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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

I am no stranger to the challenges of candidate management during a crisis. I started my career in executive search right out of college over 13 years ago, so recruiting is work that I’ve always done and always loved. The post Candidate Management During a Crisis appeared first on N2Growth.

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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

As customers’ needs become more diverse, the managers of the future must adapt to meet their demands. Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. Today’s markets are rapidly becoming highly fragmented, reflecting diverse customer needs.

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Forecasts often lead to disappointments, both for management – employees – shareholders and other stakeholders. Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to. We should continue to make plans, provided we make our plans as flexible as possible.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

There I observed a wide array of Abbott executives, scientists and managers. As a manager “on loan” to Abbott from the University of Michigan, I quickly found similarities between the two organizations. They can pose major challenges for today’s managers, especially if those managers are part of a different generation.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. For example, I once helped survey US global money managers.

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

I recently discussed the issue of managing through uncertainty with retired U.S. Petraeus has managed uncertainty of global scope and with the highest stakes. Our conversation left me with three recommendations for managing uncertainty that we all can use: Learn faster than your opponent. So how should leaders adapt?

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How to Build Great Data Products

Harvard Business Review

Product managers, user researchers, and business leaders traditionally have the strong intuition and domain expertise to identify key unsolved user and business needs. Teams that over-invest in technical validation before validating product-market fit risk wasted R&D efforts pointed at the wrong problem or solution.