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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. The Speed of Trust (2006) By Stephen M. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011).

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

It gets that from a 2006 Government Accountability Office report that said there were about 42.6 MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” On Thursday, EMSI published a nice roundup of developments since 2006.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. In a 2001 interview with HBR, UPS’s then CEO Jim Kelly described the growth of the company: “For decades, we’ve been able to grow tremendously simply by expanding our core business geographically.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

Careerbuilder was initially a service that helped companies launch job listings and then managed the inbound application volume. It worked: venture capital poured in and the growth propelled the company to a $436 million sale to Yahoo in 2001. Careerbuilder hit the market in 1996. million cost of the ad. They had revenue, after all.

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

The infamous East German secret police, the Stasi , managed to infiltrate every pay of German life, from factories, to schools, to apartment blocks — the Stasi had eyes and ears everywhere. There has been a dramatic shift in mentality, and it doesn''t take much to work out the date on which this happened: September 11, 2001.

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