N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. I managed my restaurant from my hospital bed, by writing the menus, for example. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her.

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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

JULY 18, 2012

We're playing in two major markets. The other is medium-size businesses with 20 to about 100 employees; the purchaser at these places is a senior manager, not the owner.". "I Andrew had been one of her first hires at SparkPlace, a two-year-old provider of internet marketing software, and he'd continued to impress her.

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Case Study Marketing Software Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

His book, The Signal and the Noise , explains the power of statistical modeling to improve our predictions about everything from the weather to sports to the stock market. The manager doesn’t want to seem like he’s not sure what he’s doing. Decision making Managing uncertainty'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

For example, lower income shoppers appear willing to pay more now to hedge future costs. Lower income shoppers are also willing to pay more for categories that they see as an investment in their careers and future income. Is the category a hedge, an investment with a greater benefit payoff or a cost to be managed?

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Retail P&L Merchandising Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

He is no Jim Simons , using his mathematical genius to outsmart the market in (to an outsider) incomprehensible ways. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. And now, just after passing the average life expectancy for an American male , he seems to be in the midst of the best run of his career.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Carl had a Ph.D.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. and held senior management positions at several large IT companies. Carl had a Ph.D.

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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

JULY 17, 2018

It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market. Moreover, we have found that the defining characteristic of executive decisions is that there is no right answer, and the options are laden with emotional consequences: Whose career will soar? Whose will be gored?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Imagine that you are choosing between two similar mutual funds, one managed by Marcus and the other by Tanya. Given the general underrepresentation of women among investment professionals, especially in hedge funds, it was not surprising that only about 4.2% Tooga/Getty Images.

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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. Facebook ads or search engine marketing might be appealing possibilities, but for now, they’re too much.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

Which means that all of us, no matter where we are in our careers or what sort of work we do, have to reflect on the kind of workplace that works for us. Many investment banks and hedge funds operate this way, as do some law firms, consulting outfits, and tech titans. The ethos is up-or-out, sink-or-swim, rank-and-yank.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. Your organization, career, even life can change in a single moment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

of middle managers in the U.S. 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. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO's.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

the management consultancy. Such plans frequently include giving managers financial incentives to do what they should have done before — concentrating on the most promising lines, selling off dud businesses, and "leaning down" operations, often including headcount. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

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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. At its peak the company had a market value of $303 billion and by 2007 around four in 10 handsets bought worldwide were made by Nokia. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past?

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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. At its peak the company had a market value of $303 billion and by 2007 around four in 10 handsets bought worldwide were made by Nokia. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past?

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Consensus Hedge Diversity Stress 9

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. We talk about things like yield management, demand curves, and perishable inventory — factors that dictate our pricing strategies.

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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. To borrow a term from Wharton management professor Michael Useem, Owens is most definitely a member of the global elite’s “ inner circle.”. But when they come apart, they can do a lot of harm.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Here are some tips to help front man Mick Jagger, as well as managers in the same situation, profitably navigate out of this mess. Guitarist Keith Richards could casually drop in an interview that this may very well likely be the band''s last tour (the "hedge" in the wording is intentional). Marketing'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it? Can it be resolved?

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2012

And why does a top hedge fund manager "earn" enough to pay for thousands of teachers? Remind me: why is an average investment banker is worth, say, a hundred times as much as an average teacher? Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? And if there is, how does one master — and perhaps — resolve it?

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And the words we use to describe men versus women differ in significant ways that can affect their careers. Such words impact the identities that young girls and women form, pushing many of them to feel that they need to be “nice,” a pressure they carry into their careers. emyerson/Getty Images. Words matter.

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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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