N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 8, 2022

Sarah is the former President and CEO of a wonderful company, Bottom Line Inc., has provided consumer health and finance news to over 20 million readers worldwide. Endorphins , often referred to as the body’s natural painkillers, are the hormone that athletes get “addicted” to because they feel so good after activity.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

It is designed to be an organized directory, with articles and references to thousands of other WebSites on the World Wide Web. LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

In fact, I hold Marshall in such high professional regard that he is one of only three other coaches that I’ll refer people to if I’m unable to meet their needs. Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff, Alan Mulally, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

If gossip pervades your organization and you are not aware of it, then you clearly don’t have the pulse of your organization, your public statements about the importance of culture and morale will seem disingenuous, and you’re likely guilty of being what I refer to as a disconnected leader.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

To be a frugal CEO , here are three approaches you could take. These fees can eat out of your finances if they aren’t carefully managed. In case you’ve never heard about it before, in summary, it refers to buildings that have multiple units that are used for different purposes which are usually residential as well as commercial.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

While most C-level execs have a general idea of what I’m referring to, it is also quite clear that most can’t even begin to define it, much less articulate the specific constructs of a sound business model.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the often misunderstood value of influence… Let me be clear…when I mention influence I’m not referring to manipulation, elaborate schemes, or other forms of skulduggery. Influence is built upon making others successful : This is often times referred to as the law of reciprocity. Trust Matters….

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The term “layoff” simply refers to letting go of employees, either temporarily or permanently. Kindly reach out to the finance department to collect your salary for this month. In this article, we look at what it means to lay off employees, the causes, what must be included in a layoff letter, and some sample layoff letter templates.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years. However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. From N2Growth [link] [.] I will be curating again, soon.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2019

To be a frugal CEO , here are three approaches you could take. These fees can eat out of your finances if they aren’t carefully managed. In case you’ve never heard about it before, in summary, it refers to buildings that have multiple units that are used for different purposes which are usually residential as well as commercial.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

As I stated above, having an underexposed brand, or what I like to refer to as having a brand in stealth mode, means that you really don’t have much of a brand. Whether you’re assessing the strength of a personal or corporate brand, finding the appropriate level of brand exposure is key to sustainable growth in brand equity.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Lastly, conducting a background check and thoroughly vetting references is also something that should not be glossed over. In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. link] Holly Munn Getting the right person is challenging.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., only to fail in miserable fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

As the CEO, your ability to transfer your passion to your employees is the essence of being a great leader…So much so that if you can’t accomplish this, you simply can’t be a great leader. You must get your employees to engage. Kevin Excellent summary.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Ganguly, CEO of DimDim, suggested that we organized “virtual book readings” over their platform. Our community has successfully established a culture of bootstrapping as a counterforce to the compulsive rush to financing that entrepreneurs mistakenly often engage in, only to be rejected over and again by investors.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

I couldn’t disagree more…In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on what I refer to as the fallacy of no. While inherently obvious, it should not go unnoticed that the use of the word no is 100% negative. The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I am not referring to things like accounting best practices but to business strategy, marketing approaches, etc. Never copy or follow slavishly – seek new ground and own it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What I like to refer as “positional gaps&# are best closed by listening to all sides, finding common ground and then letting the principle of doing the right thing guide the process. If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

However, I refer to them as moral values. Something done or said due to substance abuse, succumbing to a bribe or fraud when finances are tight, or erupting under pressure and tearing down another human being can all lead to a complete loss of trust credits. Out of seven people, the only person who wrote anything down was the CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Solyndra's example has been particularly stark: it raised over $1 billion in equity finance in addition to receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the Department of Energy, all prior to a cancelled IPO and the recent FBI investigation upon its bankruptcy.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). References: Cosgrove, T. About the Author. JD., & Rosa, C. Retrieved from [link].

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

CEOs and organization leaders who read only his column (or worse, only the title) and split HR as he suggests, will make a serious mistake that will destroy value for their shareholders and constituents. Why is this so obvious when it comes to Finance, and so obscure when it comes to HR? Lets be clear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Every winter, my colleagues and I invite CEOs of some of the world’s largest businesses to join our students at Stanford University. Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. The Old Dilemma.

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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. I liked your reference to fallacy that the truth can somehow be hidden – it cannot.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This whole idea of learning from younger employees, sometimes referred to as “reverse mentoring,” can create tricky dynamics. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections. Shelve the ego — and communicate. Morgan, after all, works for me.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

As a CEO when you start to lower the chinning bar by allowing for the hiring of someone based more on their diversity segment than their talent you are enabling the demise of your enterprise. First, when I made reference to “making space”, I was really talking about making space in the selection pool, not at the table.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Deming referred several times to the need to have a senior statistical leader reporting to the CEO. For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor? And that was a sincere concern of his. The third under appreciated area is the call for statistical leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references. Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. Engage the finance organization. What happened?

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

The CEO of a large industrial company recently described the Trump administration as “the most pro-business since the Founding Fathers.” CEOs from some of the biggest food businesses have spoken out about threats to their supply chains from volatile energy prices and a changing climate (brought on, in part, by auto emissions).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

PwC, meanwhile, calculated the economic cost of large global companies getting their most important C-suite appointment – CEO – wrong: well over $100 billion. Would you hire a surgeon who wasn’t trained in medicine or delegate a major financial investment decision to someone who hadn’t studied finance?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ability. Great CEOs realize the importance of being consistently, purposefully and intensely engaged with their CXOs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

In March 2012, for example, Chris Viehbacher, CEO of Sanofi-Aventis, told an audience at the CED Life Sciences Conference that "the best people who have great ideas in science don't want to work for a big company. Nonetheless we counsel CEOs to mind the rhetoric.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2014

You also have support staff, including the people in marketing, finance, HR, and other functions. Selectively removing supervisors (sometimes referred to as “delayering”) can reduce workload and costs throughout your organization. When Alan Mulally first became CEO of Ford, he did away with the CEO’s chief of staff position.

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