N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

While raw intelligence is a valuable commodity, in-and-of-itself, and to the exclusion of other traits and characteristics, the sole reliance on IQ can be a barrier to professional growth and maturity. Is your intellect standing in the way of your success? Are you so enamored with how smart you are that you can’t get anything done?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Forget all the buzzwords and acronyms, social media is about meeting your constituencies where they are – in a setting of their choosing, and communicating with them on their terms. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. Aggressive-growth and family-controlled dual-class companies display higher long-term shareholder returns. We find that this age-to-maturity has been declining. stock exchanges. stock exchanges.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Short tenure in consulting, believing that recent corporate experience readily translates to the entrepreneurial marketplace. See consulting as an investment (short-term and long-term), not to be short-changed. What is their maturity level? This does not include marketing, which should be another 10 percent.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

There is nothing short of a voluminous amount of leadership information being published on a daily basis. I fired him from my team realizing he would never understand how to relate to a client on their terms. The number of books, blogs, tweets, videos, webcasts, podcasts, etc., And he was considered an expert!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2017

While their innovative products have been a boon to consumers in mature economies, the resulting efficiency and security benefits have largely bypassed the 2 billion consumers in the developing world who lack formal banking services altogether. As the company put it in a blog post , “The key to flexible earnings is flexible financing.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

While America has continued leading the world in terms of investment in basic science research, it has lost the ability to do the kinds of process improvements that are essential for innovation. SMMs can play crucial roles in innovation by engaging in partnerships with universities and other laboratories to help mature technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

AI technologies like neural-based machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to mature and prove their value, quickly becoming centerpieces of AI technology suites among adopters. And we expect at least a portion of current AI piloters to fully integrate AI in the near term.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Founders face a wide range of decisions when building their startups: market decisions, product decisions, financing decisions, and many more. as their startups mature. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. In short, relatives bypass detailed founder discussions at their peril, yet they are statistically more likely to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But only athletic events produce clear winners and losers in the short-term — and most organizations are not actively engaged in those. Many of the transactions included in their announcements cannot really be judged successful for several years, or until the loans mature.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals. Our organizational culture wasn't optimal to say the least. But no one was looking at things from the customers' holistic perspective.

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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. “If you are a CEO who has some large, profitable project you are shelving because of short-term worries,” he offered, “call Berkshire. Let us unburden you.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2012

The following table, based on IMF projections, is a list of the top 20 global economic powers (by GDP): Other mature but smaller democracies have huge debt-to-GDP ratios as well, including Greece (166), Ireland (109), and Portugal (106). And many of the world's top debt holders are its largest and most powerful democracies.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

But let’s change what we’re asking: Which has the better potential to scale up and create long term value for customers, owners, investors, and employees? Collins’ new capability, matured and developed by a dominant major customer, is now a competitive and profitable business area for the company.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. This looks unlikely.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. This means the entire company must have common values for things like learning by doing, being comfortable with ambiguity, balancing long-and short-term returns. You need to create an environment in which it can thrive.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2011

It would seem more logical to restrict retail banks to investments in high grade securities, such as short-dated government bonds, that matched deposits in terms of maturity and liquidity. There are precedents for this kind of ring-fencing.

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Banking Report Retail Bond 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. This fixation generates a short-term view on the potential of the venture to expand beyond the immediate product line. This conclusion is an interesting one.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. In this category, we primarily looked at three subcategories: inputs (financing options, talent retention, startup capacity), process (how sophisticated are firms’ business processes, and what’s the level of R&D?), Innovation and change.

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