N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

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. Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The simple truth is that all great leaders are highly skilled in matters of delegation. The number of activities a CEO takes on can certainly vary based upon skill sets, stage of corporate maturation, and the talent level of the rest of the executive team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. Experience, while a great teacher, can nonetheless result in a very costly education that rarely occurs in a timely fashion. Great work Mike… [link] mikemyatt Hi Rob: Thanks for the kind words Rob.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. link] Posts about Interpersonal conflict and dealing with people as of January 4, 2009 — Persuasive Communication and Life Skills [.]

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors? link] Elliot Ross I’m humbled!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Then, look for venues in which you can expand your circle with connections that complement your professional life in the same fashion. Take a class, attend a seminar, learn a new skill or volunteer for a favorite cause. Ask yourself, “How do I want people to think about me?”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. I know I am still working on it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Rather than just kill something with a quick no, a good leader uses every adverse scenario as a development opportunity to help people advance their critical thinking and decisioning skills. While I understand that there are times when using no may be your only option, those times should be the exception and not the rule.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. And by using these values, we re-ran baseball history, in a very simple fashion, 10,000 times, in what is known as a Monte Carlo simulation. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Unfortunately, your typical high school curriculum doesn’t cover that subject, but we felt they needed to interact with people in a commercial fashion. I had been an engineering manager at GE, so my areas of expertise included managing projects, inventory, and finances, all of which would be helpful.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Invariably, each CEO we host recognizes two truths: Digital disruption will reshape their industry in one fashion or another and they must find a way to embrace these changes. For those companies with the skill to pull it off, it worked. Asset-light businesses are not financed with debt. It’s not a level playing field.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most workers are still grabbing extra hours the old-fashioned way — tending bar or temp work on the side — not by being digitally summoned. They realize they have a lot of skills that companies want and a lot of options. In fact … less than 1% of workers have used online platforms to arrange work in the past month.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

It’s tempting to think of distinctive capabilities as a kind of artistry performed by an elite corps of high-potential talent: the elite players work long hours and deliver unusual results, while the rest of the organization struggles along in its usual incoherent fashion. The functional model of organization dates back to the 1850s.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

A case in point is Inditex, founded in 1963 and now the biggest fashion group in the world, which has only had two CEOs succeed founder Amancio Ortega. He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition. One of those narrative fallacies relates to the most basic thing that investors care about: results. The number of funds has exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

But they should not replace all the other tools — or the skilled strategists who know where and how to use them. Integrate your digital skills with operations, marketing, and all the other kinds of functional expertise a business requires. For more than 40 years, the network developed new programs the old-fashioned way.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Modern design schools increasingly encourage this, demanding that graduates be familiar not just with a traditional creative skillset, but with ethnography, finance, coding, and a host of other competencies. Smart executives, on the other hand, know that creativity is nothing more — and nothing less — than consistent, highly skilled work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

” We would do well to begin fashioning our own blueprint aimed at this end, starting with common sense steps focused on the development of multigenerational ties. The initiative aims, among other priorities, “to build a cohesive society with inter-generational harmony.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The traditional asset-heavy corporations that used to be at the top of everybody’s most-admired lists are starting to look old-fashioned, slow-moving, and inflexible — particularly to investors. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. Thus, they have low PPE but high multiples.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. The first story relates to plain old-fashioned competition. One of those narrative fallacies relates to the most basic thing that investors care about: results. The number of funds has exploded.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Startups and established companies bring two distinct and equally integral skills to the table. Other large consumer companies are doing the same.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

And, being human, we are not always going to act in exemplary fashion. My first experience was when I was a very young manager working in a finance department and the middle aged guy working for me told me he was using me as a role model. At the time it was a shock. But as I got older I realized what he meant.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

And Icahn, like Buffett, no longer has to worry about what is probably the biggest barrier to value-investing success — clients who abandon you when value falls out of fashion. Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' As long as he gets the last laugh, of course.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

You might find it rewarding to advance the math skills of 80 students in one year, or build six desalination plants over the course of your career. For example, if you enjoy connecting with people, you could use that skill to be a psychologist or a marketer. Take on a new assignment that allows you to try out new skills.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

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. I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. To the person, the best leaders I know are prolific readers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. That doesn’t work for a host of practical reasons.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. No single leader can possess every needed attribute. Foster “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.&# - John Wayne “The true leader serves.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Ask employees for input on what skills, experience and qualities they would like to find in the new hire. When Kenneth Jennings, the CEO of Mr. Rekey Locksmith, a residential and commercial locksmith service, found out that his top finance person — we’ll call her Louise — had accepted a new job, his mind reeled.

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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. Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. True synergies across the diverse operations were often hard to see.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

During the past decade, business analytics platforms have evolved from supporting IT and finance functions to enabling business users across the enterprise. A large fashion retailer ran into this issue. But many firms find themselves struggling to take advantage of its promise.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In an uncanny fashion, the beginning of this century mirrors that of the last — the speed, scale, and disruption of globalization is generating a strong nationalist backlash. Young Germans identify far less as European than their parents and are far less willing to should the burdens of financing a Europe with their tax dollars.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

At the same time, international trade and migration have come to be seen as harmful to the low- and middle-skilled workers in advanced economies, suppressing their wages and threatening their jobs and ways of life. Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of nationalist parties across Europe are signs of this new political mood.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I would caution you against confusing speed with reckless abandon…I’m a big proponent of planning, assessment, analysis and strategy, but only if it is concluded in a timely fashion. This is a skill set that perfectionists simply don't possess. Speed is your friend…embrace it…leverage it…win with it.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

This approach is often executed in a pre-canned fashion. Consultant training directs the completion of certain skills assessments and a line of questioning that is designed to result in a predictable product; A great leader. More over to acquire leadership skills is not about one event, it is a long process.

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