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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Designers will become even more valued members of product development and planning teams in every field.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

However starting in the 1980's, many companies evolved to "functional" structures to cut costs and reduce duplication. As a result of this shift, career paths today are less geared towards filling the few remaining general management positions, and instead focus on functional specialization.

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Why California Is Such a Talent Magnet

Harvard Business Review

Californian cities have proven especially good at this despite their high cost of living. They want to make sure they’ll learn on and off the job, have access to local cultural opportunities, and develop a robust professional network. And yet some cities seem to attract talent much more easily than others. How do they do it?

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. They assume that there are no counter-trends or embryonic developments. Designers will become even more valued members of product development and planning teams in every field.