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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. Finally, carve out innovation incubators that will serve not only to build new businesses but also to grow general managers.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

These countries have excellent research systems with a high number of influential scientific publications, relatively high levels of government and business R&D expenditure and venture capital financing, strong public-private collaborations, and a wealth of intellectual assets in patent applications and community trademarks.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. Does the TFA career experience seem to make its alumni more likely to become educational entrepreneurs? The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.