N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 342

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2011

ValuesJam in 2003 gave IBM's workforce the opportunity to redefine the firm's core values for the first time in nearly 100 years. Suggestions ranged from streamlining operational processes, saving thousands of hours annually, to simplifying financial and sales processes across business units.

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Process Press Release Automotive Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

Companies that operate as a collection of silos commit the cardinal sin of underperforming relative to the resources they have invested. Daimler's engineers in Germany could not work with their Chrysler counterparts in Detroit , leading to the sale of the latter at a loss of some $35 billion. Under-collaboration.

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CIO Consensus Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Leadership is changing — fast. Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. Partly this is an operational capability — how do you quickly shut down avenues through which information is escaping? The 21st-Century CEO.

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Competitive Advantage PR Information Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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