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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Boards Need To Up Their Game In Terms Of Cognitive Diversity

The Horizons Tracker

These findings illustrate the importance of creating the right environment and culture for diverse teams to operate in. While specialized skills such as prior leadership or finance experience increase the likelihood of appointment, that likelihood is reduced for diverse directors,” the researchers say. Constructive disagreement.

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Some of the first business functionaries were railroad telegraph operators who managed schedules.

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How to Beat Mid-Career Malaise

Harvard Business Review

.” Even if you cannot change your circumstances, “you might be able to change the microenvironment in which you operate.” “Eventually, I joined a company that wrote articles about legal operations and management, but I was incredibly bored and frustrated,” he says. Finances were a consideration.

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The Leadership Vacuum | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A person who is "volunteered" to serve as a committee chair for a professional or trade association may differ in motivation and enthusiasm from one who has joined an organization and volunteered willingly. In fact, even within for-profit organizations, the need for a certain type of leader may change as situations change.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.