N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In the 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Corporate Directors Survey it was reported that the average age of board directors is 68 and mandatory retirement has risen to 72-75. It definitely takes a unique individual to assume a director role in the earlier stages of their career and the opportunity will not be appropriate for most.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

From how I was raised through my education and my career at Bell Labs and AT&T, I never felt any gender bias. In June 2013, Vivek Wadhwa and Farai Chideya invited women to crowd-create a book on women innovators by sharing their own stories. I never felt any discrimination or lack of respect from my partners. Get Innovating Women.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. Likewise, leadership is a choice. You have to decide if leadership is really something you're ready to shoulder. Careers can be short or long. It's not for everyone. We all fail.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? For example, Bezos has developed deep expertise in software engineering, robotics, information technology, devices (e.g.,

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. One long-standing issue had been relatively poor attendance at weekly chapter meetings.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. Volunteers can tap into ready-made presentations, videos, reference links, and software tools. (To

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