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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion. Our Freedom. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I have worked for Visionary leaders (or were they just managers?) Covey “It’s not the will to win that matters…everyone has that. Communicating the reasons for the direction. Then leading down that road and following up to make sure everyone is present. The company pays dearly when this happens.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

To overcome these problems, many companies are now using or experimenting with "idea management" software applications. ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. In early 2010, Avery Dennison, a $6.5

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

Mike Cardus

As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. By implementing some strategies, managers can embrace the fluid nature of subjective understanding and leverage collective intelligence within their organizations. Psychological Bulletin, 112(3), 369–376. Jossey-Bass. Stacey, R. Griffin, D.,

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Research: Women Ask for Raises as Often as Men, but Are Less Likely to Get Them

Harvard Business Review

We also examined the idea that women act less assertively in negotiations for fear of upsetting the relationship with their boss or colleagues (some evidence for this has been found in previous research, notably by Emily Amanatullah and Michael Morris in a 2010 paper ). We found no support for this in our data.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million.

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The HBR Approach to Failure

Harvard Business Review

To set about answering that question, we ran a semantic clustering analysis on a sample of articles from HBR's archives over the course of several periods between 1990 and 2010 (the time period when the HBR online archive is the most complete). Our research also indicated that 2000-2003 seems to be a time when failure fatigue had set in.