N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Deep Imprints

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I see a dichotomy in Jim’s speech, as in some places he calls for women to be welcomed into church leadership, in some places he speaks against mega churches, and in still others he talks about women’s senior pastor opportunities being limited to country churches. The examples in this book were terrific.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Much of the advice out there is about simplifying things – delayering, decentralizing, streamlining product lines, creating stronger processes for ensuring alignment, and so on. The more open the organization is to external sources of energy, the easier it is to harness the forces of emergence rather than entropy.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

For example, Microsoft IT leaders take their organization’s pulse using analytical software that monitors trending topics in their Yammer collaboration space. For example, a study of a multinational pharmaceutical company revealed that leaders in its U.S. Leadership & Managing people Technology Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Advanced manufacturing technologies, for example, are starting to reshape the supply chain road map that’s been in place for the past few decades by reducing the importance of scale in production, increasing flexibility, and enabling production to move closer to end markets.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

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