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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. We find ourselves amidst the challenges of living and working in a triple-threat world of a global pandemic, economic instability, and political unrest.

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Why We Should Rename Social Distancing

Skip Prichard

We are doing this in an effort to “flatten the curve” and reverse the massive growth of this deadly global pandemic. Enter the coronavirus, where humans have no immunity and the global economy is stopped in its tracks. The term “social distancing” in this context apparently first appeared in 2003. For the good of all.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Astronaut crews living and working in space experience as a matter of course what many of us experienced unexpectedly during the SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic. Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

My basic feeling on the topic of CEO Term Limits can be summed-up with this quote: “ There exists a season for all things, but decisive, prudent & principled leadership never goes out of season.&# ~Mike Myatt, 2003 With the average CEO tenure hovering at an all time low anyway, who needs CEO Term Limits? But hey, what do I know?

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Do Most Companies Even Try to Innovate Anymore?

Harvard Business Review

The reason for that paradox, as the OECD has warned , is that the productivity gap between firms at the global frontier and those lagging behind has widened. Frontier firms are able to employ the most advanced technologies, which in turn allow them to win market share at the expense of their less productive competitors. billion euro.

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Tony Wagner on “Beyond Testing: 7 Disciplines for Strengthening the Instruction of Children”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Tony Wagner that first appeared in Education Week (November 11, 2003). Don’t let the publication date fool you. If anything, his recommendations are even more urgently needed now than they were then. To read the complete article, please click here. © Tony Wagner * * [.].

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If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People

Harvard Business Review

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.