N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

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. It is not too difficult to get your crew all oaring together when these characteristics are firmly in place because they now know which direction to row.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and a way to develop new skills. ” Don’t just come up with a clever notion; make sure people actually want it before you spend a lot of money developing it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Whose will be gored?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

” We collected data from a private online knowledge-sharing platform where buy-side (hedge fund, mutual fund) investment professionals (analysts, portfolio managers) share their investment recommendations to buy and sell a given security, along with the analysis supporting their position, with other members of this platform.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it''s worse — i.e. if we''re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ? They killed it!"

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. Whereas if it’s worse — i.e. if we’re told that rather than having a 10% chance of developing cancer, we actually have a 30% chance — we tend to ignore this new information ?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. Costs naturally drop as people gain experience collaborating and develop the trusted relationships that smooth the process, but you should take steps to lower those costs more quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Fortunately, we are witnessing three fundamental changes that offer hope. Take the story of Salman Khan and the eponymous Khan Academy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. As they’d flown to Peoria together on Air Force One, Owens had explicitly stated that the layoffs were an outcome of an international market crash, and the stimulus plan was irrelevant to this particular factory.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Let's start off with a pop quiz: Who is the CEO of your career? I'm not sure why I'm asked so often for career advice — guess it could be my job title (chief talent officer), or the well-documented ebbs and flows of my own journey. Finally, optimize your career-life fit. I was reminded (once again) of this just last week.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Without a good network, you will also limit your own imagination about your own career prospects. By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Today’s fashion in data science favors flashy sophistication with a dash of sci-fi, making AI and machine learning the darlings of the job market. Instead of asking an analyst to develop their statistics or machine learning skills, consider encouraging them to seek the heights of their own discipline first. What about analysts?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. They partnered up with IBM to develop OS/2 , and decimated the Windows team. In response, I usually tell the following story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. Welcome a less proscribed, full of surprise, career path.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Aimee, a senior executive at a global financial services firm, had carefully cultivated her network of sponsors and supporters over 15 years, but recently, she watched helplessly as waves of market dislocation, structural reorganizations, and headcount reductions battered the industry and shredded her connections.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation. Our pricing, as I mentioned earlier, is demand-driven and what the market will bear, and generally the market will bear a lot.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets. Another indication of the speed and extent of dominance is market cap.

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