N2Growth Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. You’re not managing your energy well. You must concentrate on managing your energy because there are so many demands on your time, that you can’t meet them all. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Others do not.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 17, 2015
In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. born BP veteran Bob Dudley as CEO.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 18, 2014
BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
A recent Washington Post investigation titled “The big problem for Uber now: Attracting talent” detailed the roots of this problem throughout the company and at the top, where 13 of the top 20 management positions remain empty, including the positions of COO and CFO.
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. Why would an IPO be so bad? She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. But Jorge clearly needed further coaching.
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. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.
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