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Personal Finance Management: What It Means Before And After You Retire

Strategy Driven

Managing personal finances is one of the critical tasks that every adult must consider. Without effective management of what you have, or what you might have, you’ll always be struggling to make the ends meet. However, it is noteworthy that personal finance management is not the same for everyone.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research published in Harvard Business Review’s 2016 State of Leadership Development Study, indicated that only about 33% of Line-of-Business respondents said that they have become much more effective as managers after taking part in development programs. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people. Well, most people were already around 150 before social media arrived.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? Did the rating agencies understand that the acceleration of debt maturities brought on by a downgrade could cause a bankruptcy? Ethics Failure Finance'

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Hard Questions on Our Transition to Driverless Cars

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? Of the large markets, the U.S.,

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.”

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.