N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. The tips mentioned above will help you build a formidable organization, make better use of your time, and insure operational performance gains across the enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The Covid-19 crisis has caused widespread disruption, but it has also created opportunities. Technology has become increasingly critical for businesses in recent years, and it offers company bosses the chance to streamline and speed up operations, reduce the risk of errors and introduce cost-effective ways of working.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate. I wanted to put this question out there: Can humility be learned? Greenleaf in 1970.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

While you might not detect brand taints associated with overexposure in the short-term, this principle holds true across most genres over time. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. will go into decline.

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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. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Long-term experience will either validate or invalidate first impressions.That said, it's the first impression that buys you the privilege of having the chance to be in the game to begin with. I believe that first impressions do matter but just in the short time. Thanks for highlighting that thought in your comment.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

They could not be more wrong - I’m here to tell you that strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive terms. They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated and they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Business is fluid, dynamic and ever evolving, which means that static advice is at best short lived, but most times is simply incongruous with the very nature of business itself. Their core is the design and the idea, the operating system, plus the network environment such as iTunes. But Apple does not manufacture them.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. Here's the short version: "A person can't be best friends with 2,000 people. link] Allan W. link] Allan W.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. " It's not unusual for us to have short discussions that end with me saying I think we should do this, any problems you can think of? I work with a small group of leaders. That's consensus.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Being able to get what your business needs in terms of new equipment is just one challenge that you have to find a way to face up to and if you can learn from others that have been there before you it could give you the vision to succeed. You might also want to look at arrange equipment finance to help fund your growth plans.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. A firm’s cultural capital is a type of asset that impacts what a firm produces and how it operates. naqiewei/Getty Images.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Many businesses have shut down, with many more having to drastically alter their operations to support social distancing or new patterns of consumer behavior. Within our own network, we’ve been hearing how the crisis has expediated the process of accessing the NHS and broader healthcare market for some EIT Health supported start-ups.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

Along with explaining in clear if caustic terms how financial markets work, the book prefigures almost every criticism of the financial system that's been levied since the crisis of 2008. I also started thinking that, with a little updating, Wall Street would make for a great introductory finance textbook. It's brilliant.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. A large exposure to AP with its abysmal repayment rates is an existential crisis for MFIs in India. Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Listen here to learn more about what Shootman calls the “digital work crisis.” Alex, you use a term, digital work crisis, to describe what’s going on in our workplaces today. What do you mean by that term? And that’s really the source of this digital work crisis. Angelia Herrin, HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

The difference is that the United States has its own money , the dollar, while Spain operates on foreign money , the euro. Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Each ended in crisis. The resulting crisis echoes those in Chile, Mexico, and Argentina. In 2011, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After weeks of media frenzy around the Greek election and the new government’s once-ambitious plans to renegotiate with the Eurozone over its debt crisis , the searchlights of publicity are shifting. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. Most probably another crisis, small or large. This looks unlikely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis and numerous corporate scandals, a director now confronts not only complex oversight accountability, but also personal risk and liability. Poor strategic alignment also hampers a board's ability to prioritize issues and set their near-term agendas.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

In short, he became the unintended victim trapped by what the Financial Times called “byzantine organizational politics.” At the other end of this dimension is the broader context, where politics operates at the organizational level. Political dynamics start with the individual player and their political skills.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

Some institutions, such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board , are stand-alone legal entities with an independent board and a requirement to operate at arm’s length from government. Autonomy for pension institutions starts with a strong governance framework.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. In contrast, several longer-term structural factors are contributing to the dearth of small business lending.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

Not only has business investment in R&D been outpacing economic growth in recent years (2012 is the most recent year available), but it’s also outpacing longer term trends. That exceeds its operating income of $52.5 And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Although he came from a family of short-lived men, he had an iron constitution and weathered many illnesses that would have killed a less robust man. Washington ran his own spy network during the war and was often the only one privy to the full scope of secret operations against the British. He lived to the age of 67.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk. At a meeting on April 8, Drew assured Dimon and the operating committee of JPMorgan that the trades were being well managed and would work out.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

He was constantly cautioning about short-term hires, and believed that you shouldn’t hire anyone whom you couldn’t keep and develop over the long haul. I would encourage you to read a previous post on “ Workforce Reduction.&#

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

” Specific traits are essential to women’s success and in short supply. The recognition by a boss or mentor was key to sparking long-term ambition in many of the women. ” Backgrounds in STEM, business, finance, or economics are a launchpad for female CEOs. .” Articulate roles in terms that engage women.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The financial crisis is a prime example of too few people holding the reins. In short, change would happen, but at a dangerously slow pace. Breakthrough Finance. How easy is it to change a flawed economic or governance system, such as our current 1.5-planets-and-counting planets-and-counting forms of capitalism?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

You may fantasize about telling your boss to take this job and shove it, but that will only give you short-term relief and could possibly ruin your professional life. Run short experiments to test whether your current situation is unfixable. The financial crisis forced the firm to make cuts. Don't run out the door.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 1, 2010

John Baldoni : You asked us to keep our answers short so I don’t have time to delineate all my faults, but let me say one thing I work on is patience. Get it done and get it done now is a real challenge that may not set up organizations for long term success. Mike Myatt : What do you see as your greatest weakness?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

We may be able to in the short run, but not when our final stories are written. 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. One way I have thought about these issues is in terms of one's calling.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

As refugees they have the same rights and obligations — excepting only the right to vote — as the citizens of their host countries and they have much to offer in economic terms: many are highly trained and possess much-needed skills. This sends a powerful signal about Britain’s diversity and openness.

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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. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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