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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

Boards are crucial in guiding and overseeing critical strategic decisions, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and driving overall organizational performance. This involves conducting thorough research and gathering information about the organization’s industry, market, and internal dynamics.

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Why You Should Have (at Least) Two Careers

Harvard Business Review

Taken together, all of us establish a “consensus” view on the markets. Not restricted by the compliance department of a bank, he was able to give an unbridled perspective to my client, who was most appreciative. ” In other words, they didn’t want to hear the groupthink. My client got a new idea.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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Marketing Success | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Those of you familiar with this blog know that I’m generally a strong marketing advocate. That said, my typical pro-marketing position assumes that certain key fundamentals are in place to insure that the lunatics don’t somehow become in charge of the asylum.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

And finally, the blockchain spreadsheet has a mechanism—referred to as a consensus algorithm—that determines what is placed in the spreadsheet by mutual agreement among its users. Does your organization have the “market power” to implement the scenario? Third, the spreadsheet is shared among multiple parties.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

My sense is that a consensus emerged from the hearings that Apple was not doing anything illegal. Claims of tax evasion are much more significant as they cross the line, and it appears that a consensus emerged that this was not the case with Apple. Cook testified that the company paid "all the taxes we owe — every single dollar."

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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business Review

Shareholders have benefited greatly from bigger product markets, lower production costs, and the judicious use of head office domiciles to reduce tax bills. Since 1990, the market capitalization of multinational corporations has grown at more than three times the average rate of listed companies around the world, our research shows.