N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. The truth is that even leaders who don’t fail make bad decisions from time-to-time.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. They know it is linked to risks of other kinds.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

This wastes time for users and damages corporate reputations. Firefighting operations continued for two days. PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Buck-passing risk is insidious because it can become so pervasive and exacerbate so many other risks.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Enhanced reputation. Quality should be viewed as a journey, rather than a destination. Higher sales.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

Walmart's principal problems appear to be largely reputation-related: a phenomenon that has cost the company millions in wasted PR consulting fees and possibly billions in lost, potential market capitalization over the last decade. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

” Many managers can easily recite the business case for ethics: Who doesn’t want better risk management, deeper employee engagement, reduced regulatory costs, public trust, and a lure to purpose-driven Millennials? They understand the power of reputation and relationships. Most corporate leaders know this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2013

In this era of complex supply chains and the hiring of expert sub-contractors, taking such responsibility is crucial for preventing events with the potential to adversely affect the corporation and its reputation. In this section (at p.181), Significantly improving education and training of BP personnel to enhance capability and competency.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Indeed, systematically dealing with the risks of anti-business/anti-globalization proposals and the opportunities of pro-growth policies has become as important for global corporations as addressing product, market, and financial issues. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The good news is that our understanding of why cyber risk forecasts keep falling short is improving. The main culprit is that companies quantify cyber risks the same way they do other operational risks — focusing narrowly on potential direct revenue losses.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Still, top executives continue to stumble in the way they respond to an attack, magnifying and extending the damage both to their reputation and their customers. Executives today must operate under the assumption that they will experience a cyber incident that will require them to notify their customers, investors, and regulators.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

Unfortunately, failing to assess the risk of the status quo does not mean the risks won’t materialize—it just means you won’t be adequately prepared when they do. If you are a member of a leadership team facing a critical strategic decision, you have an obligation to address these biases before inaction leaves your business irrelevant.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The immediate news coverage is focused on the size of financial penalties for the institutions, on the potential civil or criminal culpability of bank officials and on the reputational harm to both the bank and its senior officers. It is a vexing, complicated task which requires both outstanding leadership and management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

They’ll also note that “safety pays” in reducing costs, or admit they fear reputational damage following a significant incident at their company. These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Executives in any business, however, can learn valuable lessons in crisis leadership: One critical concept that we share with the participants in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard is that every crisis includes many situations , each with different contingencies and considerations. Are you ready?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

If as a leader you don’t take the time to get to know your team members on a very personal basis you simply won’t build the trust necessary to successfully weather the seasons of leadership. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? to hit your objectives?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Activities include media-spokesperson training, field and operations staff training, coordination of corporate response and message points, community liaison, collateral materials writing-production, video archiving-production, media relations, monitoring and expert testimony.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In the aftermath of Three Mile Island and the Exxon Valdez crisis, companies increasingly became scrutinized under the public microscope… thus affecting its Wall Street book value, reputation in the marketplace and employee morale. It became incumbent to communicate openly to media about the crisis and what was being done.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Multiple conversations about cyber risks are happening across a multitude of divisions in isolation. At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. And you can opt for strategies going forward that depend less on keeping information secret — that depend, perhaps, on difficult-to-imitate operational or sales capabilities, rather than trade secrets. Insight Center. The 21st-Century CEO. Sponsored by Cognizant.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time.

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