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Leadership Matters

N2Growth Blog

This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.) I started my career in purchasing; migrated to sales and marketing; moved to manufacturing, mining, and then general management in a business operating in 40 countries.

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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Where There’s No Margin for Toxic Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The CEO thought he needed to step out of the chief sales role to focus on operations and finances. By 2013, the CEO, his business partner and an early private equity investor received an offer to sell some of their shares to a large company. It’s a different story. Consider the case of a $30 million manufacturer.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. They will benefit the most from being mentored.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. billion in 2013. To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. But is all of that changing?

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4 Strategies for Women Navigating Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

In 2013, we conducted a number of interviews and surveyed 270 female managers in Fortune 500 organizations to determine what they liked and disliked about business meetings. On the other, they acknowledge that it’s all but impossible to operate above the political fray. Turn your mentor into a sponsor.