N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These companies have placed themselves far behind the technology curve because tenured managers hire employees with obsolete skill sets and together they create mediocre solutions. Reward talent, innovation, loyalty, attitude, creativity, work ethic, contribution, and leadership ability…not tenure.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. They will not compromise their value system and personal ethics for temporary gain. Section VII: Likeability.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2019

Go to someone who has a complementary skill set (it doesn’t help if you are both good at the exact same things,) someone who is as passionate as you about the business, and someone who loses as much sleep about the business as you do. Don’t go straight to your friend, family member, or roommate. “Diversify.” Good luck!

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Mentor Bottom-up Entrepreneur Discount 63

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. 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.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

There are female pilots, women in the military, as CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies, everywhere and anywhere that calls to talent and skill. I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&# Now, fifty years later we have made headway on all fronts. I can’t see one.

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Press Release Discount PR Parcell 193

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Rather than just kill something with a quick no, a good leader uses every adverse scenario as a development opportunity to help people advance their critical thinking and decisioning skills. While I understand that there are times when using no may be your only option, those times should be the exception and not the rule.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities. CEO accepts and ideas and philosophies with employees and stakeholders.

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Succession Strategic Planning Goal Budgeting 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

You suspect that your finance colleague might be fudging numbers, your boss isn’t telling his manager the truth about an important project, or your co-worker is skipping out of the office early but leaving her computer on so it looks like she’s just down the hall. Sometimes you sense that something isn’t right at work.

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Ethics How To Morale Information 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. What Can CEOs Do? treating suppliers as partners). Educate and Motivate Others.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

I’m sure you’ll enjoy his wisdom about the intersection of character, trust, and ethics. We are prone to make bad, and sometimes unethical judgements when there is greater pressure to “get’er done,” versus to get things done ethically, safely, or legally. Some people would call these virtues and they are.

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Ethics Execution Servant Leader Survey 95

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2011

But equally important is character, by which I mean solid ethics and especially the ability to inspire trust. Finding people with the right combination of competence, character and team skills isn't easy, of course, even if you conduct a long, carefully-orchestrated search. By "talent," I mean three things. Teach others.

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Supply Chain Collins Long-term Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Company Committee Ethics Project 8

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2015

Leadership isn’t simply a skill or a body of knowledge that one memorizes. Medical doctors are considered one of the most respected professions, yet the incidence of violations of ethics, misconduct and more appear to be higher than what one would expect from a profession that goes by the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm.

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Crisis Books Ethics Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Contrary to the common fear that educated and skillful workers are more difficult to retain, our experience is that workers' attachment to us grows as they absorb and share our values and passion.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

I winced when Daniel, the 32-year-old CEO, said, “Come on, guys, I need you all to focus more on execution. Many startup CEOs adopt this “visionary entrepreneur” leadership style. If we’re going to scale successfully at the pace we’ve laid out, we’ve got to execute faster and delegate more.

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Brainstorming Leadership Delegation Self-aware 10

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. Jeff Skilling, as a condition of his employment at Enron, insisted the company adopt mark-to-market accounting.

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Do you have a marketable skill? “The first step is to make sure that you have a skill that’s in demand,” says King. These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience.

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Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Nathaniel Koloc, the CEO of ReWork , which provides recruiting services to companies that offer purposeful work, says that’s because no one really ever teaches us how: “Very few parents, teachers, and mentors urge us to think about this or give us mental models to use,” he says. Ethics Feature. What the Experts Say.

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Career How To Finance Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2018

For example, firms with better-connected CEOs can obtain cheaper financing , and firms with well-connected board directors see better performance. We wanted to explore whether the diversity of CEOs’ networks might affect their firms.

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Diversity CEO Sample Financial Leverage 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2012

At the same time that we were surveying organizations broadly, we also surveyed their senior leadership (a group ranging from five to twelve in number, always including the CEO) about their effectiveness as a team. Perhaps they believe better decisions result from productive collaboration. But few deny that teamwork is vital.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. By maintaining an awareness of further changing environments, there are further opportunities to be successful, ethical and move ahead of the competition. We cannot fool them.

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“There needs to be a clearly articulated and repeated value that everyone ought to be equally contributing his or her talents, skills, and energy,” she says. “I knew her work ethic,” he says. Let it be known that “people should be pulling their weight” and willing to help each other, she says.

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Recently, my colleagues and I interviewed dozens of these higher-ambition CEOs , all of whom taught us a valuable lesson: integrity is at the heart of great leadership. Particularly, I wonder to what extent business schools foster the integral skills these higher-ambition leaders use as a foundation for their success: Business Integration.

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360-Degree Feedback Ethics Education Human Resources 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2014

That may involve learning new skills, reprioritizing your tasks, or reevaluating how you come across to colleagues. When Denis Coleman was promoted from finance to management in a fast-growing electronics manufacturer, he didn’t have any experience leading a team. Make a performance plan. So it was a double shock.”.

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Performance Review Review Case Study Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass. The Moral Frame.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8