N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning Succession planning is crucial to any organization’s growth strategy, and its importance cannot be overstated. This process helps organizations align their current and future business goals, promotes employee career development, and ensures smooth leadership transitions.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. Third, evaluating professors’ scholarly contributions by counting their “A” journal publications incentivizes scholars to produce as many published studies as possible.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. The three principles that emerged from that event guided decision-making throughout the organization, giving IBM's huge, globally dispersed workforce the discipline necessary to execute the company's new strategy.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. With a wealth of expertise available via outsourcing, one can quickly become a ‘kid in a candy shop,’ wanting whatever is readily available or craftily packaged. That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 by Hank Moore.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Will it mean that you expect employees to follow a certain promotion path and career timeline? These types of leaders have not just an incredible passion and work ethic for what they do, but a cultural ethic in that how they do what they do inspires others. Embrace your frontline cultural ambassadors.

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