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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you. . 

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As one example; if you are a manufacturing organization, innovation in your core could include new and improved materials, new techniques, novel approaches to supply chain management etc. Innovation, improvements, or these 'Next' Practices should be looked at in all facets of your business value proposition, your core.

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Timberland’s CEO on Deciding to Engage with Angry Activists

Harvard Business Review

As a CEO, I’m used to getting angry e-mails. The lack of traceability in our materials supply chain is almost archaic. What would make it impossible, they said, was if the companies further up the supply chain—the cattle ranchers and the slaughterhouses—were unwilling to go along with it. But these were different.

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CEOs Sometimes Need Outside Help

Harvard Business Review

Why would the CEO of a huge corporation with vast capabilities need to look elsewhere for assistance? If outside help is truly needed, doesn’t that say something pretty negative about the CEO’s own staff and existing supply chain? Collaboration Leadership' Outside the organization? As Faaiza Rashid, Amy C.

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Why CSR's Future Matters to Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The Corporate Leadership Council reports that highly engaged organizations have the potential to reduce staff turnover by 87% and improve performance by 20%. According to a PRWeek/Barkely PR Cause Survey in 2010, two-thirds of brands now engage in cause marketing, up from 58% in 2009. Marketing experts agree.

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Three Traps Facing New Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. They rendered the global power of the company useless because they could no longer leverage Nestle's massive supply chain or brands. How about you?