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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rarely will you come across a static opportunity in the sense that it will stand idle and wait for you to act…Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The articles should have been written on the topic of poor leadership. Toxic work environments can only exist where a lack of trust and respect are present, and this can only occur in the absence of sound leadership.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

Astute investors mitigate risks and help to insure operational success by adding value to the business model, and by filling gaps that may exist in any of the areas I mentioned in the opening sentence of the preceding paragraph. Hint: it’s not about the money. .

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Before a Merger, Consider Company Cultures Along with Financials

Harvard Business Review

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. After all, those that find themselves embroiled in bribery scandals, for example, face a host of consequences, including business disruption, steep financial and legal costs, and harm to their brand and reputation.

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The Status Quo Is Risky, Too

Harvard Business Review

If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant. If you have assessed the risk of your strategic options in terms of brand risk, operational risk, market risk, and so on, do the same for the current strategy.

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The Dreaded Performance Review | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

In other words we operate on the principle that equity means treating everyone in the same way. In our top-down, manager-knows-all world, we’re a long way from coaching by the leadership being a required skill. Others do due diligence to the review and have meaningful conversations around peformance, expectations, and the like.