N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.

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Due Diligence Metrics Competitive Advantage Rogers 167

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies. Finding one’s passion. Working together with others. Honoring our elders.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

One of the most recent and most trenchant critiques comes from Roger Martin , dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, in his book Fixing the Game (Harvard Business Review Press 2011). And, of course, Steve Jobs. But this is at it should be.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

Not surprisingly, as Jean Rogers, the Executive Director of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), points out in a Greenbiz blog , "It''s no surprise that banks and financial sectors are the institutions least trusted by U.S. environmental, social, and governance — or ESG) performance.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. As Will Rogers wryly noted: “It is not what we don’t know that gets us into trouble; it is what we know that ain’t so.” The Arc of Forecasting at Twitch.

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