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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

metros that increased their productivity, average wages, and standard of living from 2010 to 2015, only 11 metros achieved inclusive economic outcomes. 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. This needs to change.

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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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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. The question is whether TFA's seemingly prolific production of entrepreneurs is fact or simple hearsay. Does the TFA career experience seem to make its alumni more likely to become educational entrepreneurs?

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Why California Is Such a Talent Magnet

Harvard Business Review

By supporting worker mobility, cities can both foster the growth of denser talent networks within their borders and increase the likelihood of technological and other productive innovation. 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.

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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

First, they are less likely to take risks – which means they are unlikely to invent new products, processes, or business models. We need to teach children to be courageous enough to take risks throughout their careers and to deal with the failures that unavoidably occur.