N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. So why do so many established and often well managed companies struggle with disruptive innovation?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. It takes all of us!

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Growth Opportunities are More Difficult to Come Across Working independently through contracts and job platforms means that growing in your career is largely left to you. Still, working in the gig economy limits your network because you have no workplace to socialize at or seniors and mentors to learn from.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

While entrepreneurs are clearly talented innovators and visionaries, most first time entrepreneurs don’t have prior experience as a CEO. I believe great leaders will mentor and coach subordinates for the purpose of identifying and developing other great leaders. That’s about it. I Think Not.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Bob is the Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit, an innovation incubator and consultancy specializing in demand-side innovation. An engineer, designer, serial entrepreneur, investor, and researcher, he has developed 1,000+ products/services and has collaborated with Clay Christensen at HBS for more than 15 years.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

What if the person capable of hatching that innovation is, today, a middle-school girl in a village in Ecuador? If we could only put the same level of resources into inspiring girls in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that we do into discovering America's Next Top Model , the chance wouldn't seem so remote.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

How will we stay connected to the life-long friends and mentors that we’ve made here? Brown has shown us that the very engine of discovery and insight, of progress and justice, of our future and the world's is our fearless, relentless questioning. ” Even though she went to Columbia, she’s right.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

How will we stay connected to the life-long friends and mentors that we’ve made here? Brown has shown us that the very engine of discovery and insight, of progress and justice, of our future and the world's is our fearless, relentless questioning. ” Even though she went to Columbia, she’s right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

One of the most common efforts has been to create affinity groups within the company for people sharing a specific identity (a “Women’s Leadership Network” for example) so that participants can mentor each other and discuss ways to overcome the shared challenges they face.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

Although she was poor in resources, she possessed the innovation mindset shared by many game changers: they see and act on opportunities , use "and" thinking to resolve tough dilemmas and break through compromises, and employ their resourcefulness to power through obstacles. Her daughter is now a teacher and her son an engineer.)

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

Evidence shows that women in academic medicine experience greater challenges finding mentors and sponsors than men, and that this gap likely contributes to career disparities. found that 30% of women (compared to 4% of men) had experienced sexual harassment from a superior or colleague in their careers. Career flexibility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Running design sprints. Feature prioritization and roadmap planning.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2012

In fact, at GE top executives spend as much as 40% of their time identifying and mentoring their replacements. Some of the most innovative companies in the country put a priority on free or flexible time. The best mentors provide quality feedback that's timely, genuine, and focused on desired behaviors. Here's how to start: 1.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

The presence of these women would imply that science, engineering, and technology (SET) industries welcome women. Even as these women blast open doors and blaze trails, new research (PDF) from the Center for Talent Innovation shows that U.S. Brazil, China, and India are committed to their work and their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2013

with its expanding array of opportunities, and "Old India," whose traditions persist in shaping — and sometimes limiting — women's career ambitions. Dissatisfaction with their rate of career progression drives almost as many women out of the workforce as childcare. 49% in Germany, and 36% in Japan.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 16, 2019

One of the pioneers of challenge-based innovation has been the XPRIZE, and I wrote recently about the growing number of student teams that are participating in competitions. Each team has a faculty member to support and mentor the teams, which average around 50 students from a mixture of disciplines. Finding heroes. Coding for success.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 1, 2014

Fuse Corps does this by matching business professionals and entrepreneurs who have an average of 15 years of experience with an innovative mayor, governor, or community leader in a one-year fellowship to help cities and states implement breakthrough projects. Cities and states are becoming the R&D engines of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

When employees are busy and disengaged, businesses are missing out on cost-saving ideas and innovations that could be developed from the bottom up. Few managers are introduced to the concept of service-based leadership during their careers. Even business schools that tout leadership development rarely include it in their curricula.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

The Management Innovation Exchange is currently running a competition to "hack" the human resources function to enable organizational adaptability. As IT steps up as mentor, it needs to mature as well. If you are applying IT to the business, then by definition you have to be aligned with the business, or fail.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. One mill girl, Lucy Larcom, studied German and botany, and published poems in the mill girls’ literary magazine during the 1830s and 1840s; she came to the attention of John Greenleaf Whittier, who became her mentor.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I arrived, I found myself among some intimidatingly accomplished people — a PhD chemist/engineer/professor, a laureate-quality poet, and activists behind some of the most successful social movements of our time. I made my way uncomfortably to my seat, aware that I was one of the youngest and least experienced judges in the room.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 7, 2016

Business drivers examined include: Building high-performance cultures; engaging employees; cultivating a customer-focused culture; creating alignment and accountability; enhancing organizational talent; building strategic partnerships and relationships, driving process innovation and driving efficiency. Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

These are nuclear engineers, hydraulic and electrical systems workers, and the rich ecosystem of people who make and run what we use everyday — from life-saving tubing hook-ups in hospital rooms to the bridges we cross. A key component: mentoring and cross training between new entrants and greyer talent.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

This kind of assignment has to get done by someone , but it isn’t going to make that person’s career. While these initiatives sound impressive, they’re usually not tied to revenue goals, so they are far less likely to result in a promotion than, say, chairing an innovation or digital transformation committee.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2017

Numerical predictions offer a range of benefits for large, innovation organizations like Twitch. Our lead engineer Jixuan Wang made his own prediction: he was 70% confident he could build the feature in eight engineering weeks. Our engineer was at 75% confidence we’d hit our goal, and our lead from partnerships was at 70%.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 24, 2012

Lots of people are planning to work beyond the traditional retirement age, and many of them are looking to make a career change (moving into a not-for-profit, etc…). The idea is that leadership development needs are very different depending on your age and where you are in your career. Senior leadership development. Virtual reality.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

Nine percent of working moms clock more than 50 hours a week during the key years of career advancement: ages 25 to 44. I worshipped my mentor," said one woman. Okay, okay, it might boost productivity," was the argument, "but it inhibits innovation." It''s not innovation. Most guess around 50 percent. It''s identity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2018

If the hum of your career has become so deafening that you struggle to hear those other parts of your life, you’re not alone. For example, a participant a different study explained that all of his various jobs—IT engineer, journalist, and entertainer—converged around the skill of writing.

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