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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

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In the most recent turn of events, Blackstone Group withdrew its bid for the company after making the determination that Dell’s future and the PC industry looks bleak. It is essentially impossible not to and this is particularly true in the ever-changing and evolving technology industry. years as of 2011 from 10 years in 2000.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

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Impact on their industry and in the broader communities they serve. 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. Beth is another former operator who really understands the business and their 37,000+ workforce.

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Loyalty vs. Tenure | N2Growth Blog

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These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Here’s an example…Even in this day and age, it is still not that uncommon to find large corporations and government agencies with IT silos built upon mainframe computing solutions.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

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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.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

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The mechanistic world of the industrial age continues to have a grip on our belief system. Thanks for sharing Tom. susanmazza Excellent and important distinction Mike. I think we focus on efficiency because that gives us "permission" to focus on the things that we can control.

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Leaders Returning to their First Love

Great Leadership By Dan

Despite a natural tension between the front of the house and the kitchen (in other industries, that tension is between operations and sales) his retention rate is unusually high, over 80% of employees have been there over five years. So he knows a range of restaurant offerings.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.