N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Did you bestow the title upon yourself simply because you had the authority to do so, or are you the right person for the job? As the founder, can you, or should you, attempt to grow with the company?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine how managing appearances can have a substantial impact on your personal brand and your success. You should manage appearances on creating a feeling of comfort and engendering confidence…not on trying to impress.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. When Google started they had the greatest focus, the simplest vision, and the least cluttered search engine.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Also worth noting is that there is certainly a difference between value engineering and arbitrary cost containment. If you try hard enough you can find an aberration in just about any rule, but in the case of design it will simply be just that…an aberration.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You can follow Seth on Twitter @ThisIsSethsBlog Alexa Rank : 4,876 Google Page Rank : 7 PostRank Leadership Score : N/A Number of Posts in last 30 days : 35 TwitterGrader Score : 100 The Management Experts : If you’re looking for a positive spin on leadership then look no further than Phil Gerbyshak.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. I am grateful for the people who served in that crisis. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For those of you that have read Out of the Crisis, Deming asks in that book: Need any country be poor? Roger also discusses the idea of statistical engineering and the difference between engineering and science. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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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

JULY 15, 2013

Enterprise IT is in crisis — no doubt about it. The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. The CIO must understand and execute on the differences among leadership, governance, and managing.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Set up a simple workflow to manage customer requests. Don’t let your engineers hack together workarounds that will need to be maintained down the road; provide real engineering solutions to the types of problems new software has. What to do. Don’t optimize for efficiency. Your goal is success. What to do.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 and the debt crises threatening Europe are just the latest evidence. Having lived in Mexico in the wake of its 1994 crisis and studied its politics , I just saw the absence of any invisible hand as a practical fact. An engineering analogy may help.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2012

How come Netflix shelled out $1 million in its much-ballyhooed recommendation-engine competition — and then never used the new algorithm? Wharton professor Peter Cappelli takes a closer look at the jobs crisis and argues that it's not just because of a weak economy. Book Review: What Money Can't Buy (Management Today).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2017

Rather than managing that complexity by delegating and decentralizing, the CEO became even more controlling. Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. I have seen this manifest itself three ways.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In 18 short months, search engine Google erased 85 percent of the market cap of the top GPS companies after launching its mobile maps app. This represents a major challenge to the banking sector where, in developed markets, growth and profitability are still at about half of pre-crisis levels. Competition Finance Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

Remember Long-Term Capital Management ? LTCM was founded, in 1994, by some of the best minds in finance theory, including two Nobel Prize winners. After the Russian financial crisis in 1998, LTCM imploded and lost $4.6 No matter how advanced technology is, it needs human partners to enhance competitive advantage.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The best paid jobs of 2019 are in healthcare, information technology, data analytics, finance, engineering, and law ( see infographic below ). Sal Khan, president of financial search at Howard-Sloan Search, agrees that data analytics—the analysis and management of data— is one of the fastest-growing sectors.

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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. Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

How should you address a mid-career crisis? Joel Hendley, the Director of Engineering, North America, for Liferay, the California-based software company, speaks from personal experience when he says that “making a significant change” is not always the answer to “weathering mid-career anxiety” and discontent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The reasoning, backed by several respected scholars, is that leverage was a leading cause of the financial crisis. The design engineers kept taking incremental risks that they thought were acceptable and normalized them — until the disaster. Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis. Over the summer, U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Certainly the pandemic has spurred innovation and we’re delighted to see the adoption of some digital health solutions at a faster pace,” says Leslie Harris, Managing Director of EIT Health UK-Ireland. It’s a process that has almost vanished during the pandemic. “Much of that is by sheer necessity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

While R&D spending is an imperfect proxy for innovation investment, this data should give us pause when we hear claims that American innovation is in crisis because corporate investors are unwilling to invest in the future, or because activist investors demand short-term results. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. A company that misses one generation may find it hard to catch up, especially if it has also lost internal process engineering know-how.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

When you're doing a start-up or a book or a symphony or a painting or a legal brief or whatever, or are in a crisis at work, you may have to decide to do less in other areas. Trying to re-engineer an entire life in a few short years down the home stretch is a tough row to hoe.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target. Long road ahead.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Unfavorable demographics, with the aging of the baby boomers and low birth rates, also represents an economic time bomb for countries whose public retirement systems rely on current contributions to finance current pension obligations. “My brother was an engineer in geophysics. Recognizing qualifications.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. If you don’t engineer everything around the client, your client relationships will vanish before your very eyes. A sales person is trying to sell them something.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

How can today’s leaders manage this new normal? The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S. Fast forward to the next global financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs?

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