N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Leadership involves uncertainty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 15, 2016

Guest post from Bobby Martin : There comes a time for every founder of a rapidly growing entrepreneurial business when you have to decide if you can be the one to both lead and manage into and through this growth stage. You need to become primarily a manager. Learn how to manage the complexities of running a fast-growth firm.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Brad Jacobs ’ book provides you a treasure trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

Internet traffic and was the first Internet IPO. But Third Wave entrepreneurs will need to have a special kind of perseverance in a changing world to manage tensions. If you want to go far in the Third Wave, you must go together.” * * * Like us on Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Chartered Management Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Article: Data vs gut: the great decision making debate Written by David Waller Tuesday 19 September 2023 Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email The idea of instinctual management is an attractive one. But as the world becomes more data-driven, which should you be prioritising when making decisions?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2015

In all honesty, the skills listing sort of tells the story of my career path over the last six years or so as managed care (my previous professional field) fell farther down the list while blogging, social media, and editing climbed higher. One speaker, however, stayed in my mind for a different reason.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 27, 2024

Brad Jacobs’ new book provides you a treasure-trove of leadership lessons from a man with more than four decades of CEO and serial entrepreneur experience. So, even if you don’t envision yourself wanting to earn a billion dollars, don’t pass up reading Jacob’s, How To Make A Few Billion Dollars.

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Decker Communication

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Those were the words of the leader of one of our multi-billion dollar clients, which accents the amazing changes in leadership over the last 40 years. . As we close out the decade, let’s look at how leadership has become decentralized and team-oriented. The Days of Centralized Leadership in Business are Long Gone. .

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL Don’t Kill It!

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The pandemic brought many problems facing the business community to the forefront of people’s consciousness – owners, leadership, managers, and employees. As a result, the traditional outlook of having people work long hours and perform tasks without asking questions met a severe roadblock.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This blog post is the first of a two-part series on transformational growth and disruptive change by my dear friend Mark Thompson for the AMA (American Management Association). It’s not an imposition on management to hear out all these diverse ideas; it’s not a separate HR “program” to be tolerated. Dear readers! Version 2.0

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2012

” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. “ Structural cohesion is an employee-generated synergy — essentially a close-knit, high-energy culture — that propels the company forward.”

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 13, 2022

The performance management process — and conducting performance reviews in particular — is often a source of frustration for leaders.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 1, 2022

In absolutely no strategic or prioritized sequence whatsoever, here are a few reflections that defined this year’s ATD experience for us at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS): Connections, Discussions, Ideas and Renewal. appeared first on Situational Leadership® Management and Leadership Training. Without question!

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

People often join a network because they’re inspired by its purpose, whether that’s to improve a community’s school lunch program or protect a sprawling wildlife preserve. But people stay for a very different reason: who is involved. Which means who is part of a network is just as important, if not more important, than why […].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

The number of listed firms can decline because of three developments: 1) bankruptcy, failure, or closure of listed firms, 2) delisting of firms going private or acquired, and 3) decrease in number of initial public offerings (IPOs). Furthermore, doing IPO is not only an expensive proposition, it also consumes managerial time and energy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. The typical enterprise software startup that IPOs is at least 7 years old (to say nothing of those that try and fail). In the year before Google IPO’d, it did about $962 million in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Between now and the IPO, every bit of information about the company’s finances and other metrics will be closely scrutinized. Research shows that firms’ management teams influence the success of their IPOs. Senior Management & the Board of Directors. Is Wall Street a Good Judge of Leadership?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Just as striking is her description of Uber’s HR organization, which advised Fowler that because the manager in question was a high performer, HR did not feel comfortable punishing him. Today Uber is no startup, with 11,000 employees, not including its drivers, and a 2017 market value at IPO that is estimated as $28–$70 billion.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2011

That's why it's so easy to focus on the magazine covers, the IPO wealth, the personal narratives. Leadership is about service," he told an interviewer last year , "and you can't lead if you can't follow. This is the age of the maverick, the startup, and, dare I say it, as the cofounder of Fast Company , "The Brand Called You."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2019

Youngme, Felix, and Mihir discuss why so many high-profile companies (Uber, Lyft, Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack, Postmates, Casper, Peloton, etc.) are planning to go public this year. They also debate whether it’s acceptable for bosses to throw temper tantrums at work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. Norwegian made a promising first move under its new management: It began offering guests what it called Freestyle Cruising, which provided multiple dining and entertainment venues with flexible times, as opposed to the industry model at the time of single venues with set times.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2012

If you haven't been invited to the White House or launched an IPO or made the cover of a national newsmagazine before age 35, there's absolutely no reason to believe you can't still accomplish those goals later in life. And as managers and leaders, it behooves us to be open-minded and show similar faith in our employees. "I

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 19, 2022

A tall, thin man in his late fifties approached me after my closing keynote for a manufacturing association conference on how manufacturing leaders can avoid business disasters. He looked distraught and agitated. I hoped he wasn’t angry with something I said. Mark introduced himself and asked me to tell him more about one of the […].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2012

Update: Politico's Ben White did have a brief testimonial from hedge fund manager and Goldman client Whitney Tilson this morning.) But Goldman succeeded in managing its risks before and during the financial crisis better than almost any other financial firm.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

.” Pandas look innocent, but their powerful jaws deliver a bite stronger than a jaguars’ Pandas can be painfully costly to individuals whose careers stall for reasons unbeknownst to them and to organizations and managers unable to develop talented leaders to their full potential.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

This occurs when the founder’s leadership skills hit a limit, inhibiting the ability of the company to go to the next stage. In February Kalanick wrote an internal memo indicating that he needed more leadership help, having reached the limits of his ability, hence this week’s announcement of a new CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

For example, as it grew, Facebook found that its early “move fast and break things” culture had to be funneled into focused technical teams and product groups to make its product development process faster and less erratic, and for it to have a chance of meeting the demands of its new public shareholders following its IPO.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

Since the last financial crisis, many new regulations have been implemented to protect shareholders, increasing the pressure on management to meet earnings expectations by prioritizing short-term over long-term. For many consumer tech companies, this post-IPO pressure on financial returns is too high.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2011

Now, I'm excited by the rise of Facebook, the IPO of LinkedIn, and all the latest successes from the startup world. But on the broader point, I think we're in for a major correction. It's worth noting that the debate over this post takes place during IBM's centennial celebration. It's great stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2011

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. They think.Danny.was.supposed to be.,"

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. Companies can disclose these items in the Management discussion and analysis section of their annual report.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In classic microeconomic terms, where firms previously focused on how best to manage transaction costs, platforms require top management to creatively cultivate transaction surplus. How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? That’s platform leadership.

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