N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 19, 2012

5. Resolve conflicts and insist on cooperation. Gift yourself the pause that refreshes and read The Best Gift An Employee Can Get: 8 Steps to Being a Better Boss in 2013. Demonstrate concern for team members. 6. Ask team members to stretch. 7. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. 8. Walk your talk. .

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I have written about this presentation in 2013 with a few selected clips from the presentation. Now we have added the full presentation to our YouTube channel: Louie provides an informative discussion of the transformation of Hallmark Building Supplies as they adopted Deming’s ideas to manage their organization.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 12, 2013

But we have come to tolerate the illusion that the essential matters of work can be invented, managed, and sustained through the creation, storage, retrieval, display, and publication of information. What was invented as a means to replace the post office has now become the most common management tool in organizations.

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Productivity Products Six Sigma Competitive Advantage 64

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2008 survey of 250 managers in the UK revealed that 90% of them believed that political skill is required to succeed and to improve one’s career prospects. A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities.

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Politics Cooper Mentor Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Could Liberate 50% of Managers' Time. Over the same time period, the company saw a 10-fold increase in revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

The most recent data comes from a 2013 study by the Ponemon Institute and Symantec of 277 companies that experienced losses or thefts of protected personal data. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. IT management' Data Under Siege An HBR Insight Center. Cyber Security in the Internet of Things.

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Cost Software Pharmaceuticals Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In mid-September 2013, 10 professionals returning from multi-year career breaks walked into 270 Park Avenue in New York City to begin the J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In Morgan ReEntry Program. And last week J.P.

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Ulrich Cooper Gordon Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. During the past two decades it has transformed into a provider of electrical, hydraulic, and mechanical power management solutions. Change management Mergers & Acquisitions'

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Here, some of our favorite lessons from the class of 2013: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on having long-term colleagues: “Treat people well. Try to cooperate.” ” Career planning Managing yourself' Don’t mislead them. Don’t be prickly. Don’t say things that are aggravating.

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Succession Learning-by-Doing Cooper Career 15

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

The employees were asked to guess the salary of both their peers and their manager. In our experiments, making wealth visible was a very corrosive force; doing so reduced cooperation and widened economic inequality. Research from UC Berkeley highlights that such schemes can also have unintended consequences. Bosses pay.

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Policies Learning-by-Doing Analysis Comparison 100

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

But when I put the question to top management, well, they''re busy — not their problem, that''s for sure — and they refer me to the chief information officer or the chief technology officer. This is a management failure, not a technological problem. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos. And we set up new, regular sharing sessions to improve cooperation among regions. Branding Change management Marketing'

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Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Beijing’s business circles are buzzing this week about what the Communist Party of China (CPC) is cooking up for the Third Plenary Session of the 18 th Party Congress, scheduled to start on November 9, 2013. Which Management Style Will China Adopt? China’s Next Great Transition. An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

Compare that to the recent rise of an impromptu city near Allahabad in India: In the week after January 14, 2013, the first day of the Maha Kumbh Mela festival — during which Hindus gather for a sacred bath at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers — around 10 million people had gathered there.

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Long-term Engineering Comparison Cooper 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2016

In December 2013 he was an up-and-coming young San Francisco entrepreneur and CEO of an incubator, when he posted an offhand comment on Facebook about homelessness in his city. Greg Gopman has had an interesting two and a half years. In part, he wrote: In other cosmopolitan cities, the lower part of society keep to themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

It’s still the users whose creating and sharing gives Twitter its value as a business, but their activities are now mostly channeled and managed by the company itself. billion in its 2013 IPO) that investors have plowed into it. The company has piles of money — $3.6 And the company’s latest (Oct.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. Dynatrace, a leader in application performance management software, has shown the importance of developing SaaS products from scratch, in isolation of existing product lines.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Faced with the densely compressed information that numbers, algorithms, and indicators offer, managers increasingly tend to rely on what they suggest as action to be taken – sometimes, as the financial crisis so dramatically demonstrated, to our great peril. Business education Collaboration Decision making'

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Senge Education Rogers Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. When firms fail to establish good relationships with their stakeholders, it can lead to increased conflict and reduced stakeholder cooperation. ” Improving risk management. ” Improving risk management. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012.

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Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The global sharing economy market was valued at $26 billion in 2013 and some predict it will grow to become a $110 billion revenue market in the coming years, making it larger than the U.S. But companies in this space can benefit from being more cooperative with regulators. chain restaurant industry.

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Business Model Hotels Venture Capitalist Transportation 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. We also asked the directors to assess their companies’ performance on talent management by evaluating the following nine practices: attracting top talent.

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Talent Management Analysis Globalization Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). In the five-year period from 2009 to 2013, there were 8,786 U.S. In 2013 there were approximately 1.02 To shed more light on Arab contributions to the U.S. Of the total U.S.

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Innovation Analysis Technology Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

Competition trumps cooperation, and distributed decision-making by individual business units trumps universal strategy. As a 2013 HBR article explained, “Conglomerates may be regarded as dinosaurs in the developed world, but in emerging markets, diversified business groups continue to thrive.”. The article, by J. Ramachandran, K.S.

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IPO Welch Strategy Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Economists, policy makers, executives, educators, the press, and others must become more adept at anger management. Why does all this matter for the purposes of anger management? A 2013 Pew Research survey found that business executives ranked ninth out of 10 professions in terms of social contribution, only placing ahead of lawyers.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8