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Diversification Putting Pressure on FinTech Executives

N2Growth Blog

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members.

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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

with equal rotation of study in the final year of GMI’s Business Administration School, really launched my career at GM and led to my quick progression through the organisation culminating in my leading the team that restructured General Motors in Australia in 1986. billion in the last 5 years).

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Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma

Harvard Business Review

That book is The Innovator's Dilemma by HBS Professor Clay Christensen. But what's most interesting to me isn't that The Innovator's Dilemma was on that list. Anyone familiar with Professor Christensen's work will quickly recognize the same causal mechanism at the heart of the Innovator's Dilemma: the pursuit of profit.

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Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Harvard Business Review

Yet, despite the fact that all of our guests across our 18 sessions (and counting) have embraced these truths, the average result of such commitments to innovation seems to have been tenuous. But the corporate innovators we’ve talked to all know that. They’ve read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. Numerous lessons.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business Review

The USFD research team engaged 235 households that were willing to let us track their financial lives for a full year. When a business, rather than a household, faces such volatility, it responds by building up working capital. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

It became easier and easier for small enterprises to gain customer reach and awareness (along with working capital). In our book Strategy That Works we articulate what those capabilities can look like, how to blueprint and build them, and how to bring them to scale. Our recommendations include: Be skeptical of benchmarking.

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