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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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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. Can you have it all? I recently interviewed restaurant co-owner Rob Evans.

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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The Mismanagement of Change (And 5 Ways to Get It Right)

Lead Change Blog

1 This feeling of incongruity can be deeply unsettling, for example, when men set off explosives at a marathon race or open fire in a movie theater; that is not how our world is supposed to operate. The Meaning Maintenance Model: On the Coherence of Social Motivations (2006), Personality and Social Psychology Review, vol. 2, 88–110.

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Indeed, in the United States, data reveals that entrepreneurship has declined by around half between 1978 and 2011, with this especially pronounced among the share of young firms, as employment at young firms fell from nearly half of the workforce in the 1980s to just 39% by 2006. Hype run wild. in 1985 to just 5.3%

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

Different operational skills. Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Similar work habits.

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After a Merger, Don’t Let “Us vs. Them” Thinking Ruin the Company

Harvard Business Review

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.