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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Paradise By The Green Dashboard Light – A Leadership Short Story

Terry Starbucker

We had acquired the properties in 2003, and had spent the first 5 years setting the stage for a drive to sustained growth and profitability. It was like we were mad scientists fiddling around with different chemical formulas. The answer, as this leadership short story shows, is to think green. Lead well! Roboto”.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” ” Many consumers regard this cancer warning as comparable in severity to cigarette warnings, even though the risk levels depend on the chemical present and often differ markedly. A 2003 U.S.

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A New Era for Global Leadership Development

Harvard Business Review

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

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Identify Blue Oceans by Mapping Your Product Portfolio

Harvard Business Review

Over the last fifteen years Apple has made a series of successful market-creating—or blue ocean—moves (think the iMac, iPod, iTunes, the iPhone, the App Store, and the iPad). From the 2001 launch of the iPod to the fiscal year end of 2014, Apple’s market cap surged more than 75-fold as its sales and profits exploded.

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The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies

Harvard Business Review

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share.

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.