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Inside the Big Tech’s Brutal Layoffs

HR Digest

Everyone’s getting slammed,” says Roger Lee, founder of Layoffs.fyi, told Yahoo Finance “Earlier in the year, layoffs in tech were concentrated within food, transportation, and finance startups — but at this point it’s hitting every sector within tech.”. Google-parent Alphabet may also reduce workforce.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# There are a few times in the life of every professional where staggering opportunities will present themselves.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you find that you lack skill sets and competencies in certain areas seek out mentors and coaches to shore-up your weaknesses, and more importantly, use your professional advisors to assist you in leveraging your strengths. Great leaders possess great interpersonal skills. Section VI: Persuasiveness. Section VII: Likeability.

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The Salary Gap Between Stingy and Generous Companies Is Growing

Harvard Business Review

What if the top companies were attracting all the most skilled workers, and that’s why they were paying more? The increasing inequality between companies is sharpest in finance, insurance, and real estate, followed by communications. The researchers considered the possibility that this finding reflected a sorting of talent.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Go… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Dan Rogers Mike – This is a great post with excellent perspective. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance. I plan on circulating your information and just ordered your book. link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words Dan, and I hope you enjoy the book.

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

Dean of the Rotman School of Management, Roger Martin, states in Fixing the Game , "We haven’t looked deeper into blameworthy CEO behavior to understand what really caused it. That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.”

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Streaks, from Jumpin' Joe to Mutual Fund Managers

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2008, Steve Strogatz and I were interested in sports, not the world of finance. What's more, those streaks were still made by the skillful, such giants as Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. If skill played little or no role in the streaks we found, we would get the same distribution of streaks when we ran the null model.