N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

When asked how he transformed a lack-luster, institutional, global corporate giant into a dynamic culture focused on innovation and growth, Welch responded by saying; “My job is to put the best people on the biggest opportunities and the best allocation of dollars in the right places. Original post by leadershipcoach [.]

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I wasn’t getting the answers I wanted from the one person I was talking with – he kept saying “no” – so I politely ended the call. Last week I called my cell phone provider to modify the service, cancel a line, add a data line, etc.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Recently, she’s been spotted in the company of politicians and Presidential candidates creating speculation that she may leave the corporate world for a stint in the political world. That remains to be seen, but one thing seems certain – Meg Whitman will undoubtedly be successful in any endeavor she pursues in the future.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bhushan Sethi, Global People & Org People Co-leader at PwC, explains why focusing on your employees’ wellbeing can help your firm recover faster. They fret over the upcoming election and its potential impact on their families and finances. Productivity is key to recovery, but the risk of anxiety and burnout has never been higher.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Evidence of de-globalization — think Brexit and other attacks on international interdependence — is everywhere. Boards of directors of global corporations will increasingly face strategic choices and capital allocation decisions framed by mounting geo-political risks. at the forefront.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Any such argument in my opinion is rooted either in flawed business logic or politically correct rhetoric (usually one in the same). Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Strong yet Others are from books, films and politics. I believe we can stand on the shoulders of the past by exploring the legacy of the women who held out a hand when the terrain was rocky, gave us courage when it looked hopeless, encouraged us to keep on keeping on no matter what. The others can get a silent salute from the heart.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Example 1: During the 2004 election season, I connected with a new friend through a grassroots Asian Pacific Islander political group. I connected again with him on Facebook through the online version of that same political group, and I let him know what I do for a living. Recently, his company needed a web designer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

The enormity of the challenges confronting pension funds — including substantial deficits, a tumultuous global economy, and a low-return environment — means that they need to be able to focus on maximizing investment returns without distraction. Strong governance. Deft, pre-emptive management.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

Among the acute political risks facing the world this year, the nuclear threats from Iran and North Korea are serious, no doubt, but the behavior of the 20 major economic powers scare us more: these countries can no longer agree on how the global economy should function. "Oh, Oh, come on," you might say.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As currencies and stock markets have tumbled in emerging markets, the business media has been dominated by cries of an “Emerging-Markets Crisis.” The media uses “emerging-markets crisis” as shorthand, but recent market turmoil was actually about relatively few countries.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

Thanks to Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard University and his 1997 landmark book, The Innovator’s Dilemma , we have a new way of understanding the life cycle of companies and why some market leaders maintain their dominant position and other one-time market leaders disappear. GLOBAL CONSULTING & DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2011

I'd bet, given recent events in the markets, like many, you'd like to get to the bottom of what the heck is really going on here. I suggested, instead: a historic, generational crisis — not just a crash, but a titanic reconfiguration of the global economy. It's been a scary couple of days. What kind of banking crisis is this?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Anything other than this fosters unhealthy dependencies that bring out the worst in people and not the best they have to offer. “Diversity&# has never been an issue for me simply because I don’t make business decisions based upon social mandates or politically correct thinking. of virtually every diversity segment.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Too few businesses have sought to make a systemic approach to public policy an important dimension of their global posture. Unfortunately, engaging in the necessary sophisticated work across varying political cultures is not a natural act for many companies. The stakes are very high. A needed a pproach.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. Still others hope to create market barriers for global companies — a form of digital protectionism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The answer is that we have too much of both and they threaten the nascent global recovery. Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. Setting aside the issues of political legitimacy this raises in democracies, high and sustained levels of inequality are bad for long-run growth.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

To me, that highlights the importance of reading, watching, listening and generally paying attention to what’s happening, not only locally, but also globally. I think too that in order to be alert to those events that create the need or provide the invitation for change, a leader must be open to new information all of the time.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

They all agreed that market capitalism was the source of astonishing economic growth and prosperity around the world. “All this is fine if you don’t have a very severe economic slowdown…the problem we will see is that the financing they are getting is then sold together with these collateralized debt deals.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

Globalization need be seen not as an inexorable fact of life but rather as a challenge and an opportunity that must be carefully controlled politically. They have relatively little to say about the political side of the changes they seek. The problem is that nobody's ever really been able to answer which shareholders, when?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2014

There is a general consensus among economic analysts and commentators that the changes are merely cosmetic — they certainly do not affect the daily lives of most average Nigerians, and their timing might be politically motivated given the upcoming 2015 elections which are expected to be highly contested. Global business'

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Place ad in an unusual venue, attend a political events, support a new cultural organization, or even be friendly at the Health Club.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

Yet Russia remains an important part of most Western multinationals’ emerging markets portfolios. This environment is altering how multinational firms operate in the country and market their products. This has been beneficial for some Russian industries but has reduced market access for foreign firms.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Great One's well-known words are often repeated in corporate corridors during discussions about understanding market trends. In spite of these realities, clarity can be achieved and cultural, socio-economic, and political differences mitigated by analyzing needs and aspirations of both individuals and groups.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Chinese companies are relatively new to the M&A game, governments in many target markets are quick to detect a political agenda, Chinese companies sometimes struggle to obtain financing or face unexpected political opposition at home, and many acquiring Chinese firms operate in particularly dynamic — and volatile — global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2011

This time China is set to take center stage as it begins the inevitable transformation from being the developing world's biggest market for FDI to becoming a major source of foreign capital. Ordinarily, countries are price takers internationally: even if they distort their home markets, they will not affect world prices.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Some people are qualified on paper, but for political, historical, or personality reasons can’t really succeed on a given team or in a particular job. A good coach can provide an outside perspective on both of these issues, because they’re not motivated by any politics or agendas. Her boss was very supportive of the change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

But as information trickles out about how bad the repayment situation in AP is, a plausible global contagion scenario is emerging. In a recent paper, Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Conning explain the role of debt and equity financing in the microfinance industry. But just rescheduling debt payments may not be enough.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. Massive layoffs ensued, and the labor market turned flexible far too rapidly, with many formerly middle-class workers losing permanent contracts and reliable salaries. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies. Case Examples: Steel and Paper.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

At the same time the global middle class will swell by about the same number. But it’s as much about regional politics as anything. The problem, he said, is largely one of financing. But we’re not small anymore — not at all. Now recognize that 2 billion more people will move to cities over the next generation.

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