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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create.

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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. My thesis is a simple one; Don’t copy – create.

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Three Key Criteria for Choosing the Right Custom Learning Partner

The Center For Leadership Studies

As organizations redefine their talent development strategies, many are looking to outsource custom learning development to accelerate and enhance their offerings. Review their website, marketing collateral and social media posts to get a sense of who they are—their culture, what they value and how they contribute to the L&D community.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities

Harvard Business Review

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Don’t treat benchmarking as the path to success.

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Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios

Harvard Business Review

A CEO wishing to improve the ratio may outsource low-paid jobs, hire more part-time than full-time workers, or invest in automation rather than labor. In short, CEOs and employees compete in very different markets, one that scales with firm size and one that scales less. Of course, not all of that $1 billion will be due to the CEO.

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How to conduct pre-employment background checks?

HR Digest

There is a great talent and skill gap in jobs in today’s job market. Companies now outsource the hiring process as limited resources challenge most companies. . The benchmark is to be able to analyze the efficiency and effectiveness of these efforts. One frequently needs to move quickly when the time comes to make a hire.