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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

A 2012 Custom Insight survey revealed that 49% of workers cited problems with their direct supervisor as their reason for disengagement. What do our leaders need to be good at in order to drive our business forward and sustain a positive culture that ensures high engagement and maximum contribution? It’s business as usual.

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How GE and IBM are Playing Global Development to Win

Harvard Business Review

Where there is economic growth, there is opportunity, and the companies that can predict where growth will take place are better positioned to take advantage of it. CEO Ginni Rometty took the top job in 2012, and identified Africa as a locus of technological growth early in her tenure. IBM is doing something similar in data analytics.

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Boards Aren’t the Right Way to Monitor Companies

Harvard Business Review

The company provides services in a myriad of industries, such as health care, water treatment, aviation, and financing. Consider that many directors who sit on boards hold senior management positions at other firms, and some sit on the boards of multiple companies.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

As Deere’s strategy has shifted, so have the business-critical roles at the company—from traditional manufacturing positions to analytics and services roles. And a new ecosystem of finance, insurance, energy, infotainment and maintenance services has emerged based on the data-driven, app economy.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Recognize the fragility of your position and don’t concentrate your bets. Today, it is occurring at the level of ecosystems. A misunderstood story.

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The Fastest-Growing Cause for Shareholders Is Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

To gain further insights into the sustainability and financial outcomes associated with shareholder advocacy efforts, Jody Grewal, Aaron Yoon, and I analyzed 2,665 shareholder proposals submitted between 1997 and 2012 in a new paper. We show that this position is supported in cases of financially immaterial ESG proposals.