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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. 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.

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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. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan.

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. The bottom line is that I really like him, I just wished he had more new material to share. Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure.

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Perhaps the biggest job killer — and it's the greatest threat to the survival of America's once-vibrant middle class — is the systematic offshoring of our high-tech manufacturing capacity.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. To demonstrate their deep commitment, in December 2011 GE rolled out team leader training.

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20 New Words Every Leader Should Know

Eric Jacobson

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! Sunday, January 16, 2011 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Each year, new words and expressions become bona fide entries into the worlds top English dictionaries. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Crisis Management Failures in Japan's Reactors and the BP Spill

Harvard Business Review

The BP Commission properly criticized the federal government for failing to assume leadership soon enough or to act effectively in coordinating the private sector and public sector (federal, state and local) actors. Neither the Gulf spill nor the problems at the Japan nuclear plants were unthinkable.