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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose. Because of its success and mission, the bank had recently accepted a minority investment from global powerhouse, Bank of America.

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Making the Turn: 10 Warning Signs You aren’t Shifting from Founder to Leader

N2Growth Blog

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. You’re not managing your energy well. Effective time management begins with good energy management. Leadership involves uncertainty.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

Also forcing companies in the direction of worthiness is a growing global consciousness. ” “… studies find that primary contributors to employee commitment include : management concern for employees and customers. ” If companies want to succeed in this ethical age, they had better live up to those ideals.”

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What I did know was that I, and our leadership team, needed to solicit feedback — a lot of it.

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The Most Innovative Companies Have Long-Term Leadership

Harvard Business Review

A Gartner survey of almost 500 executives at global corporations revealed that growth is this year’s top priority. But sometimes, executives manage to overcome all of these structural challenges and push the right types of ideas regardless of the barriers. Call 2014 the year of innovation. Staying power is vital for innovation.

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The Best Companies Invest Aggressively in These 3 Areas

Harvard Business Review

“Talent management is easily over a third of all executive time when you count it all,” one long-standing company employee told us about how the company is run. The company’s success has made it one of the best-performing IPOs in Asia in the last decade. “It is big.”

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

With a strong, competent, and independent chair able to step in and assume responsibility (and possibly act as interim CEO), a company in a crisis that destroys its leadership is better placed to navigate the storm. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP.

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