HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

To make a success of digital transformation, effective leadership and a mature organization culture is required. USAA has a long history of innovative programs that champion this philosophy such as Manager Candidate School, Leadership Development School, and Vets Lead (a military focused leadership network).

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. In the US, new online firm Betterment has made it remarkably easy for ordinary customers to set up and manage investment portfolios. Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

Admonished by my mother and father for unsportsmanlike behavior, I eventually matured and forged a stiff upper lip in defeat. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. I ’m an extremely competitive person. Against mounting odds, we did more than survive.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

The interview also explores EY’s innovative talent management approach, leveraging AI for recruitment and lifelong learning opportunities. How do you ensure that these values are embedded within the organization’s talent management practices, and what strategies do you employ to promote a diverse and inclusive workplace culture?

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

VC can often: 1 - Provide more money and more follow on rounds of financing. 3 - Provide more mature views on business, exits, growth etc. Post a Comment Links to this post: " rel="nofollow"> posted by @ Create a Link << Home Time Leadership is my philosophies on Leadership and Time Management. 2 - Provide introductions.

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Blog CEO Due Diligence Leadership 190

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

The most successful companies incorporate disruptive thinking into all of their business and management practices to gain distinctive competitive value propositions. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation? Are your management and executive ranks void of youth?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research published in Harvard Business Review’s 2016 State of Leadership Development Study, indicated that only about 33% of Line-of-Business respondents said that they have become much more effective as managers after taking part in development programs. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2012

These decisions arise from the clarity of both a mature manager and the language that they speak. All internal development is the attempt to remove unconscious or reactive barriers from the decision making process. All execution involves minute-by-minute decisions.

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Apparel Leadership Maturity Execution 236

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

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. As an up-and-coming preparing for management, I'm working to grasp these core concepts. Share and Enjoy: View Comments bfpower Well said, Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Is your article title really about anger management or appropriate emotional expression in business? link] mikemyatt While I agree with all your assertions, there is in fact quite a lot of overlap between emotions, conflict management, anger management, interpersonal communications, etc. I will be curating again, soon.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Nowhere will you find a better model for servant leadership, vision casting, discipleship, good decisioning, discernment, self-leadership, intentional leadership, crisis management, character based leadership, etc. All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. The business absolutely needs energetic and emotionally mature leaders for it to prosper. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Finance charges are negotiated.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Despite maturity, confidence, and by all external accounts, success, I still really, really want to be liked. All other childhood aspirations have gone by the wayside–marrying Shaun Cassidy, winning Wimbledon, living on a horse ranch. Why does this one refuse to fade? The answer is obvious. And I am not alone.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. As the trend matures expectations for on-demand delivery of products and services across all categories heighten.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

I forget who it was, but some researcher determined that a person can really only manage relationships with about 150 people. Then we look for tools and systems to manage those relationships and expand our capacity for more relationships, and they can add an additional layer of complexity. Always look forward to your thoughts Paul.

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Media Blog Tools Influence 325

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

The best way to manage a fledgling business is for managers to be impatient for profit but patient for growth. First, when a business is impatient for profit, managers are forced to validate their assumptions and demonstrate that customers are fundamentally willing to pay an acceptable price for the company's offering.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. At the company level, it is quite clear that digital maturity is synonymous with stronger economic growth and a higher level of well-being for employees. We found that the more digitally mature companies grew revenue at six times the rate of their less mature counterparts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Does your organization have a data analytics manager yet? A sustainability manager? In the absence of formal structures, managers in the new roles scout for social and environmental initiatives that enhance the organization’s reputation, but they can put forward only a very limited range of sustainability initiatives.

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Positioning Company Succession Supply Chain 11

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? Did the rating agencies understand that the acceleration of debt maturities brought on by a downgrade could cause a bankruptcy? Ethics Failure Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e., Calculating this debt in “present” (i.e.,

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GDP Maturity Crisis Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

What have been less explored are the specific actions taken by private equity (PE) fund managers. In a survey of 79 PE firms managing more than $750 billion in capital, we provide granular information on PE managers’ practices and how firms’ strategies relate to the characteristics of their founders.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Instead they are waiting for the technology to mature and for expertise in AI to become more widely available. It’s true that some technologies need further development, but some (like traditional machine learning) are quite mature and have been available in some form for decades. We think this is a bad idea.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? How do these changes help us manage the needs of our aging population? Of the large markets, the U.S., Health care.

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Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2018

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Due Diligence Company Learning Curve Finance 8

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Leadership for the small-business owner (which usually deal with entrepreneurialism, sales, financing, and other basic management and business skills). Leadership for managers in big organizations. Processes need to be analyzed and improved, and leaders need to learn how to manage through systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

IBM divested its mature hardware businesses to focus on the new growth areas; for example, its PC business was sold to Lenovo. They failed, except that HP bailed them out with its even bigger acquisition of Compaq, again pursuing scale in a mature business (PCs). Compaq acquired DEC to move into higher-end computing, and to gain scale.

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Maturity Software Competitive Advantage Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies.

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Industry Company GDP Bottom-up 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers. Spending time early in your career in a frontier market has a lasting impact on all your subsequent management decisions.

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Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Three-fourths of those we examined sit on the executive management team within the company. Even if their teams are small, their voice on the executive management team means they have influence over how the company prioritizes and spends resources. About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions.

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B2C B2B Forrester Budgeting 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Management experiences grow generic capabilities that are valuable to all managers, no matter their function.

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