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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. Business education Education Leadership development' Many government-supported universities are already cutting budgets.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

. “For most of the last half-century — 84 percent of the time since 1966 — average wages have grown more slowly than would be predicted based on productivity and inflation growth,” The New York Times reported. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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The Renaissance We Need in Business Education

Harvard Business Review

The Gordon-Howell Report in 1959, funded by the Ford Foundation, criticized the weak scientific foundation of business education, suggesting that professors were more like quacks than serious scholars. The economics of operating large campuses, big faculties, and admin staff are inflating the costs of business education beyond reason.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

The program is most often associated with the tech industry, where H-1B workers hold about 12%–13% of jobs , according to a Goldman Sachs report. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% The Economist has reported that the number of unfilled U.S. For comparison, they hold around 0.6%–0.7% jobs overall.)