N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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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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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Working with a CEO of a large non-profit this was the exact question and challenge we faced. Share company struggles, successes and finances. Please share the finances in a manner that is easy to understand. Before the planning meeting have some idea of the longer term areas and impacts that are to be achieved.

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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. I Think Not.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

What’s the role of NEDs, CEOs and Government in creating inclusive workplaces? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. You can find all the info here.

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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. Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market.

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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 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. If you are a CEO or entrepreneur and don’t see team building as a priority, then the text the follows is written for you.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside. 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. link] Allan W.

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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. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

Innovation is famously difficult — many projects end up losing money, frustrating employees, and going nowhere. And yet corporations and governments spend billions of dollars annually pursuing innovation. Innovation projects often fail because the resources are spent on the wrong kind of innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous. This model is an innovative way for donors to achieve greater impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

In terms of the real world of building businesses and creating value, basically, HFTs don’t matter. Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever dig in on this topic , and they identify a number of reasons companies are being pressured to act with an increasing short-term focus. But what about everyone else? The final destination?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. While the design may be grand, leaders must deliver short-term results by starting small and proving the concept (or not).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

Most fail far short of the owners’ ambitions. It’s every businessperson’s nightmare: his or her company is failing, dysfunctional, stuck in neutral, and/or is disappointing overall, from the finances to the customer feedback. There are millions of companies in the world. But there are really only four.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&# If CEOs spent half as much time on talent initiatives as they do complaining about talent, their companies would see significant improvement thus obviating the need for all the complaining. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. Note: We are not arguing that top managers such as CEOs should be paid less. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. Or those who find themselves on the short end in the latest reorganization or merger selection? With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Here’s a case example.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. To fulfill this mission, Linda Sanford, SVP of Enterprise Transformation, told us about three capabilities that IBM has built and which continue to evolve under its new CEO Ginni Rometty: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Earlier this year, I asked a CEO of Fortune 100 company how he dealt with analyst pressure. What he said was this: "I don't know any CEO that would want to run a company the way analysts would want us to.". Not coincidentally, these CEOs are also deep sustainability thinkers. It's a strategic and operational straight-jacket.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

The first 100 days are usually the honeymoon period for any new CEO to make their mark and get others on board. However, for Airbus CEO Christian Streiff, it was just a brief window before his abrupt departure from the European aircraft company that’s part of the EADS consortium, along with DiamlerChrysler and Aerospatiale-Matra.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios. The investment portfolio.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In practical terms, what that means is we start asking questions about our purpose, our identity as a group, our way of getting work done, and how to improve what we’re doing. Lou Gerstner, the former IBM CEO, once said, “Culture is everything.” Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. While well-intentioned, these efforts fail to recognize that CEO behavior is largely circumscribed by firm structure.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. Our research with members of the global C-suite, and with leading sustainability and innovation experts, has identified seven vectors of breakthrough change. Breakthrough Finance. Business would change the rules of the game. Breakthrough Science.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. The perception has been eroding our industry's image and has caused many in our industry to assume that R&D, innovation, and social contribution are unaffordable luxuries in a fiercely cost-based competitive game.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Its CEO, John Fallon, says of this approach, “It is by having a bigger impact on education — measured by expanding access and improving outcomes — that we will make Pearson a faster-growing and more sustainably profitable company.” There is enough time to develop innovative solutions to achieve the results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

It has done this by popularizing one of the two or three really important financial innovations of the past 50 years, the index fund. In terms of lasting influence and impact, then, it’s hard to think of many other living business leaders (Sergey Brin and Larry Page? In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. The logical answer?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve met so many leaders who are brilliant when it comes to product design and capital structure but who treat the people in business as an afterthought, a matter of sound administration as opposed to daring innovation. But the reality of competition today is that long-term success is virtually impossible without short-term stumbles.

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