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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

The inaugural version of our Top CHRO List was published on Forbes in 2015. In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Selection Methodology.

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Leaders, Want To Master Innovation? Then Get Funny!

Tanveer Naseer

Social humor is practiced as part of the IDEO design thinking process that “encourages wild ideas” to take root. Galinsky (2015). Studies have shown that humorous self-criticism works much less well as a tool to engage with peers and superiors, and can even reduce one’s credibility with subordinates – if used excessively.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. It was 200 gigawatts and reached 370 by 2015. There were 109 million sold by then and over 17 billion sold to date.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

The year 2015 was a pivotal time when humanity turned more decisively toward building a thriving and sustainable world. Here are eight cross-cutting themes and stories from 2015 that are driving us toward a sustainable world (and two that are doing the opposite): 1. in the first six months of 2015, 70% was renewable.

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Using Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge to Gain Insight into Data Collection

Deming Institute

” Granted APS is an extreme example of measurement gone wild, but think about how measurements are impacted by other decisions made in education—from ones at the classroom level to the school system level and even at a national or international level.

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Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Companies like GM, P&G, 3M, Under Armor, KC, Harley Davidson, Omnicom and McDonalds have been beaten up by Wall Street during 2015 for their disappointing EPS growth, spurred in part by currency-based pressure on foreign earnings. What role should the foreign operations of the big American multinationals play?

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business Review

In March 2015, Target hired three outsiders as “entrepreneurs-in-residence.” That is not to say people in a large company can’t successfully explore new business models, design remarkable products and experiences, or pursue new markets. ” By June 2017, all three had been cut loose and their projects shelved.