N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 317

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

"A fiduciary would offer low-volatility funds and encourage investors to stay the course," he said. It drives hard work, innovation, and the success of the capitalist system. You can make a lot of money in finance doing things that are bound blow up in someone's face a few years down the road.

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Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 296

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2. Continuous Learning Stagnancy, no matter what the industry, is never an option.

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Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Google, of course, is hardly the only digital juggernaut supersaturated in an embarrassment of informational riches. 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.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. You make an excellent case for cultural innovation and leadership. link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. As always I appreciate your thoughts. Thanks Mark.

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 305

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We need to respond urgently, and the choices before us range from dramatic course correction on one extreme, to facing "overshoot-and-collapse" on the other. Over the past few decades, countless approaches to course correction have been advanced. The Heart of the Problem.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. ” Of course, being too adaptive can also hurt tactical performance.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 419

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

To mainstream economists the Glass-Steagall Act that separated the banking and securities industries looked like a competition-restricting, innovation-damping anachronism. It is good, and it piqued my interest in what Wilmers had been writing over the course of the financial crisis.

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Banking Crisis Letter Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Stellar recruitment is vital, of course, but it can be easy for an HR organization to myopically focus on delivering those services in their efforts to serve leaders and be a strategic partner. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The focus of people using a resources frame to understand sustainability is often on waste reduction and technological innovation. How can innovative thinkers break out of the “extract, make, buy, throw away” paradigm of modern consumerism? The Design Frame. The Moral Frame.

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Morale EPS Supply Chain Politics 8

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Years later, it took on bigger players by introducing new innovative packaging to the market, and subsequently carving out a double-digit share when few thought it could be done. It made sense, because we looked at the competition as our well-financed enemy, and so there was no way we could win at the spending war,” says Bell. “So

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