Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2023

Why Getting More Women in Leadership Positions is a Must Across all industries, women are often underrepresented in leadership roles due to systemic biases and barriers that limit their career advancement opportunities. The issue is particularly pronounced in male-dominated fields such as finance, technology and engineering.

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Cooperperson

DECEMBER 11, 2017

People who are in professions like Information Technology, Finance, Accounting, and Engineering tend to be analytic, cautious, conscientious and describe themselves as introverts. It takes commitment and self-discipline which happens to be a strength of introverts. Luckily, these are skills that can be developed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. At this stage of my career I tend to look at the nature of the engagement more than I do my rate schedule.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’m also not a fan of going to a blog to read third party news, press or the re-blogging of someone else’s information published for no other reason then to boost their search engine rankings. Like most things in life worth doing, blogging takes commitment and effort. It's crucial for your biz. Great post!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. We then required our entire staff to attend a week-long intensive program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

In particular, we are interested in how many of their responses correlate with what academic finance knows and what it teaches. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But commitment guides bravery more than an inherent belief in self-ability! Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. However, before committing, choose the organization of interest EXTREMELY carefully. Pitches MUST be short, which is more time-consuming than presenting long ones.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Career opportunities for women in "the New India" are rapidly expanding, but family expectations and social mores remain rooted in tradition. Not surprisingly, the most stress is felt among women between 25 and 55 years of age, who are trying to balance demanding careers with obligations at home. We do all of them.".

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Stress Human Resources Pharmaceuticals Sharpe 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Sourcing for Commitment. Today Dexter brings on 80–100 Year Up interns annually for tech jobs ranging from software engineering to customer service. now has more than 13,000 alumni across 16 cities.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

At the same time, fighter planes were coming in low overhead, their engines echoing in the cavernous atmosphere of Manhattan. We’ll never take their commitment lightly. Fifth Avenue was shut down and everyone was walking in the middle of it headed from hospital to hospital or up to the Red Cross to give blood. My thoughts raced.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

It''s a nice primer on a range of views about what search engines should and shouldn''t reveal, and how the extraordinarily powerful company in the middle of the battle is responding. In the past, Ellison has been quoted as saying that the island feels to him like “this really cool 21st-century engineering project.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Let me be blunt – you won’t earn anyone’s respect, at least not the respect of anyone who matters if your concern for career success overshadows your concern for the well-being of your family. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career. What I can tell you is that I’ve always made my family a priority.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 376

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

First, if your network has become too narrow, you limit your options in case of a career change, or a downturn in your company or industry. ” He had spent a decade at a large technology company, rising to become an engineering director. It may seem innocuous, but that inadvertent myopia can put you at serious professional risk.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

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. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For example, in the Twin Cities, a diverse group of policymakers, corporations, foundations, and community organizations have come together to link and integrate previously disconnected efforts around transit planning and engineering, land use planning, affordable housing, workforce development, and economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

The experience of the typical intrapreneur looks less like Spencer Silver, who developed the Post-It note while at 3M, and more like Steven Sasson, the engineer at Kodak who invented the portable digital camera. Companies need to create innovation careers rather than just innovation jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

With 70% of organizations facing increased uncertainty, many are reducing their commitment to training and professional development activities, or make it a 'nice to have' perk for when profits are clearly in sight. Consider how an engineer in our study must tap networks each time she develops a new research proposal for grant funding.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

You’re thinking about making a career change (or perhaps getting your first real job out of grad school), and you’re looking at different types of organizations. “You might move from product to engineering to ops.” He also considered the impact a change might have on his family and its finances.

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Due Diligence How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. And in pharma or tech, CEOs should have also had a relevant formal education such as in medicine or science for pharma, and in math, engineering, or computer science for tech.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

There is a lot of advice out there about keeping your online activity from hurting your career. To make the most of social media to further your career, you need to make a conscious choice to use it for professional purposes, understand what your goals are, and then actively manage your digital footprint. But there's a flip side.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. Almost everybody is bullish, expects the market to go up, and is fully committed. Why Fed chairmen can’t do research.

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