N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course. So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. One CFO said that her valuation should be considered on a per idea basis instead of a per earnings multiple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). Figure out the definitions. Understand both sides of risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. Process champions must have them ready for the day when the CEO or CFO effectively says, "Show me the money.".

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. And an innovative manufacturing company offered her a job as head of “strategic partnerships.” Here’s a case example.

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Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. Arguments for Strategic Cash. It can: Save Taxes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

What they don’t do well enough is reinvent and innovate. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. So if the CEO isn’t someone who can innovate, then who should?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea. The organization would match these contributions, turning teachers into fundraisers.

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Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The question is how to equip employees with the skills to handle complexities such as creating innovative solutions to emergent problems, understanding new markets, and pushing back on the "status quo." At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO. However, the core skills they need are different.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me. “We kept trying.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. More >>.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. That positive, innovative approach is not only far more likely to lead you to a beneficial solution, but also to a place of trust.

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Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance. In one word: No.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

People often ask me why it's so hard for big companies to be innovative. But that doesn't mean innovation can't happen, even in the biggest, most entrenched firm. By establishing the Innovation Office , and empowering me with resources to run it, he sent a crucial signal to the organization that innovation is on top of his agenda.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

His money would allow her to pursue a new, perhaps more comfortable, growth strategy, directly managing 10 new centers instead of franchising them as she'd done with 11 of the 12 existing locations. This business works only if the Calidad de Vida brand stands for quality, innovative care — across the board. Angelic Temptations.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

The gurus have written detailed descriptions of how companies should establish the process owners, process councils, and other pieces of a formal process governance structure to manage their six to 10 core, cross-functional processes. These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs. from 2004 to 2007.

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