Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2020

The investment market dealing with precious metals has barely made the cut in terms of popularity among people, and it’s not something many people tap into, if they do hear about it, it’s mostly for either gold, silver or palladium. The metal is pretty resistant to corrosion or rust where even the best give up. Limited Supply Sources.

Price 67

Price Short-term Long-term Globalization 67

Rich Gee Group

MARCH 19, 2014

Car Sales - If you get into the game, you can quickly become a finance or desk manager making $120+ a year. If you keep moving up you can triple that as a General Manager. Decent career path to management or senior tech. It’s a recession-resistant career, and you can find work anywhere in the world.

Career 192

Career Real Estate Engineering Education 192

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

They resist at all costs letting that dreaded public display of compassion slip out. People’s resistance to display compassion, other than to family and friends, is what makes it so complex. I don’t know anyone whose been on the receiving end of authentic and appropriate love and compassion that has a distaste for it.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 404

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] Taariq Lewis Hi Mike: As always, a great blog. I will be curating again, soon. A blog post?

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 402

Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2010

At first I sulked and resisted; that’s the drama queen in me. For me it was a first grade teacher who challenged me to take an art project some “annoying boy” in my class had scribbled on and find a way to make it work. Yet, my teacher persisted and encouraged me to find a way to make “lemonade out of lemons”.

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Press Release Discount PR Leadership 192

N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

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Blog Leadership CEO Brand 315

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 293

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

Cost 8

Cost Decentralization Finance Entrepreneur 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Micro-insurance is not at scale anywhere except when heavily subsidized by government, a market we hope technology may change in the future.

Microfinance 11

Microfinance Insurance Banking Bottom-up 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

Once they understood this point, they aimed to provoke change, but by working within the existing management system, not blowing it up. The data provocateurs I’ve worked with form a diverse lot: scientists, HR specialists, people at the lowest management levels, division presidents, relative newcomers, and seasoned veterans.

Quality 11

Quality Resistance Learning-by-Doing Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

One of senior management's favorite pastimes is moving around the boxes — and the people inside them. Most managers do reorganize with good intentions — to grow revenues, reduce costs, improve customer focus, etc. No matter the structure, there still will be tensions , competition for resources, and misalignment.

Market Segmentation 14

Market Segmentation Restructuring Marketing Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

In July 2015, Novartis launched its new heart failure drug, Entresto, which Forbes in 2014 predicted would be a blockbuster — with expected sales of $10 billion annually — as the potential market in the US exceeds 5 million people with a heart failure condition. The failure stemmed from resistance in the U.S.

Planning 8

Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

Musk’s compensation plan, which will give him close to $56 billion in stock and awards if Tesla’s market cap reaches $650 billion, is designed to communicate a particular value proposition to Wall Street. Maintaining that patience requires constant focus on that north star of a half-a-trillion market value.

Planning 8

Planning Marketing Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We can't resist including another 11 posts, a hard-to-agree-upon sampling of the ideas we were proudest to publish and discussions we most enjoyed hosting this year. What Venture Capital Can Learn from Emerging Markets. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. Better Time Management Is Not the Answer.

Blog 16

Blog Silverman Govindarajan Letter 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

The traditional advice, from Clayton Christensen’s work on disruptive innovations and Michael Tushman’s on organizational ambidexterity , is to set up the new activity as a separate unit, reporting to a manager at the corporate headquarters who can sponsor the new activity and help to integrate it with the rest of the company.

Mass Marketing 9

Mass Marketing Brand Disruptive Innovation Advice 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

So when people believe that they have a strong understanding of a subject — say, finance — they tend to overclaim more, asserting that they know concepts that researchers present to them, even when the concepts are made up. The managers desperately wanted to regain their losses, and the trust of their clients.

Hedge 8

Hedge Real Estate Marketing Advertising 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Could we be overlooking – even resisting – one of the most essential catalysts of personal and business breakthroughs? Cook dismissed his own market data for over a year. This initial surprise led to an even bigger one: the market for small-business-accounting software was ripe for the taking. Surprise is the enemy.

Uncertainty 164

Uncertainty Meyer How To Disruptive Innovation 164

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The evolution of African markets faces significant barriers: cost, distance, and a lack of infrastructure. consumers are just being introduced to Apple Pay, mobile money services like MPesa and MTN Money have been flourishing in African markets. But the possibilities for ecommerce and consumer marketing are enormous.

Banking 8

Banking Retail Wireless Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Williams, who previously had sold Blogger to Google, later took the reins and managed the company for two to three years. The founder has to build a company capable of marketing and selling large volumes of the product and of providing customers with after-sales service. Sound like anyone you know?

Succession 8

Succession Leadership CEO COO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

Baruch Lev teaches accounting and finance at NYU's Stern School of Business. And I couldn't resist following up with an email Q&A: Justin Fox: A lot of smart people have been saying for a while now that public-company executives should put less time and effort into dealing with Wall Street. From the government? Ask Solyndra.

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Short-term Long-term Parcell Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But I also like it because it captures one fundamental obstacle to innovation that all would-be disruptors must be prepared to face: the potentially hostile response of incumbents who don't want to see their market advantages threatened. Say what you do — manage expectations and revisit them frequently. There's nothing new here.

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Innovation Definition Entrepreneur Resistance 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The thing he created in 1974 was Vanguard , now the world’s third-biggest manager of other people’s money , with more than $2.2 In finance, that’s a pretty hard case to make. That all worked okay for a few years, but during the bear market of the 1970s business turned ugly and Bogle’s new partners forced him out.

Finance 8

Finance Crisis Motivation CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says. Limited users are free to draft tweets and updates, which are then fed into approval queues for manager review.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Everybody has been piling on to hedge fund manager Bill Ackman lately. Or at least the market''s. That''s what activist hedge fund managers like Ackman do. Which is more than be said of a lot of other financial-market endeavors. Boards Competition Finance' I''m not joining in. But he''s doing God''s work.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The problem is that it might appear convenient, to those in charge, to take the path of least resistance, which unfortunately exactly what seems to be happening in Greece right now. What makes this charge especially ironic is that applying the rules gives us a relatively rosy picture of the current state of Greece’s public finances.

GDP 8

GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. Corporate social responsibility Finance Generational issues' These opinions matter.

Commitment 9

Commitment Banking Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

I can only imagine the resistance involved when an established, hierarchical company like the old Samsung decides to introduce practices that threaten the status quo. This became crucial in the early- to mid-1990s, as private sector participation in the power generation market in the country was starting.

Globalization 11

Globalization Mentor Project Power 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The lure of establishing an organization that uses market mechanisms to achieve its mission is substantial. The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Some are recent graduates.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

Firms in this segment have many more “moving parts” than start-up companies – systems connected to other systems, more layers of management through which bad news in the field must travel, etc. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. Later that year, Dave’s got $2.1

Operations 8

Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

Franchising 15

Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Resist the temptation to put technology teams solely in charge of AI initiatives.

Survey 12

Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

CEO/founder Mark Zuckerberg and his management team clearly don't want the scrutiny, hassle and distraction that comes with being a public company. But Zuckerberg may try harder than the Google guys to resist them. The primary cause, according to Grant Thornton, is changes in how stock markets work. decimalization.

Long-term 15

Long-term Short-term Marketing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

But the best CEOs resist the desire to chase the next shiny object. CEOs can waste a massive amount of time simply tending to the egos and petty squabbles of professional managers―time better spent connecting directly with the front line and solving their needs. The same messages must be repeated again and again ad nauseam.

CEO 8

CEO Class Chief Executive Officer Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Clinical and administrative staff often view their work as a vocation as much as a profession, and they are historically suspicious of senior administrators and resistant to strategic agendas. Within a few years, we had dramatically turned around the organization’s finances, performance measures, and market share.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

They can also run into trouble syndicating later rounds of financing if other VC firms see that they are losing partners, or suspect that they are a “zombie” firm, unable to raise a subsequent fund. At larger VC funds, partners lock in high salaries from fixed management fees, regardless of their investment performance.

Due Diligence 8

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Rate of Return Long-term 8