N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I have been directing high-performance team workshops for nearly 15 years and I am in complete agreement with you Mike. Good parents have the same qualities as servant leaders – they are committed, focused, loving, caring, empathetic, and are present without losing sight of the future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

They could no longer simply hire new employees to meet every new demand, but needed a more comprehensive and integrated approach that would optimize workforce speed, quality, cost and flexibility, and balance value and risk across the total talent investment. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite. Allianz employees are paired with social entrepreneurs for a five-day intensive workshop following a mandatory training session that prepares employees for their assigned projects.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. ” This ended up being the “true north” our employees rallied around.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Companies don’t think of themselves as being “in the learning business” or they don’t feel they have the competency to produce high-quality learning. But when we talked to CFOs, what they really wanted to know was how the company managed its own finances across so many geographies. The third is skillset.

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CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

The IOC's Evaluation Commission then reports on the technical quality of the bid, prior to the vote of its membership to award the Games. Bids of applicant cities must now be presented according to a standardised template, with covenants of support from the relevant public authorities and political actors.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MAY 25, 2009

The CEO had been in place for only a short time, having been promoted rapidly from company accountant to Finance Director to CEO. During a strategy workshop, Directors closed ranks, recited rehearsed statements about the strategy and looked to the CEO for approval. Thats nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true.

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Politics Self-aware CEO Blog 41

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2013

Of course, no one likes to pay taxes, but the Danes don''t complain as much as you might expect in part because they receive a high quantity and quality of public services for their taxes. At an entrepreneurship ecosystems workshop I ran in St.

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Entrepreneur IPO Incentives Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

Their product development teams followed a traditional software development method – called “ Waterfall ” – in which they spent months defining customer requirements and functional specifications, coding the software, and testing it for quality and reliability. The rise of cloud computing changed all this.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

A workshop attendee asked me this seemingly simple question: "So, what else should I read to learn more about innovation?". It's a hard question to answer because there is so much high-quality material out there. And specific recommendations depend on the specific topic about which you are most curious.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Leadership is a process or journey of becoming : Although certain people are clearly born with innate leadership qualities, without the right environment and exposure, they may fail to develop their full potential. So like learning how to ride a bicycle, you can also learn how to become a leader and how to hone your leadership abilities.

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Blog Leadership Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 406

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The problem with the coaching profession is that as a general rule it is a widely held belief (at least by coaches) that a good business coach need not have specific business expertise and experience in the same field as the person receiving the coaching in order to provide quality business coaching services. Ultimately, I agree with Peter.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). Another example is the Finance Innovation Lab, which hosted the meeting of unusual suspects mentioned above. The purpose?

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System Incubator Supply Chain NGO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

While attending a UN-sponsored workshop last month in Freetown, Sierra Leone, I noticed an amazing transformation in that country, fuelled primarily by the Chinese. Africa has become a place where financial institutions are financing real estate projects. In my hotel, the TV remote controller was marked in Chinese.

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