N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I believe it was Cyrus the Great who said “diversity in counsel, unity in command” meaning that good leaders seek the counsel of others, but maintain command control over the final decision. Another aspect that needs to be factored into the decisioning process is the source of the input. What would happen if no decision is made?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

While we are surrounded by a wave of new disruptive technologies and apps, HR still hasn’t improved how it evaluates the prospective workforce. A recent study in the UK, for instance, shows that 3 out of 4 judges, 2 out of 3 doctors, 3 out of 4 finance directors, and 1 out of 2 chief executives come from fairly well-off families.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These two trends may seem separate—or, some people believe, incompatible—but together I believe they have the power to improve finance’s role in the world. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success. Index funds can be a force for sustainable capitalism.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Add in more diverse identities and the disparity becomes even more apparent. Low diversity could be a result of bias in hiring, unfair recruiting criteria, insufficient diversity in recruitment sources, etc. Equitable workplace strategies for fair compensation involve a diverse workforce as well.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Those conditions elevated the work of the finance function to the point that, today, the CFO helps to set the course of business, advancing an organization’s growth and improving its competitive position by identifying and resolving key financial constraints. Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2018

Because a CEO often effectively controls the director selection process, he will tend to choose directors who are unlikely to oppose him, and who are unlikely to provide the diverse perspectives necessary to maximize firm value. Could technology help? Nonetheless, boards remain highly imperfect.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Success requires getting a diverse group of managers to coalesce around change—breaking down barriers across a wide phalanx of IT, business-lines, analytics, and training experts. The scale and scope of this adoption effort—which involves formal training, coaching, and metrics—shouldn’t be downplayed.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income. Cold" metrics of monetary return are giving way to "warm" metrics of non-monetary return such as happiness, satisfaction, and influence.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

On the one hand, new technologies have enabled neuroscience to discover that men and women tend to be wired differently in ways that incline men — can it be? On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide. Men on the job must feel besieged.

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Bottom-up Metrics Construction Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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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. Wall Street began charging a “conglomerate discount,” saying that diverse operations were hard to analyze with confidence. GE might be first to capitalize on this.

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Engineering Learning Curve Fixed Costs Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

To be successful and cost-effective in holistically addressing children’s total wellness will require a large team of non-medical personnel with diverse training and skills to work with children and their parents. Health information and other technology. Technologies hold promise for remote monitoring and intervention.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

Currently, impact can mean anything from venture investments in new health technologies to microfinance loans in Peru; from affordable housing in the US to renewable energy in India; from social impact bonds to private equity funds that create jobs.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 10, 2019

It’s a situation that the EU’s European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) is hoping to improve after it was awarded a 25% increase in its budget by the European Commission, in part to address the east-west entrepreneurial divide. They also examine the strength of the innovation ecosystems in various countries.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Quantity of content produced should never be a metric - it is quality that should override. Stay on top of all technological advances pertaining to marketing. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing. Plus, you must measure success using quality metrics and realistic expectations.

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