N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors. Want to find out?

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 366

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

The word no ends discussions, stifles creativity, kills innovation, impedes learning, and gates initiative. Let me ask you a few simple questions: How do you feel when you’re told no? Moreover, when those conversations do occur they tend to be focused on admonishment rather than teachable moments.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It is the vision that defines the end game, and the mission is the road map that will take you there.

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Blog Mission Statement Tactics Objective 395

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When a company is content with being merely mediocre it may survive but it will never do extremely well. The company must have an emphasis on high standards, a desire to create and give value to customers, accountability to the employers and to your customers, and the drive to learn. Finance charges are negotiated.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. These are rich questions that do not yield to simple analysis.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2017

The employee – sometimes after a crisis of confidence – reports their boss and ultimately triumphs. They stand at the end credits, a paragon of virtue and Doing The Right Thing. Your career is on the line; the personal finances of your family are on the line. Downside : You could be affected by what they are doing.

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Report Career Learning-by-Doing Document 57

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. Putting political agendas and peer pressure aside (as great leaders do), leaders should not make their choices based upon public opinion. How sad is this? Are these extreme statements?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. 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.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Culture relates to what “should” I do, and not to what “can” I do. I’m also hoping that I had something to do with them. I spent a dozen years there — a tenure that overlapped with Dudley’s — went on to work at several other firms, and then, after the financial crisis, decided to go back to school.

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Banking Ethics Long-term Hedge 11

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. So, what exactly does this mean in practice?

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds. It is strange.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. People decry the scandals and rest assured that such doings are not happening in their companies. Each branch has its proper responsibility and should learn to interface with the others. How do we cope in the new environment?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

How about a discussion on what leaders can do to inspire cultural innovation. What do leaders dop to provide a safe environment for people to explore, test, try, fail, learn, review, try again etc. Sounds like an interesting event and line up. How should leaders behave to suppress this natural behaviour ?

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. Habecker “Doing the same thing over and over, yet expecting different results, is the definition of crazy.&# - Unknown “Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. Serves people.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Why then do so many CEOs appear to have a bad attitude? What do you reflect, and what do people see in you? Do you tend to have a pessimistic outlook on things ? Do people seek your input, advice, and counsel ? Do you have difficulty attracting and retaining tier-one executive talent ? If not, why not?

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. Vulture capitalism ," as Governor Perry has suggested?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I did something interesting last night which I’d suggest you do as well….I Do you see the difference yet between politicians and statesmen? mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician.

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