N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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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. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the lowest number since 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. As I show in my book, successful managers, like those engineering the turnarounds at IBM and Deere and Co., How could a high share price possibly be a bad thing? And when the share price declines, all hell breaks loose. BL: Not really.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Leadership. Brescoll and her team looked at two other traditionally male jobs with considerable power – the CEO of an engineering firm and the chief judge of a state supreme court. In this leadership role, a role often played by women, men paid a price for showing poor judgment. Further Reading. Magazine Article.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

In response to the rapid advance of cloud computing, IBM’s software engineering groups embraced the Agile development method – with teams focused on incremental delivery of new capabilities every few weeks or months. To the engineers, the design thinking process seemed like a return to the Waterfall method. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Here’s the cold hard truth…if you cheat your family to invest into your career, you and your loved ones will pay a very heavy price.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales. What is their longevity?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

Similarly, Apoorva Mehta, a former Amazon engineer and founder of Instacart, now valued at $2 billion, tried up to 20 different business models that failed before hitting the right one. Financed by VC firms. billion in a single round of equity financing, the largest private fundraising round for a VC-backed startup ever.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. One example is Ross Stores: It created an innovative off-price fashion retail format in 1982, which led to its IPO in 1985.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Posted on August 20th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Rants , Talent Management By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth My question is this: Is your intellect an asset or liability? Winning an argument isn’t particularly difficult, but it may come at a very expensive price.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Based on their stock prices on July 6, 2017 , Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook were the five most valuable companies in the world. To stay ahead, these countries need to keep their innovation engines in top gear and generate new demand, failing which they risk stalling out. Digital players wield outsize market power.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom. As a result, Juniper’s stock price has been going nowhere. Finance Tech industry Technology'

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