N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. A McKinsey report suggests that organizations embracing continual improvement experience 20-30% productivity gains.

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Learning Organization Innovation Organization Six Sigma 251

HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the labor force participation of women in their prime, aged between 25 and 54, has increased to 77.8 Labor force participation rates are also clear on the fact that working mothers with younger children (aged below 5) were less likely to participate in the workforce earlier.

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GDP McKinsey Participative Report 98

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

” The traditional hierarchical model of leadership will not work effectively for major organizations in tomorrow’s changing world. However, as leaders in the new AT&T now realize, the old command-and-control model of leadership will not encourage the creativity and responsiveness needed to get tomorrow’s job done.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

A 2015 McKinsey report on 366 public companies found that those in the top quartile for ethnic and racial diversity in management were 35% more likely to have financial returns above their industry mean, and those in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have returns above the industry mean.

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Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

I earned my MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 2000, and since 2007 I’ve been an Instructor and an internal coach back at the GSB, helping hundreds of students develop their leadership and interpersonal skills. Practical leadership and management skills. Here’s how I respond to those inquiries.

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Supply Chain Reputation Education Learning-by-Doing 20

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Break up a strategic function in response to underperformance in the wake of severe market disruptions? Put the most strategic pieces into the hands of up-and-comers passing through the leadership-development revolving door? Now compare that to the context and condition of today’s CHRO role. Bring on the quants.

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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Escaping that rut and rethinking who gets a seat at the table just might be the most urgent leadership imperative of our day. If you want to derive all of the insight and benefits of inviting broad participation in charting your organization's future, it's not enough to just ask for ideas.

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COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 13