N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

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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. He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post.

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

To what extent is that down to a successful talent management strategy? I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

To gain more insights into a specific firm, investors have shown more interest in intangibles like strategy, brand, innovation, systems integration, collaboration, and so on. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Only a few days before, hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor-Jones created a stir by remarking at a conference that women will never rival men as traders because babies are a "focus killer". Here are two of many examples we came across that show how anyone can lead with a more feminine ethos: Empathy Is Innovation. households.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

This problem of extending the automatic reasoning of AI systems to understand the context of their decisions is highly complex, and creative innovation, like the one at Google, is usually needed to push the effort forward. Product managers that I previously thought were hopeless became effective.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

While larger companies may be able to hedge the costs associated with key inputs and smooth out any cyclical costs, smaller businesses may struggle to achieve this. Being able to manage the inflationary period well is likely to be crucial to how well businesses large and small manage to ride the tide.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Still the agency drags on with its year-old push to end Saturday delivery , the most powerful innovation they can muster — which to be implemented would still take 2 years. This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Them” were the majority of managers who didn’t get what design was all about in the first place. And with good reason: From Target to Uber, business managers everywhere are starting to understand that the strategic use of design is making a difference in achieving outsized business results.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. However, managers and focus groups liked a separate scented additive compound that came out of this research stream. Unfortunately, the project wasn't able to hit the former target.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

And the choice to hold on to cash or use it to repurchase shares, rather than invest profits in new opportunities for innovation and expansion, has had real consequences for our economy that have contributed to the current political upheaval. Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Organizations that manage digital networks (we call them network orchestrators) are different from traditional product and service providers. However, this may have been a hedging strategy as Starbucks built up its own digital capability, including a popular app and payment system. Building in-house is not for the faint of heart.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

These “ superbosses ,” as I called them, spanned dozens of industries and included legendary figures such as fast casual restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, packaged foods titan Michael Miles, tech mogul Larry Ellison, hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, media icon Oprah Winfrey, and a host of others. Julian Robertson did.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

What’s missing from the managerial toolkit is a way for managers to allocate their—and their organization’s—time and attention and resources on a day-to-day basis across the competing demands of managing today’s requirements and tomorrow’s possibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. So here’s the money management industry. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Many of the leadership team whom I had worked with for a number of years changed,” she explained. But with job insecurity the new normal , we have heard from a number of top-level managers who had counted on one high-level backer to protect them — only to find themselves marginalized or even made redundant when their sponsor jumped ship.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2013

As noted management expert Geoffrey Moore told me with respect to high-velocity competition, "I''m not sure you ever want to be in the public markets." As the pace of competition intensifies, it is going to be harder and harder for companies like Dell to keep a leadership position. Competition Disruptive innovation Strategy'

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

In an earlier post , Kishore Sengupta and Ludo Van der Heyden were able to discern some leadership lessons from the race — that you need more than determination and courage to get you ahead. Likewise, Bill Gates was quick to manage out people who didn't fit, including two presidents, James Towne and Michael Hallman.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

of middle managers in the U.S. In school, being disruptive might get you sent to the principal's office, but in business, disruption is a proven path to success , describing innovations that take root at the low end of the market, or create a new market, and then eventually upend an industry. but only 4.2% of Fortune 500 CEO's.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Some countries have been highly innovative in this area. One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms. Importantly, boards need to set the right expectations with top management and should push back against overly aggressive pay demands. In the U.K.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It animates us as people and fuels organizational innovation, value creation, and growth. Aside from hedge funds, risk arbitrage, FX traders and other derivatives solely established to make money on the margins, no company that sells a product or a service of any sort was founded strictly to turn a profit. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

They have multiple ways of thinking and doing things, which not only serve as a hedge against change but also form the substrate for experimentation and learning. Modularity also facilitates innovation through recombination and promotes greater agility because of the reduced scale of each unit. Modularity.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

What are the most innovative companies doing to position themselves? While they are focused on optimization, their shareholders continue to demand that they pay out greater dividends or engage in larger share buy backs instead of investing their profits for future innovation. Rule the World. ” -Ray Wang.

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