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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. For members of the 2020 Top CHRO List, Diversity and Inclusion are a cornerstone of their work, not an afterthought. Find a strong and well positioned employer brand.

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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business Review

It turns out that the word “innovation” is not a Harry Potter-esque magical incantation that, once spoken, renders companies more inventive, creative, and entrepreneurial. The culture at large companies is typically built on a foundation of operational excellence and predictable growth.

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Transforming Diversity Hiring to Build an Inclusive and Equitable Organization

HR Digest

Over the last year, a perfect storm of events caused nearly every leader — if they weren’t already — to intentionally start to address the lack of diversity in their organization. Diversity Sourcing System – we need to cast a much widener net to underrepresented networks across many dimensions of diversity.

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

In fact, 94% of the senior executives who responded to a recent global survey conducted by our firm, Strategy&, said that growth was a priority for their companies. A few companies, however, do succeed in growing year after year. In short, growth comes from the entire company, not from any particular product or service.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.

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Why Top Management Should Listen to Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

And the odds that your company, or industry, may find itself targeted by an activist are going up. Many activists are asking some very tough and fundamental strategic questions: Are the company’s investments in the right place? Is the company’s portfolio too diverse? What is our company great at doing?

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution.