N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

It can be highly useful if you need to, for example, defend a budget request or a strategic plan to company leadership. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology. 4 – High economic, political, or social impact. 2 – Little impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Science fiction can help.

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Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 15

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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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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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology. Companies like Whole Foods and Target in the U.S.

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Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Today’s young professionals grew up in an age of mind-boggling technological change, seeing the growth of the internet, the invention of the smartphone, and the development of machine-learning systems. It’s no wonder, then, that young people are anxious about their ability to compete in the job market.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

With the first approach, companies seek significant mismatches between their existing organizational capabilities and the markets they serve. They ask: Where are opportunities to introduce something totally unexpected in a market we already serve, with an offering we can deliver tomorrow with little additional investment?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2016

Network businesses have always been around, from matchmakers to real estate brokers, but it’s the move to digital platforms that has led to market-shaking effects. Instagram is an exciting marketing channel; GoPro’s account helps keep users engaged with the company and lets GoPro know how people use its products.

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Real Estate Business Model Incubator Short-term 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react? How many new customers churn after just a few months?

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Markets, environments, and technology can change so quickly that no amount of profit today guarantees success tomorrow. Testing, incubating, and investing in alternative models hedges against that possibility.

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Business Model Incubator Supply Chain Welch 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. They frequently find the technologies are less of a hassle than the people. Renaissance Technologies and other, even more secretive investment funds are the management models here. All-In Autonomy.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

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Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Jim,” as he is known to all, not only did pioneering work in mathematics; he also founded Renaissance Technologies, a hedge fund that relied on scientists to make predictions and trade in global markets. But imagine if you had to plan the demise of a whole country.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A lot of businesses have pursued social responsibility more out of their marketing departments or as some sort of charitable donation. 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.

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Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2017

Joe Bower and Lynn Paine “had me at hello” (to quote Jerry Maguire ) with their new HBR article, “ The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership.” Because anybody can buy that equity on a stock market without permission of the company, buyers can fundamentally change the terms of that equity investment.

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Hedge Short-term Long-term NPV 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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Benchmarking Software B2B GAAP 8

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." Its RAZR thin phone was a huge success in the mid-2000''s, and the market raved. Take Motorola, for instance. Take Motorola, for instance.

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Venture Capitalist Restructuring Competitive Advantage Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The horrible irony: The very detail-oriented systems (and people) Dimon had put in place had obscured rather than surfaced his bank's horrible hedge. There's a reason why great chefs visit the farms and markets that source their restaurants: The raw ingredients are critical to success. Is this micromanagement?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Internally, examine culture, leadership, process, and people, as well as the value proposition you offer to customers. Externally, examine societal trends, political implications, technological advancements, and competitive forces. These leaders miss out on a lot of ideas, and they often struggle with alignment and employee buy-in.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2016

It drives large efforts from spearheading a movement to bringing a game-changing product or technology to market. As technology rapidly brings us into the broader world – and the world into our living rooms – for many it brings with it a sense of loss of control and a corresponding disruption in our sense of identity and place.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

The hedge fund founded and run by billionaire Paul Singer just announced that it now owns 6.2% The company, founded in 1996 by an engineer from Xerox’s legendary Palo Alto Research Center , Pradeep Sindhu (who remains its chief technology officer and vice chairman), was one of the highest flyers of the fin de siècle tech stock boom.

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Hedge Chief Technology Officer Maturity IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

What will be the administration’s take on science and technology? Likewise, we know that whatever our historical assumptions have been, many are likely to change as technology advances. In malleable environments, such as in newly created or disrupted markets, they will need to envision and realize new possibilities.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 26, 2021

How do you become a market leader in the midst of rapid change? and has studied emerging business and technology trends. You predict that we will have only 100 dominant players in 50 markets by 2050. In fact, many of their leaders have forgotten how they got there – mission, talent, offering, and markets.

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