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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 One Thing Your Team Wants You to Stop Doing

Harvard Business Review

The other day, on the sidelines of a conference, a bright young manager sought my advice. Yet, as recent reports confirm, there's a growing disconnect between teams and managers. A third quoted Gordon Selfridge: "A boss inspires fear, a leader inspires enthusiasm.". I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.". I asked him.

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

Harvard Business Review

Elizabeth Gordon, who studies speech and gender stereotypes at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has found in her research that women who were "non-standard" speakers — that is, foul-mouthed — were judged to be of lower social and moral strata. Their curses were meant to take charge, to intimidate.

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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 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

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. In 2014, as in previous years, the dominant reason for discontinuation of a venture in Latin America, Africa, Europe, Asia and Oceania was that the business was not profitable, as per the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2014 Global report.

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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.”