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

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

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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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

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. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

How can AI and future technology aid, rather than impair, inclusion? Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. You can find all the info here. Catch up here.

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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

APRIL 2, 2010

With each major advancement in technology, communications, or business practice we find ourselves yet again at this all too familiar precipice. 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.

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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

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. An organization's purpose often changes over time as advances in technology, changes in customer demands/preferences, etc. impact the competitive arena.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

In short, the health of American small businesses depends significantly on credit. Small businesses are also instrumental to our innovation economy; small firms produce 13 times more patents per employee than larger firms and employ more than 40% of high technology workers in America. job growth and economic security. small businesses.

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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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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. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2020

Similarly, some retailers have begun experimenting with Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which allows customers to collect and pay for items without requiring a checkout service. Recent research from Columbia Business School provides a degree of optimism that the coronavirus crisis can produce some gains for society.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Do you ever wonder how the term “Politically Correct&# evolved from an obscure catch-phrase that was once used to label those who would not take a controversial position to the dominant mind-set of the day in our society? The first step in solving the problem is to deal in whole truths, not untruths or partial truths.

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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

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Increasing inequality of income and wealth has occurred across the developed world for the past 30 years, with the majority of the gains from technology, globalization and deregulation accruing to a small minority in each country.

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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. dollars.

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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. And it’s not just short-term investors that like buybacks and dividends. The case of Apple is an instructive, if extreme, example.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. But, when the crisis is over, we go back to the status quo.

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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

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us. But rules affect profits and long-term sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. In academic terms, we would put it this way: extrinsic motivation causes people to distort the truth regarding goal attainment.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. It is as plain as day that women are equally qualified to lead in terms of skill and talent, yet we capture far fewer job slots at the top. The Promotion Paradox.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. The "Asian Contagion" currency crisis that depressed Thailand, Indonesian, South Korean and other currencies by as much as 70% was not yet over. Treasury, was describing the U.S.

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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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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. The Samsung Economic Research Institute ( [link] ) conducted a study and the results match up with yours in terms of the number of books CEOs read each month.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

His horizon was exceedingly long-term. The late 1940s were a tough time for the fledgling electronic equipment maker that would eventually become one of the America’s best-known technology companies. The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Fast forward to the next global financial crisis.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ve compiled a short list of 5 things you thought you already knew about leadership, but may not be putting into practice. Most articles speak on team work but when dealing with concept of leadership they speak only in terms of individual , But yours for the first time is thought provoking.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Ten years on from the financial crisis, stock markets are regularly reaching new highs and volatility levels new lows. Today, we face the risk that investors, traders, and regulators are failing to understand the extent to which technological progress is — or more precisely is not — reducing financial uncertainty.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Don’t let your intellect stand in your way, but rather use it as an asset to develop those around you to their full potential thereby increasing your chances for long-term success. It is not an excuse to be lazy, arrogant, mean-spirited or delusional. Is your experience similar to, or different than what I’ve shared above?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It missed the crisis. The IMF missed the crisis. I finally did pay a visit to his office in D.C.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2012

The Ex-Im Bank was formed in the 1930s to help finance U.S. Today, it provides financing support to exporters or to their customers overseas, when, per its charter, private credit is not readily available (locomotives to Kazakhstan, medical supplies to Viet Nam). In 2011, according to Bank numbers, it used $32 billion to finance U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. The bad news is that lots of leaders or companies are in crisis mode when they call for a consultant or coach, so they don’t really have the time necessary to really get to know the person they are hiring.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. I wonder if we'll see a difference in terms of how younger generations approach perfectionism & failure, given digital fluency. Have you seen any trends there?

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