N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, in most cases I actually prefer to have my thinking challenged – this doesn’t threaten me as a leader, it improves my leadership ability. Anyone who has ever been in a leadership position has had to deal with the inevitable tough relationship that causes more than its fair share of brain damage.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

As part of this effort, they discovered that the majority of employees who were advising Janssen on emerging markets had never set foot in those countries. Then assemble small, cross-silo teams and get them in-country to find ways to better deliver healthcare access in that emerging market. Collaboration Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

There is a growing network of people — including the leaders of companies such as the Container Store, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, Patagonia and Whole Foods Market (of which one of us is the co-CEO) — building their companies based on the idea that business is about more than making a profit. It's about higher purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). Top startups already have market leading solutions. To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

And so what I see here is China, vastly bigger than the Philippines and Vietnam, with not only more military capacity, but much more economic capacity and influence over those markets, seeing if they can improve their situation on the ground, and not minding so much if the cost is that a couple of noses get bloodied. China’s number one.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

The occasion was the Tuck Global Leadership 2030 executive education program, which took place in Chennai, India, and Satyarthi was the distinguished guest. Recently another seemingly intractable problem — but one that businesses could eradicate — came to my attention.

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