N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 412

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

But CEOs serious about confronting autonomy opportunity and risk should consider four proven organizational options. The bad news: Petabytes of new data and algorithmic innovation assure that “autonomy creep” will relentlessly challenge human oversight from within. McKinsey, Bain, and BCG are the management models here.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Adaptive performance manifests as creativity, problem solving, grit, innovation, and citizenship. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 12

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? to hit your objectives?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

People often ask me why it's so hard for big companies to be innovative. Corporate antibodies are not just naysayers; they are necessary to protect the company from risk. But that doesn't mean innovation can't happen, even in the biggest, most entrenched firm. Senior Leadership Follows Through. How did we do it?

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Millions of lines of code (re)shape high-performance vehicles as much or more than any aerodynamic, materials or thermodynamic innovation. Indeed, code often makes those aerodynamic, material and thermodynamic innovations possible. Always look to the leadership. Where were Volkswagen’s code reviews ? Trust but verify.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

This popular triumph of the “ heuristics and biases ” literature pioneered by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky has made us aware of flaws that economics long glossed over, and led to interesting innovations in retirement planning and government policy. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management?

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Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Every single Chief Risk Officer and every single non-executive director of every single "too big to fail" financial institution should be challenged by shareholders to prove they've got a surer grasp of risk than UBS. Remember that last sentence. Enough overlaps, redundancies and checks should exist to prevent them.

Banking 9

Banking System Risk Management Review 9