N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

It is my opinion that when you start to define your personal success by the value you add to the lives of others you have arrived as a mature human being who possesses true influence and has become a person of significance. I concur that it is of no use to sit in judgment of others, and applaud you for the maturity that position displays.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In mature markets, banks are rushing to play catch up with this kind of mobile service before smart new competitors outwit them. Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. Finance should by definition be a risk-averse business.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Only the mature and those who have a measure of success truly learn the niche to proper branding. Thanks Deborah. pastortom2022 Great post Mike and especially to many of us who have not experienced a great level of success or notoriety. Many of us are victims of our own over-branding and actually have little to offer.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Their background in operations of a business often makes them more suitable to do the detail work. VC can often: 1 - Provide more money and more follow on rounds of financing. 3 - Provide more mature views on business, exits, growth etc. This coaching can add significantly to the value. 3 - Be more in the detail of the business.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Rather asking for help is a sign of maturity as a leader. My clients hire me not solely on the basis of what I can personally do for them in a vacuum, but rather what the collective influence of my network and resources can accomplish for them when I operate outside of my own personal bubble.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

All great leaders develop a sense of their blind-spots and weaknesses as they mature. Most of us when going through our academic years simply aren't experienced enough to understand the gravity and totality of what we're being fed, or not fed as the case may be…Thanks as always for sharing Dan.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

He is extremely mature emotionally and described his ability to separate from the emotions of a situation. link] mikemyatt Hi George: Agreed with one caveat, which is the ability to separate yourself from emotions. I was actually having this conversation last night with a man that I hold in high regard.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems. To run the numerous apps associated with leadership, we must update our personal operating system regularly.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator? The message is not about the messenger; it has nothing to do with messenger; it is however 100% about meeting the needs and the expectations of those you’re communicating with.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

It sounds like a supportive, mature environment you are describing; where ego isn't the main thing but doing the right thing is. Everything I know of Dan indicates he is a mature, supportive leader with his ego in check. silence) … great then lets move forward. That's consensus."

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures. His concepts on social media modeling exemplify the best in blending of new media and common sense. link] Allan W. Your comment got me thinking, which grew long enough to warrant a blog post: [link].

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

These eBooks apply the lessons of Defy Gravity to specific business situations, for example, turn-arounds, small businesses and mature companies that have leveled off. I’m delivering a series of webinars and training solutions for Defy Gravity, plus a series of eBooks that will drill down into specific focus areas.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Obviously, in running a company, you have to think about the big picture – where you want your business to go – in addition to attending to day-to-day operations. Because, as Chris points out, your ultimate goal as a parent is to: “Raise a dependable, conscientious, reliable, trustworthy, sensible, self-sufficient, un-entitled, mature adult.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

Once the infrastructure is in place, the operational expenses are considerably lower. Furthermore, as the technology matures and scales up, economies of scale drive down costs, making renewables increasingly competitive with, and often cheaper than, traditional energy sources.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

You should definitely look for available options of personal financing if you are ready to take risks and comfortable with the potentially bad consequences. For instance, you can ask for some debt financing and then pay it back with interest, or simply you add them on as partners in your business. Or Venture Capitalists.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

To make a success of digital transformation, effective leadership and a mature organization culture is required. The most challenging decision had to be leaving the finance organization to accept a position to lead a newly formed enterprise operational function.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Investing is one way of “beefing up” your finances, so to speak. Make your investments while operating in autopilot mode with Wealth Simple and you can always keep track of your investments made versus profits earned. Parents may purchase stocks and bonds for their minor children, turning them over when they mature.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2011

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. Finally, reaching profitability quickly ensures that when outside financing dries up, the venture can succeed on its own.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

With maturity comes the quest to learn more, understand the factors and apply newly acquired insights to higher purposes. Going ‘outside the box’ to shift perceptions enables any company to think, plan and operate in productive new ways. Learning, experiencing and evaluating is the best process to achieve lasting success.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 For project purchases, such as printing, graphic production, video production and materials creation, consultants customarily mark up slightly, to cover bank financing and handling costs.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

Companies with greater diversity not only have higher retention, but they have higher revenues and operating results, as well as higher brand recognition in their marketplaces. As these technologies mature at record-speed, they will only be as powerful as the training available to help employees understand how to deploy, use and manage them.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties. As Pete Ramstad and I note in Beyond HR , leaders often have far better developed frameworks for the value proposition of the finance function than for HR.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

About one quarter of these CCOs formerly held operations positions. Our operations departments were focused on our products and services, our finance teams on collecting payments, and our sales and business development teams on meeting short-term revenue goals. They have power and influence resources.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? Did the rating agencies understand that the acceleration of debt maturities brought on by a downgrade could cause a bankruptcy? Ethics Failure Finance'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?" For that reason, the "Lean" mentality is one of the most powerful tools in the innovator''s arsenal — in startups and mature corporations alike.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

in 2012 , the outlook is far healthier than in many mature markets of Europe and North America, fueling an ongoing war for talent. That way, when you come back, it's not a strange place," notes a female general manager at a finance multinational. Even though the torrid growth of the past decade cooled to 5.3%

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. What’s our role in the value chain: facilitator, fleet operator, driverless “driver” supplier (versus vehicle manufacturer)? How it will impact business, industry, and society.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Given that those companies were all venture-financed and emerged from Silicon Valley, you might assume that the key ingredients that have ensured their success were cutting-edge technologies, digital platforms, and customer bases that were chiefly made up of digital natives.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

In any case, you don’t need outside investors till your experiments are somewhat mature. The company has 10,000 customers for their helpdesk software-as-a-service product, and thus far, $6 million in financing. Large operations in Arizona, Utah, or India would work in your favor, not against. Costs are low.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In too many cases, other countries are securing new industries by taking advantage of promising results from America’s federal research investments: maturing innovations that were seeded in U.S. SMMs can play crucial roles in innovation by engaging in partnerships with universities and other laboratories to help mature technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Los Angeles lawyer-turned-entrepreneur is the co-founder and CEO of Business Talent Group (BTG), which pairs high-end talent with high-end expertise in areas such as finance, operations, and mergers and acquisitions at companies such as Pfizer, Kraft, and MasterCard. ” This lines up with EY’s recent findings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The superstars tend to be more involved in global flows of trade and finance, more digitally mature, and they dominate the lists of the most valued companies, the most valued brands, the most desirable places to work, and the most innovative companies. The link between superstar firms, sectors, and cities is complex.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

They were bold and brash and injected fresh new ideas that challenged existing policy and practice in many quarters of the Department of Defense administration (such as finance, human resources, procurement, and supply chain processes). The Business Transformation Agency was populated by people brought in from the commercial sector.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

However, this varies dramatically based on organizations’ digital maturity. So, how are more digitally mature IT departments leading the way in transformation? In the past, IT just provided direct services to the operating groups, according to Chief Information Officer Hector Calva.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space.

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