N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

But today, it is entirely different when you consider transforming your company from old methodologies to emerging technologies; you need skillsets that you won’t necessarily find within the organization talent pool you currently have. From a diversity of experience perspective, I think the U.S. has it right.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Joy Fitzgerald, Chief DEI Officer, UnitedHealthGroup, stresses how diversity and inclusion initiatives can strengthen a workforce. What experiences inspired you to do better in terms of global diversity initiatives? This is my third time in the role of Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 17, 2020

For example: Accounting and finance: Around 65,000 job postings in the 12 months previous for accounts payable/receivable clerks, and 55,000 for financial analysts. And with so many return-to-work models to consider, that means: Researching, evaluating and implementing human capital plans for returning to work. Down just 2.6

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2013

According to the Harvard Business Review , English is now the global language of business, and more and more multinational companies are mandating English as the common corporate language. The non-native speakers in your company may perform their daily responsibilities well. But what else do their jobs require?

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HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

Having joined the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and information, she is now out to raise the bar for leadership talent across the organization. Can you tell The HR Digest readers more about these programs and how they promote change within the company in practical terms?

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Of course, human resource professionals came into their roles with a higher calling: cultivating the company’s human capital, its employees. The times have caught up with the nobler side of human resources. Create a diversity plan in your hiring process. Advertise your job openings to marginalized groups.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

One company that has managed to thrive off of the beaten track is UK Internet company Zen Internet, who were created in the Lancashire town of Rochdale in 1995 by Richard Tang with a desire not only to provide high speed Internet to the nation, but to do business in the right way. An entrepreneurial beacon.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

Managers tend to govern over process, data, projects and products while leaders tend to utilize human capital to navigate these same areas and participate as part of the process. Connecting with these new resources is paramount to successfully leading and earning the trust and respect of these key company assets.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 30, 2019

One company that’s attempting to take a proactive approach is the technology company Adobe, who provide employees with access to a learning fund that reimburses the cost of courses and other forms of professional development. A proactive approach. Few have done so with the gusto of tech startup C3.ai, Speed of learning.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2020

Similar tales emerge from teams as diverse as Bill Clinton’s election team, the early Apple team and even the scientists that converged on Los Alamos to create the atomic bomb. A good example was the knitting group that met in the library and made a lot of scarves,” the researchers explain.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

How to create positive change in company diversity? What is the role of HR in driving the diversity agenda? These were only some of the topics The HR Digest discussed with Shannon Bagley, Executive Vice President – Human Resources at Centene Corporation.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

These challenges meant that they overwhelmingly elected to go to larger companies that can help them with the bureaucracy, rather than the startup where their talents might be better put to use. In a world of machines and algorithms, competitive advantage will come from the exchange of human capital.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

Innovation must be seen as an investment in the human capital and capabilities of customers. For example, customers become much more valuable when “they buy more of our stuff” or “they pay more” or “they reliably come back to us” or “they’re loyal to our brand.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

For example, an introvert may want to try her hand at a sales role, where research shows that extraverts are more likely to perform well. Apple and Microsoft are good examples of companies keeping their leaders in learning mode. Stretch assignments were used 76% of the time by the companies surveyed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

It augers great benefits to leaders that have a strong human capital story to tell with numbers, and poses dilemmas for those not prepared to measure their human capital and organizational capability more precisely. Some of the most important insights will come from human capital reporting. Why the interest?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources. Insight Center. Putting Data to Work.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Too many companies miss out on enormous opportunities for growth and profitability because they don’t appreciate the impact of excellent talent management. Now, research by Gallup clarifies the relationship between firms’ use of four specific human capital practices and their revenue growth. The answer was a resounding yes.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Too many companies miss out on enormous opportunities for growth and profitability because they don’t appreciate the impact of excellent talent management. Now, research by Gallup clarifies the relationship between firms’ use of four specific human capital practices and their revenue growth. The answer was a resounding yes.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Only 15% of organizations succeed in their attempts to improve company culture. His book CULTURE RENOVATION: 18 Leadership Actions to Build an Unshakeable Company contains Kevin’s extensive experience and research into turning cultures into agile, innovative, and resilient powerhouses. Leadership Actions to Renovate Your Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

What I didn't expect was to learn lessons about organizational strategy and behavior that would inform my work as a human capital consultant. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on. Risk is also tempered by diversity in a beehive. It's: "Don't get too big."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

“People pick up on bias when they see opportunities handed to colleagues for unclear reasons,” Kate Burke, Head of Human Capital and Chief Talent Officer at AllianceBernstein , advised us. For example, let’s say an individual reports that she is driven to advance. Across the board, 9.2% vs. 4.3%).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? Their application of diverse business skills to the role. It was vehicle for changing the growth trajectory of the company.” Steven Moore for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Still, less than one third of people with mental illness get the treatment they need, and this comes at a cost — to people and to companies. In the twenty-first century, human capital is the most valuable resource in our economy. Our company has 47,000 US employees, and 250,000 globally. We want to help.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2011

For example, a female vice president at a major multinational was criticized by a boss for her Anglo-Indian accent, which he found "too stuffy." Smart companies need to look for other solutions that teach their non-Asian managers to recognize the richness they can contribute. Goldman Sachs , for example, realized this. "It

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As a result, more companies are being valued based on their current earnings than on their growth potential. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. First, they must secure the prosperity of their own companies.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

The United States is experiencing a human capital crisis at all levels of government. Police departments don’t have the same tools available to them that private companies might — no signing bonuses, limited flexibility in job descriptions, and a multitude of other restrictions. Drew Angerer/Staff/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Executives who can manage effectively while respecting employees’ and customers’ multifaceted diversity are the ones who thrive and create value for their companies. Finding leaders who are up to the task has proven challenging for many companies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

No one can say for sure how to get on a corporate board, but many people point to two routes: the first is to break into the "right" network and the second is to seek a progression of board seats that begins with, for example, a seat on a not-for-profit or community board and eventually results in appointment to a corporate board.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” Human capital champions in higher education and industry typically prize knowledge over skills. It is more “box ticking” than human capital investment. Webb wonders whether most companies are serious about what training can and should mean. Lead by Example.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

For example, in 2010, Microsoft —one of the world’s best product innovators for the last two decades — launched a social phone called Kin. To achieve sustainable growth, companies must better integrate product innovation with business model, process, and service innovations. The innovation mindset isn’t just about product innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

For example, a recent report by Deloitte, based on data from over 2,500 business and HR leaders from 90+ countries, shows that employers around the world are poorly prepared to tackle key human capital challenges, such as “leadership, retention and engagement, the reskilling of HR, and talent acquisition.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Ellen Kullman (DuPont), Maria das Graças Silva Foster (Petrobras), and Chua Sock Koong (Singapore Telecommunications) lead three of the most powerful companies in the world. For many women in the developing world, a better approach may be to gain employment in existing companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

Over the past decade of leading human capital, diversity, and retention efforts in several demanding U.S.-based Put the number for your company’s backup child care center into your phone, and time how long it takes to drive there. So have needed backups ready, and, more important, rehearse them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They want to believe that companies have better things to do with their money than change what appear to be stable and well-functioning systems. What were the areas of focus — technical, process, human capital, risk? CEOs don't want to hear that. Was a risk assessment presented? What actions were taken? Hold the calls.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

For example, Bosch recently introduced the Virtual Visor product, which helps improve safety for drivers by using a driver-facing camera and a smart flip-down LCD to digitally block sun glare. Can you tell our readers more about these programs and how they promote change within the company in practical terms?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is a tale first pioneered by insurance companies in the 1950s to convince older Americans that they weren't being ejected from the productive workforce, but rather had the freedom from work. The company's ads and billboards warn of longer retirements. They want to create a better world for future generations.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Women account for just 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs and fewer than 15% of corporate executives at top companies worldwide. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. The gender pay gap provides an example of localized bias. Focus on Local Practices.

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