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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

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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It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

Despite prominent calls to action, and despite digital’s ubiquity in the press and in many discussions of strategy and tactics across organizational functions, it appears that boards are still not seeing the value of digital. in 2003, an all-time high. (Of According to recent research , it appears not. This is disturbing.

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What Companies Can Learn from Military Teams

Harvard Business Review

Joint Special Operations Task Force in 2003, he recognized that traditional tactics of warfare were failing in Iraq. McChrystal: When I joined Special Operations as a Green Beret, we were already pretty good at operating as small teams — say, up to about 20 guys. Stanley McCrystal took charge of the U.S.

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When Good Management Is a Matter of Life and Death

Harvard Business Review

soldiers operating a radar station saw something that looked like an incoming airplane; they telephoned an officer, who told them to forget it (the attack occurred 53 minutes later). We have seen this happen before. At Pearl Harbor , at 7:02 am on December 9, 1941, two U.S. just passed on), and if not, to act themselves.

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Five Mistakes to Avoid When Managing Digital Teams

Harvard Business Review

Experimentation is essential — a digital team operating within the bounds of tried and true will not advance your goals. In 2003, blogging was still new in the mainstream, and mistrusted by corporations wedded to large CMS installs. Mistake #3: Letting fear of failure override thoughtful experimentation.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The NASA community and the entire world were saddened by the disaster of the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003. In 1999, the industry reported an operating profit of almost $9 billion and net income of more than $5 billion. by Hank Moore.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I had the privilege to be part of a group there in 2003. It made me sit down and think… Just yesterday I attended the opening of the second Columba 1400 Leadership Centre here in Scotland. The bottom line for C1400 is to help young people from “tough realities&# to reflect on their personal leadership.