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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. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. "Hard to Believe But Impossible to Forget" [link]. Thanks for reminding us all.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Subjective Understanding in the Workplace: Embracing Complexity and Fostering Collective Intelligence

Mike Cardus

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. The Organization of Leadership. Challenging the Notion of Mindsets Let’s elaborate on their viewpoint in response to a question about rejecting mindsets. However, human cognition is far more complex.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

It is hands-down the most popular leadership book of all time. The Speed of Trust (2006) By Stephen M. He demonstrates that the ability to build trust is THE key leadership competency of the new global economy. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). The 7 Habits are: 1) Be proactive.

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The Market Wants Apple to Unveil a Time Machine

Harvard Business Review

What the naysayers are overlooking or ignoring is that one could have made a list for Steve Jobs that would look remarkably similar: Missed earnings: Apple posted a $247 million quarterly loss ( in 2001 , four years after Jobs took over — and the stock went UP in after-hours trading). Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them. .” Great leadership is extraordinarily difficult.