N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. The move is aimed at leading by example, motivating employees and ensuring business viability in the short-term.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

While the emotional distress associated with gossip can be dealt with fairly easily, the political discord that can erupt in an organization can be nothing short of disastrous. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

The short answer is yes…There are in fact a great number of tests that can quickly assess leadership ability. Poor Communication Skills : Show me a leader with poor communication skills and I’ll show you someone who will be short-lived in their position. Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

While planning is a necessity to succeed in business, particularly for long-term vision , short-term activity and flexibility are just as important. You need to be able to move flexibly with your audience and growing customer base to introduce them to your brand but on their terms, rather than how you think it should be.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

There is a simple short-cut which allows you to quickly extrapolate an hourly rate from a total annual compensation figure that I find useful for quick comparative purposes. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Trusts, however, were financed by consumer deposits, while the toxic asset of 2008 were securities contracts held by investment banks.). households are generally not directly at risk in short-term wholesale funding arrangements.” Morgan, were unable to value the trusts, and refused to ‘bail out’ Knickerbocker.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. It's also important to very clearly define our terms when working in an organization for the reason MPFriedman describes above.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Bloomberg New Energy Finance has estimated that between now and 2030, around 70% of the power generation the world will add will be renewables. The Guilt or Enlightenment: Moral Suasion . But it is tough for public companies in particular to spend money when they think it doesn’t pay back in traditional ROI terms. They’d better.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. Second, when major disasters do occur, individuals are shocked but quickly begin to let their guard down again.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

In a recent paper, Jonathan Morduch and Jonathan Conning explain the role of debt and equity financing in the microfinance industry. In microfinance, just as in corporate finance, one of the key ratios driving investors is the debt-to-equity ratio. But just rescheduling debt payments may not be enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

It’s a lot easier to maintain high levels of energy and morale at a company when sales are booming and the stock price is soaring. But the reality of competition today is that long-term success is virtually impossible without short-term stumbles.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 25, 2009

There are many definitions for the term office politics but I think it is about power; how we acquire it and; how we use it to influence others while also promoting our own agenda. In short, these are the practices that can make organizational life intolerable But let’s not throw the proverbial baby out with the bath water here.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

Chapters are like paragraphs, or sentences: some may be short, some long; the variation of pacing, of phrasing, of crescendo and decrescendo, all has its own meaning and impact. Speaking of rhythm and music, for Steel Fear I decided early on to go with very short chapters — the shortest is 20 words long! The term is again a giveaway.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Not buying and holding Greek debt at the start of the crisis for a mere $50 billion now seems like a bad idea regardless of any concern for future moral hazard. The response to those critics at the time was "never mind the short term costs, wait for the long term benefits." Trust is not an optional extra.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

Thus, a CEO who is concerned with meeting quarterly earnings targets may choose not to invest in employee morale – and in so choosing, hurt her company’s long-term performance. Indeed, Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman stopped reporting quarterly earnings to allow the company (and its investors) to focus on long-term value.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Clawbacks are an essential technique for balancing long-term business health against short-term bonus wealth. Their defenders argue that consistent losers will, of course, get fired — so what's the long-term point of clawbacks?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

Now you have some difficult decisions to make about how to divvy up responsibilities while you’re short-staffed. When Kenneth Jennings, the CEO of Mr. Rekey Locksmith, a residential and commercial locksmith service, found out that his top finance person — we’ll call her Louise — had accepted a new job, his mind reeled.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. The greatest leaders throughout history have been nothing short of relentless in their pursuit of knowledge. Teddy Roosevelt was rumored to actually read two books a day.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This point was underscored by Unilever CEO Paul Polman when he courageously told short-term investors who did not support sustainability efforts not to buy his company’s shares. The Moral Frame. Whether in politics, finance, or business, there is growing concern that many leaders have lost their moral compass.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But what these groups should be doing longer-term — what value they should be providing their members, how their leaders should steer and contribute to the effort, and what types of events and services they should offer — is frustratingly hard to see, or agree on. Use resources on hand.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

I can tell you that without question the best leaders are able to make very complex decisions, on short time frames, and with incomplete information. In Benjamin Franklin's own words, "I conceived the bold and arduous Project of arriving at moral perfection. " He later concluded that perfectionism doesn't exist.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Therein lies my caution…I’m fearful that people who don’t have the experience or intuition to read between the lines of a short quote, or a 140 character Tweet, might be misled by the simplicity of the appeal. This is why I took the time to author today’s post. Have a great weekend Sir. great topic once more thanks.

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