N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Also see psychologist Maria Konnikova’s 2013 Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes. Yet how do you actually do it, when life and livelihood generally depend on operating inside a box? Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. We all prize it.

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Groupthink Emotional Intelligence Learning-by-Doing Hedge 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Business leaders believe a strong organizational culture is critical to success, yet culture tends to feel like some magic force that few know how to control. We’ve found that answering three questions can help transform culture from a mystery to a science: 1) How does culture drive performance? Insight Center.

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Motivation Company Airlines Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Their report found that the pilots, although well-trained, had fatally misdiagnosed the reasons that the plane had gone into a stall, and that their subsequent errors, based on this initial mistake, led directly to the catastrophe. What — or who — was to blame? One of the pioneers in this effort is, counterintuitively, the U.S.

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Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

The debate over how to reverse ever-increasing income inequality has moved front and center in the Democratic presidential campaign. This “limit” is another license to manipulate the stock market for the benefit of company executives and hedge-fund managers. She should also press for a ban on stock buybacks.

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Proposal Hedge Safe Harbor Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The competition for talent will be especially intense for companies for whom advanced analytics forms a core part of their proposition — think e-commerce giants, hedge funds and complex system engineers. What they do need are analyses that solve key commercial and operational problems. So how to get started? Not so much.

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