Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

While our power base is growing it is vital to have our wisdom keep up with our positions of authority. At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. This beginning part is about the women who have come before us, paved the way so we could move faster and with more assurance.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

So unlike a lot of sales positions, you TRULY make as much money (to a point) as you’d like. Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world. These pay $100K-$250K starting off.

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Chris Brady

MAY 27, 2010

But even though these incredible enablers of positive change abound, there is an all-too common disease that thwarts all the greatest efforts toward lasting self-improvement, and it is called: Improvement Deficiency Syndrome (IDS). persistent resistance to a positive attitude 2. persistent resistance to a positive attitude 2.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

But if culture is developed outside of strategy, if it’s not driven by strategy, then said culture can become a very dangerous intoxicant. It is something you're thinking about and planning for, therefore it is part of the overall strategy being developed. Culture is important – it is very important. What say you?

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Chris Brady

JANUARY 12, 2011

It is the resistance they provide which builds the muscle - as long as the possessor of the muscles is willing to work against that resistance. As long as we are willing to strive against the "others" we will be made better by their sorry position in life. Therein lies the key. Thank you once again for your wisdom.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. “Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc.

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Chris Brady

MARCH 2, 2010

may develop a network of connections and relationships that will prove valuable later     4. may develop a network of connections and relationships that will prove valuable later     4.  I really enjoyed my time with men so committed to the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. Case in point…have you ever witnessed an employee throw a fit of rage and resign their position in the heat of the moment?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Organizations are increasingly hiring people into novel positions, but often struggle to support these new roles. Our research found that organizations vary in how tightly they structure new positions, but they fall into one of three configurations: too tight, too loose, or just right. finance, mineral processing, geology).

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Think About Finances. You’ll be able to reap the benefit of their years in the business, and the advice of someone who’s been in the same position as you in the past. Some of the most successful businessmen in recent history have developed on the advice of a mentor. Photo courtesy of Pixabay.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. Great leaders are like a sponge when it comes to the acquisition of knowledge, the development of new skill sets, and the constant refinement of existing competencies.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would strongly suggest reading two previous posts: “ Shut-up and Listen &# and “ Stop Selling and Add Value “ as support for these positions. Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2015

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. It’s stated mission is to “focus on the development of infrastructure and other productive sectors in Asia.” billion of subscribed capital) or the Asian Development Bank ($162.8

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

And it explains why management-led organizations that have not embraced physician input have run into resistance. physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. But that’s how physicians see it.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Of course, they may end up neither, but Wasserman’s research finds they seldom end up both: The “rich” options enable the company to become more valuable but sideline the founder by taking away the CEO position and control over major decisions. Four out of five founder-CEOs I studied resisted the [appointment of a new CEO], too.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

It faced a 21% prime rate on its floating debt, falling oil prices, and recession in the developed countries. On August 13, 1982, when Mexican Finance Minister Silva Herzog met with officials of the U.S. Mexico was asked to develop an economic adjustment program in exchange for a "jumbo loan" put together by the banks, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Perpetuation requires training to be continually upgraded to anticipate future needs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. Since the skills for developing power projects were not existent in the country, we had to bring much of this talent in from the outside.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Ackman''s short-selling campaign against vitamin distributor Herbalife has blown up in his face, with the company''s stock up more than 75% since he unveiled his position last December and some of his most prominent hedge fund competitors profiting from his misery. Boards Competition Finance' Or at least the market''s.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. million in financing for a new 50,000-square-foot bakery, which opened in 2008. The inability to find, develop, and keep key people during periods of rapid growth triggers many an operational breakdown.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Should you quit right away, or try to make the position work for you? A good job will have many positive things and a few things that bother you,” says Clark. Look for development elsewhere. Developing a personal network within the company is one of the smartest things you can do if you want to stay but in a new role.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Joseph Weintraub, a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College and coauthor of the book, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business , agrees: "We need to constantly look for opportunities to stretch ourselves in ways that may not always feel comfortable at first. Know how you learn best. "Too

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

When they voiced concerns about the business and organizational impact of her recommendations, she dismissed them as "old school" and resistant to change. But, anxious for a promotion to the executive level, she took a position with a key competitor.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

On the positive side, Greece has tidied up its balance sheet (at least the privately held debt), and nearly balanced its budget, excluding interest payments. True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

A coalition with a local employer has been formed, but it is taking time to develop an implementable model of something truly new. Dominant providers leverage their market position to raise prices independently of cost or quality. Unions, which now represent a tiny share of American workers, resist to the extent they can.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The first is breakdown , where early experiments fade in the face of resistance. Levi Strauss, intriguingly, has used biomimetic techniques in developing new production techniques for jeans. Breakthrough Finance. Change must now come from business itself. Few companies' profits could withstand such a shock.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Germany’s failure to consult on migration policy resulted in a number of other EU member states resisting demands to follow its stance during the refugee crisis. This coalition would include Germany and the eight northern European member states whose finance ministers began to meet in early 2018 to discuss reforming the Eurozone.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

These silos prevent organizations from understanding the customers’ expectations at critical moments, and cultural resistance makes it tough to get the collaboration needed to solve the problem. But who is going to break down silos, connect the dots of the customer experience, and drive its improvement?

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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. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. This has long seemed intuitively true to us.

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