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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. I Think Not.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

She faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). Human Resource Champions (1996). It is one of the most popular and frequently discussed books in HR. 2) Fear of conflict. By Daniel H.

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Investing In People Builds Resilience Against The Covid Recession

The Horizons Tracker

It’s prompted economists to predict a recession that is twice as deep as that experienced after the 2008 financial crisis. Already we’ve seen retail demand falling to unprecedented levels, with reduced mobility also causing demand for oil to plummet.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

I knew about Deming, I had read part of Out of the Crisis during my university classes, so I started to think he was exactly what I was looking for. They are experts on something but they don’t care much about the structure of the company, they lack the knowledge about planning, accounting or even human resources.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Too much efficiency can be just as deadly as too little, if it leaves an organization unable to cope with change — either because it's too fragile to survive a crisis or too rigid to adapt to industry changes. Everyone knows the story. This was not a new lesson, at least to the armed forces.