N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2017
We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better. What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. If you sit in the big chair, you don’t get paid to make safe decisions; you get paid to make the right decision. CEOs whose default setting is to “play it safe” do not impress me.
HR Digest
MAY 26, 2022
Sometimes, HR managers and CEOs have their favorite workers and they assign them important projects, but in the future, this will be changed. . For all these reasons, the employees need to find a safe harbor at their workplaces where they can feel secure and protected. There is one question that arises among these things.
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CEO Blog
MARCH 1, 2011
Sail away from the safe harbor. Of course, Twain spelled sales wrong and the lawyers keep advising not to leave the safe harbor. As with most good books, it has lots of good quotations like: "20 Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2011
Companies are sitting on piles of cash, several CEOs have told me, as they wait for a resolution to the U.S. Europeans wait for a resolution to financial woes from the south affecting the north, and in a safe, sane Nordic country, Norway, fear rises from a seemingly insane terrorist shooting that cost nearly a hundred lives.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. Carl Icahn is at it again.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 14, 2018
After all, how many senior business executives would relish the opportunity to inform — frequently alone — the company’s CEO that his or her strategy is failing? In other words, during periods of great stress, our best leaders rely on sound tradecraft as their safe harbor.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2017
The law too often gives employers a safe harbor. Eventually Fowler quit, but her blog recounting the experience went viral, and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick launched an “urgent investigation” into her allegations. The company subsequently fired over 20 employees.
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