N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While you might not detect brand taints associated with overexposure in the short-term, this principle holds true across most genres over time. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. I have been generally well regarded throughout my career for building extremely effective teams, and what I can share with you is that team building is not about equality at all. I work with a small group of leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? The first step in solving the problem is to deal in whole truths, not untruths or partial truths.

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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. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2015

These countries have excellent research systems with a high number of influential scientific publications, relatively high levels of government and business R&D expenditure and venture capital financing, strong public-private collaborations, and a wealth of intellectual assets in patent applications and community trademarks.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? And that’s really the source of this digital work crisis. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Then again, that’s sort of what Bogle’s been doing since 1974, when he took a crisis that was all about him — he’d been fired by his business partners — and somewhat inadvertently turned it into something that was about defending the interests of retail investors everywhere. In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

While this practice may show some positive results in the short term, it is not easily sustainable. I agree it is all about authenticity and coming to terms with being a role model for your staff whether you like it or not! Overall it’s quite a responsibility but one you have to come to terms with!

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

We then conducted a series of in-depth individual interviews, delving into pivotal experiences in their personal history and career progression, and using Korn Ferry’s executive online assessment to measure key personality traits and drivers that had an impact. But what else did you do? That conversation was a bit of a wake-up call.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Although he came from a family of short-lived men, he had an iron constitution and weathered many illnesses that would have killed a less robust man. That Washington was childless proved a great boon to his career. He then had to borrow money again when he moved back to Virginia after two terms as president.

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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.&#

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 25, 2009

There are many definitions for the term office politics but I think it is about power; how we acquire it and; how we use it to influence others while also promoting our own agenda. In short, these are the practices that can make organizational life intolerable But let’s not throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water here.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

It has been tempting and it’s flattering to be considered by other firms, but I have decided that what’s best for me is to pursue my career as an independent consultant. John Baldoni : You asked us to keep our answers short so I don’t have time to delineate all my faults, but let me say one thing I work on is patience.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Quitting a job can negatively impact your career and disrupt your personal life. You may fantasize about telling your boss to take this job and shove it, but that will only give you short-term relief and could possibly ruin your professional life. Run short experiments to test whether your current situation is unfixable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills. Their main duty appears to ensure that job-seekers engage in some job search, appropriate or not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. What distinguishes members of one group from another rarely has anything to do with intellect, wealth, social pedigree, career standing, or other like pursuits…It has everything to do with desire.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. And maybe its too busy. Lets face it.

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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. Most articles speak on team work but when dealing with concept of leadership they speak only in terms of individual , But yours for the first time is thought provoking.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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. It is not an excuse to be lazy, arrogant, mean-spirited or delusional. Is your experience similar to, or different than what I’ve shared above?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C.

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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. While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Therein lies my caution…I’m fearful that people who don’t have the experience or intuition to read between the lines of a short quote, or a 140 character Tweet, might be misled by the simplicity of the appeal. This is why I took the time to author today’s post. Of course this is rhetorical.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.

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