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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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A Friend’s Support Can Make Women Better Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But for women in the workplace—especially those in low-income developing countries—it can be harder to find other successful women to learn from and collaborate with, since social norms often restrict their mobility and opportunities to interact with one another. vegetable vendors, tailors, etc.) embroidery, rolling bidis, etc.).

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. Despite these gloomy headlines, three developments in the sector give us hope that the revolution in clean energy production is far from dead: 1.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. Founded in the 1930s, Lego developed a repeatable model that allowed it to grow for decades. Enter Andreas Kaufmann, an Austrian investor who acquired a controlling stake in Leica in 2006.

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What Gamers Can Teach Us About Fraud

Harvard Business Review

Valve Corporation's game platform, Steam , developed an anti-cheat solution in 2006 after it detected 10,000 cheating attempts in a single week. Not only does the game developer lose revenue, it loses additional players who get frustrated when they don't advance in the game as quickly as their cheating counterparts.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

The 2006 ruling of Judge Margaret McVeigh of the New Jersey Superior Court highlights the root of the problem with exclusivity in partnership contracts: Amazon.com did not want a ten year agreement. Advanced practitioners of partnership strategies have developed approaches that work for them and may work for you.