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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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The Top 3 Corporate Communication Mistakes of 2013

leaderCommunicator

2013 gave us many examples of both good and poorly handled communication from leaders and brands. Take a look below as we detail 3 communication mistakes from 2013. In August 2013, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced that AOL would be reducing the number of Patch websites. What happened instead was far from morale-boosting.

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Top 10 Sales Trends for 2013

Harvard Business Review

What are the top business-to-business sales trends for 2013? More organizations will study their top salespeople in 2013 to understand how they formulate their winning account strategies based upon customer politics, evaluator psychology, and the human nature of executive decision makers that are unique to winning every account.

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The Growing Business of Marijuana

Harvard Business Review

Technology, marketing, retail, HVAC, construction, and manufacturing pros. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. There will be retail marijuana chain stores a la Starbucks and cannabis-infused beverage brands like Coke. And more are joining every day.

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business Review

So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.)

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How Geisinger Treats Diabetes by Giving Away Free, Healthy Food

Harvard Business Review

In 2013 spending on care for people with the disease in the United States topped $100 billion. And finally, as human resource costs account for most of the initiative’s expenses, it’s critical that providers and staff practice at the highest level their skill allows. Lee Hodges/Getty Images. >.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

“We’ll spend a lot of time bringing product to market, but we need to plan for the fact that a launch gives us a six-month head start and no more,” says Gary Booker, CMO of Dixons Retail. To affect changes in culture, some CMOs are partnering more closely with human resources. And that really is on the backs of marketing.”

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