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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value. " Great article.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. For more information, see the conference homepage. Business education Education Leadership development'

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Why You Really Shouldn't Curse at Work (Much)

Harvard Business Review

And yet many of the people I spoke with about this subject, men as well as women, suggested that swearing was a strategic part of the lexicon they developed to be taken seriously as potential alphas of their organizations. I can relate. Their curses were meant to take charge, to intimidate. We've seen this play out in public.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. years as recently as 1998. Myths vs reality.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. Stephen Gordon CEO Opus Bank. The conference and the whole trip to California was so exciting and energizing.

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The Insidious Economic Impact of Sexual Harassment

Harvard Business Review

Up to 85% of women report that they have been sexually harassed at work, according to a 2016 report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. What happens next is often not captured in numbers, but in the fine-print details of recent media reports. Ali Douglass/Getty Images. ” Or, “ I left that place.”