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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Dave didn’t advocate any particular design model, just one the leader knows how to employ and one flexible enough to be applied to the range of organizational situations a leader faces in the course of a career. What is the business’s value proposition and it sources of competitive advantage?

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How to Make Employment Fair in an Age of Contracting and Temp Work

Harvard Business Review

This phenomenon is what I call the fissured workplace , the cracks upon which today’s economy largely rest, and it leaves so many without fair wages, a career path, or a safe work environment. Firms typically started outsourcing activities like payroll, publications, accounting, and human resources.