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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In fact, it is my opinion that the worst form of gossip is conducted under the guise of seeking advice or counsel. Furthermore, allowing anyone under your charge to participate in any activity to the contrary makes you an accomplice in the decline of morale, and the decay of your corporate culture.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

As odd as it sounds, businesses that are not dependant on smart talent, capital, or technology can scale faster and easier than those businesses burdened with the aforementioned dependencies. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Toxic personalities will put a damper on morale, attempt to intimidate and/or manipulate co-workers for personal gain, and can even chase away a company’s best talent. royatkinson Thanks for including that last piece of advice, Mike. As you so clearly pointed out, bullies are self-serving not selfless.

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The Attitude Trap – a Guest Post by Wally Bock

Kevin Eikenberry

His passions are leadership, marketing, personal development and the way people and organizations use processes and technology to improve results. In a recent post about boosting morale , I talked about defining morale. This is the same point Wally is making (though more directly and probably more effectively).

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? They also seek the advice and counsel of their board and executive team in addition to a plethora of outside advisers.

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How Marketers Can Get More Value from Their Recommendation Engines

Harvard Business Review

Thoughtfully managed, recommendations can prove far more valuable to marketers than for the customers they ostensibly serve. Recommendation engines not only generate useful data for analyzing customer desires; they can be harnessed to make tactical and strategic recommendations for marketers. Data-Driven Marketing.

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. .” technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online.

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