Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Dave Yarin is a compliance and risk management consultant to senior management and directors of large and mid-size companies, and author of the soon to be published book, Fair Warning – The Information Within. This week, Yarin shared with me insights into compliance and risk management, his forthcoming book, and leadership.

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Compliance Risk Management Management Compliance Officer 87

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

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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Blog Innovation Brand Strategic Planning 413

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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Long-term Short-term Execution Loyalty 195

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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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

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Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Diverse Industry Experience : With Minneapolis’ varied economic landscape, these coaches offer a breadth of knowledge across sectors like healthcare and finance, crucial for navigating different industries. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

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Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

and is an expert on risk, strategy, and finance. The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . Leadership Practices to Watch. What are a few leadership behaviors that destroy organizations by making them less agile? Take a smart risk.

Agility 91

Agility How To Decentralization Morale 91

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. Finance leaders; find out how to stop struggling with time-consuming, inaccurate incentive compensation processes. This 4-page guide outlines 7 ways that automated compensation management software improves your ROI: Streamlined data and workflow processes.

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Resources CFO ROI Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 28, 2020

The trend towards consolidation in industry has become a threat to any business whose leadership has a desire to maintain its own identity and strategic path. If you own, lead, or manage an organization, acknowledge that the primary task of any business is the generation of new customers. Take care of the parasite when it is a pest.

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Industry Organization Real Estate Outsourcing 106

Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Since founding the Human Diver in 2016, Gareth has given risk training to a wide variety of organisations, from oil and gas and construction to pharmaceuticals and software. In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload.

Uncertainty 52

Uncertainty Risk Management Training Learning-by-Doing 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. Strategic Plan includes provisions for refinancing, equity and debt financing. Finance charges are negotiated. When a business loses sight of the customer and what they really need they often run into difficulties. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2011

In my opinion, the following redress is a shortlist of measures Walmart managers might undertake to begin accomplishing this feat: Incorporate reputation risk management into the corporate strategy. Most PR firms only offer cosmetic remedies to firefight reputation threats as they arise.

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Engineering PR How To Reputation 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

In examining what took them so long to react, Stumpf’s comments portray a leadership team that refused to believe the sales fraud could be systemic in a culture such as theirs. This leadership blind spot is the result of misguided reverence for their culture and its ability to inoculate the bank from systemic problems.

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Banking Leadership Committee Ethics 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

In the past 25 years, the size of settlements, fines and penalties for individual corporations found guilty of wrongdoing has escalated from millions of dollars, to tens of millions, to hundreds of millions, to billions. Think Siemens and widespread bribery — about $2 billion.

Finance 11

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

For enterprise risk management, key policies include a statement of risk appetite and explicit risk tolerance levels for critical risks. The company's performance measurement and incentive systems, and the degree to which risk management is considered, will also have a profound impact on employee behavior.

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Management Banking Committee Risk Management 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Every single Chief Risk Officer and every single non-executive director of every single "too big to fail" financial institution should be challenged by shareholders to prove they've got a surer grasp of risk than UBS. Remember that last sentence. Enough overlaps, redundancies and checks should exist to prevent them.

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Banking System Risk Management Review 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. We believe that a next step for investors is to analyze the predictors and drivers of these intangible factors, which means focusing on leadership. But too often, assessments of leadership are haphazard and narrow.

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Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. We asked the management team if we could eliminate the narrow metrics and bonuses, which rewarded only tactical performance, and focus more on the adaptive. This is also true of executives.

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Organization Tactics Call Center Metrics 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

They were the people whose job it is to worry about risks to the on-going organization — legal, risk management, finance, IT, and the brand team. Senior Leadership Follows Through. It wasn't hard to identify the most powerful corporate antibodies.

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Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Savage is the author of The Flaw of Averages (Wiley, 2009) and of an HBR article with the same title , chairman of Vector Economics , Inc (VectorEconomics.com), an adjunct faculty member at Stanford and Cambridge, and a frequent lecturer on risk modeling.

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 16

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It means “process mapping” the myriad business functions; assessing business, legal and ethical risks at various points; mitigating that risk through education, checks and balances; and ensuring that problems are discovered early and handled promptly. Boards Ethics Risk management'

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In its 2013 proxy statement , GE announced that it is searching for director candidates who will bring technology, marketing, finance — and “leadership” experience to the boardroom. They should insist that every director is deeply informed and keenly contributing to the company’s strategy and risk management.

Airlines 8

Airlines CEO Automotive Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

.” Respectfully, one can’t be a hard-core engineer in aviation or automobiles without managing software matters. Always look to the leadership. It’s difficult to believe that either Volkswagen’s technical leadership or software engineers took code reviews seriously. Trust but verify. Yes, mistake happen.

Engineering 8

Engineering Management Software Review 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk. Human leadership defers to demonstrable algorithmic power. Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

The “weaponization of finance” is also high on your list. And America’s willingness to weaponize finance has grown substantially as a consequence. What does business leadership look like in this changed context? Globalization Strategy Risk management' In terms of America being a superpower, U.S.

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Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

This technology knowledge is piled on top of existing expertise nurse executives are expected to have about clinical practice, patient experience, finance, safety, employee relations, process improvement, leadership development, and managing interdisciplinary teams. The list goes on and on.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

In this environment, multinationals that are willing to accept some risk and invest in the country could benefit from first-mover advantages – but only if the new administration follows through with much-needed economic reforms. Zimbabwe’s new leadership faces a challenging task. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

That distinction is not made in most of economics and most of the other cognitive sciences, and people believe that they can model or reduce all uncertainty to risk. What’s the problem with the way that turkey approached risk management? Decision making Managing uncertainty Risk management' But he feeds you.

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Kahneman Banking System 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The immediate emotional response may be to wait until all the details are available and carefully messaged, but it is negligent to withhold information that could help people keep their data and finances safe. It appears Whole Foods had a plan in place as the company reported its most recent breach five days after detection.

Execution 8

Execution Press Release Report Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2011

We're in the midst of an international currency war," Guido Mantega , Brazil's Finance Minister, said last September. No country or bloc seems to want to take on the burden of global leadership. It was clear from both summits that the world is headed toward a new level of political conflict and a breakdown of the economic order.

Politics 15

Politics Gordon Scenario Planning Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2011

This is driven by the successes of product-design leaders like Apple, and a macroeconomic environment that demands better risk management. Find Common Language: Designers don't typically study finance, accounting, or economics so communicating to them in these business contexts usually only adds to confusion.

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Prahalad Budgeting Creativity Fashion 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Both Republicans and Democrats say the most effective board committee is audit/finance.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They devote far more time to internal execution and competitive risks than to external risks that can change the playing field. This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda.

Market Risk 12

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 12