N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Stock Market has always been based on knowing more than the general public does about market direction and the industry, company and corporate leadership of those stocks you invest in. Success in the U.S. So, why would you play in the market when you know the game is rigged? The Security and Exchange Commission (S.E.C.)

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Marketing Hedge Tips Magazine 95

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

This narrow focus on raising stock price by any means possible keeps companies from making long-term investments, protecting the interests of essential stakeholders like employees or customers, or taking much account of social welfare and ethical considerations in making business decisions. This powerful minority is activist hedge funds.

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Long-term Hedge Strategy Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development. That is like setting up a finance organization to do exotic risk hedging before putting in place basic reporting and compliance.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Likewise, understanding the context, business model, competition, and leadership of a client or an employer makes your understanding of content more useful. An ethical compass. As computers become more capable, executives are realizing just how important ethics and the capacity for moral judgement are in the field of applied AI.

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Skills Morale Ethics System 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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Company Venture Capitalist Film Reputation 62

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

MARCH 11, 2014

The decor varies greatly in the offices of the 550 CEOs, government officials, and heads of NGOs interviewed as part of our research on leadership — but hands down, photos are the most popular accessory. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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Ethics Hedge Diversity CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

To find out, we designed a pair of studies that would measure the ethical repercussions of externally motivated organizational citizenship. Good acts build up credits which act as a hedge against the debits of future bad acts. But can pushing too hard to create “good soldiers” lead to unintended consequences?

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Licensing Morale Motivation Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

Is there any head of a hedge fund who has stood up publicly, the way Warren Buffett now has, and said, "It's absurd that I should be paying lower taxes than someone who earns $30,000 a year"? We reward and admire the wrong people for the wrong reasons.

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