N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

However when a situation can be seen through the lens of difference, and a position is simply a matter of opinion not a totalitarian statement of fact, then cooperation and compromise is possible.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

The pay of top managers has risen faster than those of other star earners. Top management compensation packages guarantee a high level of pay, but are often only weakly linked to the performance of the firm relative to its industry competitors. In other words, these managers are rewarded less for outperforming their competitors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. Because the effort is still in the early stages, the parties are not ready to be identified.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Disclosure: Microsoft is a TCS client.). Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

For example, Susan Fowler’s 2017 blog about Uber detailed not only her recollections of being repeatedly harassed, but what she described as a “game-of-thrones” environment, in which managers sought to one-up and sabotage colleagues to get ahead. rogue traders in finance).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. Driven by economies of scale, container ship size has been increasing for decades, with the largest ships now costing roughly $200 million.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

By parallel, managers themselves might similarly benefit from "reverse-engineering" the criticism of not only outsiders but of their own colleagues: considering both parties as their benefactors on the road to greater performance. Keep the low-cost strategy but seek alternative ways for supporting it.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2018

The ones that manage to escape are discount chains —such as T. That’s why P&G has been restructuring for 20 years “ without much to show for it ,” according to one former finance manager. The 180-year-old house of brands hasn’t managed to survive this long without making bold steps in the past.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

The elite global technology firms typically offer better solutions at zero cost. And when Facebook makes it possible for merchants to reach millions of potential customers at no cost without the typical marketplace subscriptions or commissions, traditional e-commerce begins to fade. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Risk management processes don't — but they should. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk. Researchers also observed increased cooperation and effort among individual players. The gamers are credited in the paper for their role.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

For instance, midlevel managers may primarily affect their teams, but C-suite leaders can be expected to influence the majority of the organization. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2013

Yet corporate top management invariably tries hard to force each unit into an overarching strategy. These four divisions set their own strategy — e.g. the business strategy for engineering services, the strategy for elevators, et cetera — and have their own management teams and P&L.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

However, contrary to what is widely believed, this was not the key factor in bringing about the decline in unit labor costs. Yet it seems as if Germany has managed to get ahead on this very issues, largely by applying a much more fine-tuned and open-minded level of cooperation between unions, employers, and the government.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Second, millennials should vote with their wallets and demand that retail banks, wealth managers, and advisory firms provide a suite of financial products that range across the risk/return/impact triangle. Wealth management firms acknowledge that they are not yet positioned to give impact investing equal footing to conventional investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015. increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

Last week, the Tata Group , producers of the Tata Nano car , announced the launch of an ultra low-cost, flat-pack house designed for rural India. The team, encouraged by senior management, is now working on a pilot of their design. We also believe cooperation is necessary. We received exactly 300 entries!)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

His “rogue software engineers” echo executive whines a few years back about “rogue traders” at UBS and JPMorgan that cost those companies billions. When bad management basically subsidizes bad actors, that’s bad news. Oh those rogues! Are they authentically that clever? Always look to the leadership.

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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. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Although many upper-level managers don't do these things enough, by far and away the single-most shirked responsibility of executives is holding people accountable. It holds up for C-level executives compared to directors and middle managers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But the advent of Big Data, sophisticated modeling techniques, and robust algorithms are opening a door to cooperation and opportunities that have never been possible before. But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. Protect and manage reputations.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Under Chancellor Angela Merkel, Germany has occasionally been willing to bear a disproportionate burden of the costs of crisis management. Franco-German cooperation can still be a powerful magnetic force in the EU and a bilateral Franco-German bargain can often provide a template for a larger Union agreement.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

It’s no longer the domain of tech companies, as industries from manufacturing to finance are entering a tech-driven phase. Transform your workforce from a team of individuals who wait for orders to a cooperative force that acts proactively to make decisions. Take inventory management, for example. Change begins at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We, in fact, are living in an era of Peak Globalization as the costs and benefits of globalization begin to diverge according to country, class, and constituency. Young Germans identify far less as European than their parents and are far less willing to should the burdens of financing a Europe with their tax dollars.

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