N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

link] ATIG Mike, authenticity and transparency for better and ETHICAL business. In fact, you might be interested in reading a previous post that I authored on this topic: [link]. – I'd be interested in your thoughts. Thanks for the suggestion Dan. I am not specialist but I try to learn.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's not – Unless the request infringes upon our values, moral or ethical standards using no as a response is just intellectually lazy, avoidance or ego centric – imho [link] mikemyatt So Dan, tell me how you really feel All kidding aside, you and I are definitely on the same page here.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. When you find an organization in crisis, you can most times peel back the layers on poor decision, after poor decision, after poor decision.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As the energy crisis digs in, those credit taps are being turned off and startups are being forced to rely on the income they’re generating themselves to survive, and sadly a large number are proving unable to do so. The risks of this happening are not helped by the lower ethical standards entrepreneurs are held to.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Unless an untreated psychological, neurological or psychiatric condition exists, an inability to change is likely self-inflicted by one or all of the following: no recognition of needed change; no desire to change, or lack of work ethic needed to cause the change.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 13, 2020

Obviously the very act of laying off large numbers of people suggests the firm involved is not in good shape, but the researchers wanted to test how the impact of layoffs differs from other forms of organizational crisis, such as poor publicity or breaches of ethical norms. Unique crises. ”

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 15, 2020

He’s got a course on crisis leadership (and lots of other resources) I love that he’s partnering with David Kinnaman and Gloo to study the pulse of the church each week. William Vanderbloemen – Vanderbloemen has been gathering some great information throughout this crisis. He really wants to help people.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. The organization maintains and lives by an ethics statement. Maintains active crisis preparedness and prevention program. Accounting firm utilization plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. It could help boost pay equality Tips and tools to help you navigate the slippery slope of business ethics Lessons from Britain’s Most Admired Companies on leading with integrity Should pets be allowed in the office?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2017

The employee – sometimes after a crisis of confidence – reports their boss and ultimately triumphs. Your career is on the line; the personal finances of your family are on the line. Photo courtesy of Pixabay. In the movies, if someone suspects their boss is breaking the law, the conclusion to the story is pretty standard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Banks have developed fortress balance sheets, improving credit quality by 54 percent, increasing net income and, restoring aggregate lending to pre-crisis levels of nearly $7 trillion. If it had been, there wouldn't have been a financial crisis.). And then there's the issue of risk, as illustrated by the recent financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2011

Among the many shocking facts that have emerged from the News of the World hacking crisis , it is the revelations about News International's dysfunctional leadership and the NoW's brutal organizational culture that have gripped me most.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2011

This great crisis is in our economy — and so it might be of our society, culture, and polity. Hence, your incentives are largely just the same as everybody else at Davos: to perpetuate stale concepts like "profit," "product," and "output," the tired, toxic practices of "strategy," "finance," and "marketing."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But must employees, investors, and other constituents accept harmful employment cultures in fast-growth organizations until a crisis occurs? But this focus on a single element of the HR value proposition can perpetuate a crisis. This is a laudable response. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. How will the crisis of problematic loans in Italian banks be resolved?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

It has already been demonstrated that facial image scans can be used to guess a person’s sexual orientation using algorithms that deliver a remarkable level of accuracy (while raising obvious ethical and privacy questions, too).

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A better way to break up your steps would be to have three segmented goals (with sub-goals) that build up to your main goal, ownership of the Z4: Finance – a. When are the Finance and Research steps complete? Initiate the finance process. Normal steps might be save money, research best way to purchase, buy car.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The bank proudly held itself apart from its New York–based peers after the financial crisis and regularly touted its “ culture of caring.” Wells Fargo leaders also seem to be blind to the significance of this crisis — both for consumers and for its own culture. ” Deterrents to speaking up. Why risk it?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

I spent a dozen years there — a tenure that overlapped with Dudley’s — went on to work at several other firms, and then, after the financial crisis, decided to go back to school. This kind of interdependence has the potential to move the focus back to ethical standards of behavior instead of just legal ones. I now have a Ph.D.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management' Physicists, in his experience, didn’t do that. This wasn’t because they were any smarter than social scientists, Kuhn concluded.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

There's a beguiling little moment in the financial-crisis documentary Inside Job where hedge fund billionaire George Soros describes the principles of oil tanker design. If they're compartmentalized, the risk of crisis is much lower than if all sorts of financial products and institutions are allowed to mix together in a giant sloshfest.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The exponential growth in executive compensation over the last thirty years, as compared to slow growth in average worker pay, has been at the center of debates about the financial crisis and its aftermath. customer satisfaction, risk audits, adherence to company ethics). But these debates have, so far, had little political impact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The reasoning, backed by several respected scholars, is that leverage was a leading cause of the financial crisis. Leverage ratios might be the O-rings of the financial crisis. The result was an intense focus on risk, including risks related to ethical standards. Ethics Finance Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Then there’s the fact that Goldman Sachs is a relative newcomer to Federal Reserve supervision — it and rival Morgan Stanley only agreed to become bank holding companies , giving them access to New York Fed loans, at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. Ethics Finance Government' This won’t be an easy thing to fix.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This is the distinction between what he terms the 'Character Ethic' vs the 'Personality Ethic' The prior depends on deep changes within each of us including our view of creating a legacy for future generations. Another key distinction is one highlighted by Stephen Covey in his 7-Habits books.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

Five years after a financial crisis that, as best anybody can tell, had almost nothing to do with insider trading by hedge funds, the two biggest post-crisis criminal crackdowns on the financial sector in the U.S. Ethics Finance Government' have centered on. insider trading by hedge funds. It is strange.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. naqiewei/Getty Images. But what role does culture play in corporate misconduct, and why do these problematic cultures persist?

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided How to Create a Monthly Finance Routine. Stephanie shares: “ In this post of the 100 Degrees of Entrepreneurship Podcast I’m sharing the monthly finance routine you can use to grow your business and your bottom line. ” Connect with Stephanie here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Whenever some crisis loomed on the Voyager, she was known barking out: “Options?” Great insights Susan. ” to the crew. After considering their suggestions, she was quick to make a decision.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Business and organizational stories do not hit the public consciousness until there is a crisis. How much further should we extend ethics? Sadly, many of the perpetrators did not see lapses in ethics… it was legal and just business to them. Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

The biggest crisis of the century, the COVID-19 pandemic, represents an excellent opportunity to deploy new technologies. As a few recent examples, Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, is changing the face of finance as the first decentralized peer-to-peer payment network powered by its users with no central authority or intermediaries.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

The financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn — which Lazear somewhat infamously downplayed while in office — have put a big dent in the credibility of the macro side of the discipline. The issue isn't that economists have nothing interesting to say about the crisis. And then, well, things didn't go so well.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This is one of those stories, which looks at the devastating Ebola crisis through the lens of both history and risk management, with lessons that go beyond what''s happening in Africa. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does."

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S. Truman Please comment below sharing your thoughts and insights on what you believe defines great leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. PE people certainly pay themselves well.

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