N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

link] Elllen Weber Wow – Mike, thanks for the way you weave the parts together with such agility. I am in complete concurrence that the sooner a person becomes a better decision maker, the sooner they'll see more things work for them as opposed to against them. Great insights Susan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. The Thiel Foundation president points out that “the safe career track is totally broken.” This is true.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The emerging global executive has tremendous opportunity for an exciting and rewarding career, but it will take a lot of work. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Accelerate : Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World by John P. We need get off the career ladder and get onto a learning curve. Best Leadership Books of 2011. Kotter For most companies, the hierarchy is the singular operating system at the heart of the firm. Blog Post ). We need to be a perpetual rookie.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Industry and academic leaders revealed that the very skills needed for workforce success are the same skills graduating students lack — such as analysis and problem solving, collaboration and teamwork, business-context communication, and flexibility, agility, and adaptability.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Leaders who pivot well horizontally, earning the trust and respect of their team, are 21% more likely to be satisfied with their career progression than team leaders who haven’t. For example, American Express created its Accelerated Leadership Development program, in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2018

At the time, in 2011, we already had over 300 non-U.S. We already had significant momentum for international expansion, including a few executives readying to lead the charge, making plans to move their families and careers to London. By the end of the year, we had increased the number of customers by 42% over 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

At the NeuroLeadership Institute, we’ve been studying this trend closely since 2011. Studying companies that have made the change, we are seeing a clear trend: conventional ratings systems inhibit collaboration, making a business less customer-focused and agile. Millennials in particular crave learning and career growth.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

While there is little debate that speed can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of speed can send a company (or a career) into a death spiral. Agility, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment and focus all lead to the creation of speed which results in a certainty of execution.

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