determines whether or not you are even afforded the opportunity to get up to bat. The truth is most people when first meeting someone will quickly attempt to size them up.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. Bottom Line : Show me any team created of equals and I’ll show you a team that will never reach its full potential… What say you?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. So the next practice for these outsource partners is too keep up with new materials, techniques and processes that allow them to say; “sure we can do that!”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Separately, studying long-run stock returns addresses any issue with the stock market being myopic, i.e. taking time to incorporate the benefits of employee satisfaction. After doing so, I end up with my 2.3% However, I find that it takes the market four to five years before it fully incorporates this information.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While investment in AI is heating up, corporate adoption of AI technologies is still lagging. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. In both places, we know the instability will worsen macroeconomic performance in the short term.

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NPV Short-term Discount Politics 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Lotta Tindal, the chief marketing officer for the Dutch hospitality group Ervaring Hotels & Resorts, hadn’t wanted to come to the presentation, but Gerard Bakker, Ervaring’s CFO, had twisted her arm. But Lotta wasn’t yet ready to gamble a significant portion of her marketing budget on it. .

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

With fiscal remedies on the sidelines, monetary policy had to take up the slack. In short, the middle is being squeezed, the top doesn’t spend enough, the bottom doesn’t earn enough, and the policy mix is fatally flawed. Conveniently, he assumed each household picked up an equal share. We need new policies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Those who want to change that, including Lorsch and Fox, have struggled to come up with breakthrough ideas that would be similarly appealing. Emphasizing shareholders' interests seemed to encourage more flexibility, risk-taking, and bottom-line discipline. He's right about that, of course. It's also not completely wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

For me the lesson is this: Companies should complement a top-down push with as much bottom-up pull as possible to sustain momentum and avoid regression back to previous, inferior levels of performance. Consider the competition between push and pull camps in a major oil company. Which camp is right?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Instagram dodged an operational meltdown that could have rendered the start-up dead on arrival. Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. But the strength of small business is dependent on the availability of bank loans, and the evidence suggests this critical funding may be drying up. job growth and economic security. Yet small business lending has declined steadily since the recession.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. I would encourage you to read a previous post on “ Workforce Reduction.&# I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Just under 1,000 companies account for half of the world's market capitalization, Eccles notes. In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. Breakthrough requires an end to systemic inequities by opening up processes, information - and markets. Breakthrough Finance. Breakthrough Institutions.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

The bottom line is this: If you’re a superstar at work, but a slacker at home you’re not succeeding at anything other than being a disingenuous, ego-centric charlatan. We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. If that impact is shallow and negative, our legacy ends up shallow and negative too.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. With what I’ve noted thus far I’m always amazed at the number of executives who don’t keep up with their professional reading. Do I have your attention yet?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

One day in December 2014, Sergey, the Russia general manager for a multinational consumer goods company, was up early in the morning, watching the ruble’s value slide by the minute. dollars — or wait it out for another two months and hope that the ruble recovers, since that would give him a leg up on his competitors.

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Price Globalization Depreciation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Why stock prices do what they do over the short term is an enduring mystery , and I’m not going to claim to solve it here. Now here are two cutting-edge companies operating in often-fickle markets, and they’re cash machines. In Amazon’s case, all this cash is being used to finance the company’s continued explosive growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2016

This allows firms to build long-term, profitable relationships with customers – seemingly the perfect solution to the era of digital disruption. Leaders… Make sure they have a market/service fit before investing in on-boarding customers. Start at the bottom of the funnel. To serve as a marketing channel.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. Invest in hardware startups and scale-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

But while this notion is uncontroversial in finance, it is disruptive in health care (and education ) where we tend to exaggerate the importance of immediate costs and take a myopic view of benefits. These approaches unambiguously reduce short-run spending. Short-termism is not restricted to drugs; it pervades all of health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

The Weinberg trademarks, which became the Goldman trademarks, were (1) hard-nosed prudence, (2) an extreme emphasis on the partnership , with partners generally able to make serious money only after decades at the firm, and (3) the long-term cultivation of relationships with business executives and politicians. Watch out, Google!)

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. In fact they are always greatest over the long-term, while the costs are concentrated in the near-term. Aadhaar: The Base of the India Stack.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

However, even as a nonprofit, we believed in running the organization as a business; we would sell the product at a margin, and any "profits" would be reinvested back into the company to fulfil our longer term goal: to create a line of affordable medical devices that could save the lives of millions of at-risk babies.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ve compiled a short list of 5 things you thought you already knew about leadership, but may not be putting into practice. What's the bottom line? Therefore, I’ve concluded it’s time to take a step back and review the fundamentals. What did they share? – Your 5 points. Thanks for this guiding article.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

The bottom line is this…the gift of intellect is an asset to be thankful for, and put to good and productive use. Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Bottom line: I’m not sure that the collective body of those who have uttered the mantra of “Culture Trumps Strategy&# actually disagree with me on anything other than how we choose to express our views. Of course, strategy without a good culture is like pushing a rock up hill. Very little in life is either/or.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. My bottom line is this…if you wear perfectionism as a badge of honor it is time for a shift in thinking. Put simply, leaders cannot be successful being guided by fear and hesitation.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

The possibility of a contentious renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to delayed or canceled investments in what has been one of Latin America’s most economically stable markets. The bottom line is, multinationals will not know what will be in the final agreement for years. Renegotiating NAFTA.

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Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Such a settlement must be carefully crafted if it is to avoid making the housing markets worse. Under the terms of the settlement, the penalty would be applied toward lowering loan balances for underwater borrowers. An important part of that task is facing the true costs and consequences of a major new principal reduction program.

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Banking Proposal Cost-Benefit Analysis Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” These are probably the most useful tool the central banks have in terms of forcing banks to disclose to their supervisors the risks they actually face. For more on what the law does, go here.

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