N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

The net result of being a late stage trend follower is that you will likely experience little more than yet another in a long line of great adventures that ended in frustration due to the time wasted and the investment squandered. Failed initiatives are costly at several levels.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Read more at this blog post How Your Shoddy Reputation Could Destroy Your Budding Career.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

She kicked off her October management team meeting, which I was attending, by reading the following passage from my book: The dangers of taking too much risk are very clear. It was quickly followed by several attempts to caveat and soften his headline. We’re reminded of them in the news every day. I loved it.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economics is due for a paradigm shift.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

As we said in a previous blog , if you can't afford to follow your passion, then don't quit your day job. But what if you really want to pursue your passion full-time, right now — as a new business venture, a new career or a new way of life? I am willing to give this idea up to six months to see if it will work.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For many, a corporate directorship is a career capstone. And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The region with the greatest board-level skills gap is Asia, where risk management and M&A adeptness are sorely needed.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The comment I left on Dan’s post was as follows: “Thought provoking post to be sure…However my belief is that the most powerful question of all is the one that works within the context of the situation at hand. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Steve Anderson spent his career in the insurance industry focused on risk and business growth. He is a leading authority on insurance, risk management, technology, and innovation. Management Advice from Jeff Bezos. I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

Similar but much more extreme comeuppances happened in 1990, to former Ontario premier David Peterson, and in 2015, to former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, when they called snap elections to firm up and entrench their majorities. The same thing can happen in an individual’s career, too, if they take on the wrong project.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Every CEO should be cultivating these behaviors to maximize innovative thinking: The most innovative leaders: Manage Risk. Innovative leaders scored 25% higher than their non-innovative counterparts on managing risk. They are also able to change directions quickly to take advantage of new opportunities when they come up.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

An important part of your job as a manager is making sure everyone on your team has the right amount of work. It’s tempting to give the workhorse more projects than others (especially if she’ll get them done the fastest) or to ease up on someone who is struggling, but you also need to be fair. Have a plan.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The reasoning went as follows (I have approximated Kinsleys numbers to make the arithmetic easier). If the discount airlines are ten times more dangerous, this rises to 1 in a million, but you make up for this by saving $50 per flight. The reasoning went as follows (I have approximated Kinsleys numbers to make the arithmetic easier).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

With regulators emboldened by Wal-Mart's debacle, corporations must embrace the lessons of the cover-up and implement preventive and reporting measures. Showing that exact procedures exist and were followed may immunize executives from prosecution under even the strictest anti-corruption laws such as the U.K. Bribery Act.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

In many professions, the idea of full-scope, sophisticated positioning has been foreign up until now. Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Operating units and departments must schedule and follow a program to market their worth to their companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Multiple predictions for the same event can be aggregated and averaged, and therefore help managers understand what entire teams or divisions are thinking. I wanted us to improve host mode, by making it easy for streamers to build and manage a list of channels to automatically host whenever you’re offline.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

We misunderstand probability , we’re myopic , we pay attention to the wrong things, and we just generally mess up. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer has spent his career focusing on the ways in which we get things right , or could at least learn to. What follows is a much-edited rendition of the full conversation. But he feeds you.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

As labor markets continue to open up and nations and the corporations they house chase ways to stem the talent drain and retain their skilled workers, we wanted to know how those at the highest level of industry — corporate directors — viewed the problem and what, if anything, they were doing about it. hiring top talent. assessing talent.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2014

When we looked at board service, we found that FOB and non-FOB directors had served on an almost identical number of boards in their careers (5.8 Strategic Challenges and Talent Management. For the family-owned business breakout: FOBs made up 8% of the sample and non-FOBs constituted 92% of sample. Skills and Assessment.

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