N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Thomas Jefferson had one of the most exhaustive personal libraries of his time prior to donating it to the Library of Congress (which many joked Roosevelt had read). However, my Kindle allows me to keep a library at hand. Teddy Roosevelt was rumored to actually read two books a day. And the batter is like the energizer bunny.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images. Other telecoms are offering solutions such as smart parking and waste management systems. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. The movement to make cities smarter is transforming municipal governments worldwide.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Other ideas: donate your expertise as an award, speak at the local library or school, and interview local officials to report for newsletters. So, in teaming up with those who can do what I can’t, they might need what I do.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” With this in mind, over time, Joel changed his management style. “No longer was I focusing solely on what I could get done as a manager,” he says. “When I finished an article, it went into the library of resources,” he says. Finances were a consideration.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Machine intelligence is a new discipline for managers to learn, one that demands a new class of software talent and a new organizational structure. Many of these tools are available as free, open-source libraries from technology companies such as Google (TensorFlow), Microsoft (CNTK), or Amazon (DSSTNE).

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Similarly, they believe areas such as management and finance are equally uncertain and unpredictable. The researchers cite the academic world as an area where looser networks might work well, as projects typically have very uncertain outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To test commercial opportunities in this environment, a number of entrepreneurs are creating personal analytics tools to help citizens make better decisions about health providers, disease management, and even personal finances related to healthcare.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

From The New York Public Library. In the manufacturing example, this is the ideal place to talk about the introduction of a new line or the adoption of a quality management system. This is the appropriate home when Human Resources wants to do a talent review or when finance wants to share a new budget process.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

FROM THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY. He led the finance team. They managed to keep the fledgling relationship secret for three weeks. He claimed he was busy with work, but it was the middle of the quarter, and no big management or board meetings were on the docket. Brad: Drink after the conference? Elizabeth: The whole gang?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

Everyone from product managers, to call center reps, to the front-line worker in the branch or store uses information to make decisions. When Bill in Finance generates his monthly Top Line report, Craig in Marketing can leave a comment on the "Revenue" column inquiring, "Is this billed revenue or booked revenue?" And in a Web 2.0

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

At times this belief has led the managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin into pretty fierce debates with his intellectual opponents. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? But the same managers would never admit this in public. But he feeds you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. Managers and boards now actively look to “outsmart” the activists in order to maintain control, and critics have alleged that activist hedge funds contribute to the economy’s bias toward short-term thinking.

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Allow me to recommend some categories: Leadership (of course), Success, Theology, History, Economics, the Classics, Politics and Freedom, Finances and Investing.  Now, of course, I try to be a better financial manager and leader, too, and read for that as well. Read broadly across many genres. Books are for us treasures.

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