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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What I do vehemently dispute is the assertion that a particular nuance is reasonable justification for flawed business logic to prevail. All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive? Sure, it’s your business, your idea, your net worth at risk and certainly nobody else will work as hard as you will, but is this really the right way to evaluate who should be the chief executive? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Wal-Mart Leadership Sweeps $24 Million of Bribes Under the Rug

Coaching Tip

In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. T he former executive gave names, dates and bribe amounts. But some executives saw Mexico as a country where bribery was embedded in the business culture.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. He founded Reputation.com in 2006 with the belief that citizens have the right to control and protect their online reputation and privacy. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Yet these executives also had an outsider role where they worked on an emerging growth business or consciously explored external opportunities, giving them critical distance from the core. He got the top job because of that, and then as CEO he accelerated cloud-business development to make it the company’s primary strategy.

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INTERVIEW: Philip Morris International’s Charles Bendotti on Emerging Contemporary Workplace Culture

HR Digest

Charles Bendotti joined Philip Morris International in Lausanne in 1999 as Business Analyst. From 2000 until 2006, he served in various cross-functional roles in Marketing & Sales and Business Development in different markets of the Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Latin America & Canada Regions.