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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Fear is dead as a management tool. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Barack Obama and particularly his administration is anti-business. The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America. The best idea should win. More candor can only be good for business. You can’t protect jobs with walls.

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Sustainable Leadership and Organizations: The Ideas of Martin Seligman

Michael Lee Stallard

2 Comments so far william czander on May 31st, 2010 Happiness coaches are part of the great conspiracy that began some 20 years ago when CEO’s , hedge fund managers and bankers discovered if they outsourced jobs to China and India it would increase the bottom line and they would all get rich. Remember “smile or your fired”. I wonder why?

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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What's Next When Offshoring Isn't so Cheap?

Harvard Business Review

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human." Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

You may recall that NUMMI was a joint venture of Toyota and GM, where Toyota took over one of GM''s worst plants and turned it around with a new management system — using many of the same people and the same unions. manufacturing, management had to take a big swing. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

In 2009, Michael Mandel, former Chief Economist for Businessweek and founder of a key economics blog , presented new research in a cover story called " The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S. " innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Here's what I've been thinking.