N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. I believe it was Cyrus the Great who said “diversity in counsel, unity in command” meaning that good leaders seek the counsel of others, but maintain command control over the final decision. They make bad decisions.

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Blog Analysis CEO Brand 386

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity? For example, Gap Inc.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 17, 2012

In most cases, when we define success, we tend to rely on market-based metrics such as profits earned, market share and so forth. Unless they work in the C-suite or the finance department of their organization, it’s unlikely that they’ll be using these as their own measurements of success.

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Goal Short-term Long-term Marketing 189

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. The evidence is clear that more diverse and inclusive organizations are more creative, innovative, and higher performing. We’re a people-driven company and want to be an organization that attracts and retains the best talent, across all dimensions of diversity.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Success demands a far more diverse set of experiences and skills. Finance Human resources' Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions?

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Success requires getting a diverse group of managers to coalesce around change—breaking down barriers across a wide phalanx of IT, business-lines, analytics, and training experts. The possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives.

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Real Estate Constraint Entrepreneur Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

With our cotton farmers in Xinjiang, we changed many of the unfair trade practices and now aim for more than just fair trade by promoting higher cotton yields and quality through assistance in cotton research, farming techniques, and access to micro-finance.

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Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

While the score reflects a number of significant metrics, common sense dictates that Justin Bieber might be effective in influencing conversations around pop culture, but less effective in areas such as finance or politics. It's a more open and diverse model that empowers even small groups to make a big difference. Credibility.

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Influence Participative Media System 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Educate and Motivate Others.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

I’ll use the example of a leadership team of a manufacturing plant to demonstrate the process. The manufacturing leadership team would emphasize issues that cut across the plant and parse out topics that can be addressed by individuals or subgroups of the team. First, define the work of the team. Nothing else.

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Operations Short-term Supply Chain Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. “I That approach to linked metrics served as the basis for developing employee incentives, such as bonuses.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11