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

N2Growth Blog

The mindset and skill set for the latter is vastly different than those that enabled your creative expression. As your company matures that person might not have the needed skill set to take the company to the next level. And, you operate in a fishbowl. Everyone reports to you and looks to you for answers. We know that.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. This skill takes practice. Rehearse your pitch. Test ideas.

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The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

That same report mentioned the advent of “robotic bricklayers.” It is easy to find reports that predict the loss of between 5 and 10 million jobs by 2020. Separate research has concluded that accountants have a 95% chance of losing their jobs to automation in the future.” Insight Center. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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6 Things Successful Women in STEM Have in Common

Harvard Business Review

No wonder that fewer than 2 in 10 women in STEM who have not achieved success report being extremely confident in their abilities. Among women who have achieved success in STEM, 39% report such confidence. A majority of successful women in STEM report sponsoring someone at their companies (only 37% of other women in STEM do the same).

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To Make Virtual Teams Succeed, Pick the Right Players

Harvard Business Review

The team was huge—more than 30 people—with a mixture of business, manufacturing, and commercial leaders, some of whom reported to each other. In many companies, teams seem to come together out of nowhere, grabbing any available resource, operating without adequate planning, and then fail to gel. The manufacturing company is not alone.

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How The Gap Used an App to Give Workers More Control Over Their Schedules

Harvard Business Review

Even if business leaders want to abandon the practice, it’s so firmly embedded in their operations that many think it can’t be done. But it requires the adoption of a whole new operating model. A full report on the experiment will be published in early 2018, but we already have some early results to share.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

There were reports of internecine feuding at Airbus: The internal atmosphere was tense; jobs were allocated by preferences other than commercial criteria; and mistakes such as insufficient cabling were a result of internal conflicts and mistrust. Each has different rules for skillful navigation.