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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Well actually, no it’s not. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity.

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What CEOs Have Learned About Social Media

Harvard Business Review

The results, published in “ Socializing Your CEO: From Marginal to Mainstream ,” show that CEO sociability has more than doubled since we began tracking the social activities of chief executives in 2010, when only 36% of CEOs were social. Corporate video is fast becoming the new normal for CEOs. NextGreatLeader.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? Brook Manville consults to socially-minded enterprises on matters of strategy and organizational development. In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear?

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks. (We