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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List?

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 1. Human Resources & Leadership Development Professionals—Cohort 2.

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Board of Directors Resolution: Pay Attention to Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

Envision Google without innovators, or Zappos cutting corners on customer service. In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. And even though culture is a vital determinant of business performance, today’s Boards fail to give it the attention it deserves. Jeff Bezos thought so.

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Why Leaders Believe that Tomorrow is a Better Place

In the CEO Afterlife

In 2013, Musk unveiled an idea to revolutionize rapid transit, to create a submarine car, and a hyper speed jet. Musk is the trailblazer behind the Tesla electric car. His foresight doesn’t end there. He envisions commercial and affordable space taxis (his company has already built one). The grass is not growing under this leader’s feet.

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It’s Not HR’s Job to Be Strategic

Harvard Business Review

In its “State of Human Capital” report , McKinsey found that people in HR still largely have “a support-function mindset, a low tolerance for risk, and a limited sense of strategic ‘authorship’” — all of which has led to “low status among executive peers, no budget for innovation, and a ‘zero-defects’ mentality.”.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

Key selection criteria included experience in innovative software and service (versus product) development, and an ability to manage a start-up in a very large, complex company. A design studio is geared for collaboration and innovation work with customers and partners. “GE didn’t have brand recognition in software.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. Companies across the spectrum are grappling with change as new technologies, innovations, and customer behaviors disrupt old business models.

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