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HPU: A Case Study in the Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Everything operated as its own unit. What President Qubein does isn ’ t just basic MBWA (Management By Wandering Around, as coined by Tom Peters). That ’ s not to mention a putting green, a sports bar, and a coinless arcade. This was part of the problem at the college. Groups didn ’ t connect. Qubein puts it this way: .

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Learn or Die

Leading Blog

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. In order to maximize our learning we have to be sensitive to and manage our emotions.” Because we have difficulty seeing ourselves and examining our own assumptions, “ learning is a team sport.”

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Vera’s Perspective.

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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other

Harvard Business Review

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. ” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Of course I have.

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The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future

Strategy Driven

They came back in the 1980s as sport utility vehicles. Review case studies and their patterns for repeating themselves. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. The 1980s brought us compact discs, which play at a speed of 78-RPM. Benchmarking.

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Embrace Wild Thinking to Grow Your Business

Skip Prichard

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. Nick Liddell is Director of Consulting and Richard Buchanan is Managing Director and a founding partner.

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