N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The ongoing federal investigation of three Equifax C-suite managers for insider trading arose due to alleged stock dumping prior to the revelation of the company’s catastrophic cyber-attack. Additionally, the moderate scale of many private companies sometimes instills a false sense of security.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. World authority on branding and culture transformation. million times.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The facilitator, Caroline Dvorjak , was a marketing professor and a seasoned consultant. Like most of the big hoteliers, however, Otto owned few of those properties; instead it franchised and managed them, with the bulk of the real estate owned by independent companies that licensed Otto’s brands. Then he laughed.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

This is not as difficult as it sounds, especially if you can apply internal pressure to senior management where your product will be used. Make an appointment with the CFO. What do you do EVERY DAY to build attraction and brand? Marketing & Sales buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven'

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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

MAY 8, 2013

He waved his brand-new VillageCar card near the door handle and got in. "It The two were executives of Beacon Car Rental, one of the industry''s most established and respected brands. I know I''m an ops guy and you''re the marketing guru, but I don''t buy it," Henry said. He laughed; Henry grimaced. Tony shook his head.

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LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” That can be, I think, really demotivating.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Despite the fact that the company enjoyed massive brand awareness, escalating acquisition costs were destroying margins.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. It was the pioneer in social networking, arguably one of the highest-potential markets ever. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

While the schools'' own IT infrastructures and apps proved disconcertingly incompatible, Dropbox and skillfully edited Skypes facilitated exactly the kind of real-time and asynchronous coordination and "version management" needed to deliver a "knock-their-socks-off" plan fast. They won eight-figure funding. That''s largely accurate.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales. Most of the input was neutral, which was to be expected. Though brilliant and well respected, Damon wasn’t the warmest of colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

Kate Heiny, who very recently departed as the director of sustainability at Target, told the crowd at this summer’s sizable Sustainable Brands conference that: “With their words and wallets, our customers are asking for more [sustainable products].” That seems to be changing. And it’s not just happening at Target.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

What was so horrible about publicly traded companies that he’d consider being a CEO again, but only if he could avoid public markets? They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. But they need to figure out what to tune out — and learn to manage Wall Street rather than being managed by it. Short answer: no.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. Let’s see what happens when we connect them rather than manage them — that is, focus on the links rather than the nodes. Human capital.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

As important as the volunteers were to BrainGame, they were an opinionated group­ and weren’t always easy to manage. We’ve barely spent anything on marketing, because they do it all for us.” We need to bring in people whose expectations we can manage.” We need to bring in people we can count on and manage.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. Think about that, Angelia.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

These leaders, mostly consumer-facing brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, and IKEA, have been covering their roofs and filling giant fields with solar panels and wind turbines. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Get early buy-in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". IT management' You''d want to make it count. You probably don''t understand where your data is. million, including $35.9

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. He told me, “I found that building one’s personal brand increases chances to get proposals to join strategic initiatives and step out of your day-to-day job for a while.”. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Instead of selling the streetlights and leaving the cities to manage them, the company would rent them out for a monthly fee, with installation, maintenance, and monitoring software all included. The city manager had originally wanted 6,000 lamps but had cut the order back to 1,000 for budgetary reasons. “Higher!”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. IT management' In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. Talent management' There is a better way.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. For example, ‘To decide on a marketing plan and determine the next steps for everyone in the group. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey Merrin, the store manager, met him at the door. "Mr. Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. I'm honored, sir, to be opening a brand new store. Yes, sir, I was worried about that, too — market saturation. Windham, so good to see you, sir.

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