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Lead by Providing Bearing, Room, and Backup

Lead Change Blog

Theunissen and Stubbé (2011) provide an excellent strategy: leading by providing bearing, room, and backup. Especially when you want to transform to a network organization (yet also in an “ordinary” organization), developing scenarios is a way to deepen the bearing a team should aspire to. Learning, in turn, stimulates mastery.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. Renewables are growing faster than any other kindof of power generation, with more solar panels installed in the U.S.

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Strengthen Your Workforce Through Volunteer Programs

Harvard Business Review

Data from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) shows that the vast majority of college graduates want to amplify their commitment to good causes through their employer. Originally offered to just a few departments, the program is now company-wide, with more than half of all employees participating in 2011.

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Sustainability in Financial Services Is Not About Being Green

Harvard Business Review

Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". As a result, institutions in the financial services sector risk losing their license to operate — the permission to conduct business granted by customers, partners, and government. Finance Sustainability SASB'