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Remembering 9/11 | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

working with one of our business partners was installing an electronic security system in the Pentagon window that was struck. 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. He left behind a lovely wife and 3 small children.

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Relationships and Red Flags - A Learning Experience

Building Personal Strength

When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. I’ve been in the learning and development business for over 35 years, and CEO of Performance Support Systems, Inc., The red flag was waving. My friend was bored in retirement and loved dabbling in business. It made him feel young again. since 1987.

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How Microsoft and Netflix Lost their Way

Harvard Business Review

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." The company's stacked-ranking system, for example, required managers to rate employees according to a bell-curve pattern. Microsoft, Eichenwald suggests, has fallen short on both of those counts.

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The Costs of Racial Disparities in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In fact, eliminating racial disparities in health care is vital to pushing the entire health care system toward improving quality while containing costs — so-called value-based care. In 2009 the Institute of Medicine called on all health systems to collect these data to help monitor and remedy disparities in care.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

Additionally, the national postal systems in India and Russia are distrusted, unreliable, and slow. Ozon raised $100 million in 2011 from a consortium of investors, including the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten , to continue to build out infrastructure and expand into new categories. also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ).

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

MBO Partners, for example, predicted in 2011 that by 2020, “70 million people, more than 50 percent of the private workforce, will be independent.” They also sent me a spreadsheet with the numbers for every occupational category going back to 2001. Given that the actual research commissioned by MBO says that there are now about 17.7

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). In the book, he focuses on the importance of “systems thinking” to help transform a business into a “learning organisation.” By Jim Collins. By Daniel H. ” 10.