N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. My goal was to meet with a globally diverse group of thought leaders and top executives to discover what is required to lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I was struck not only by their disciplined approach but also by their freedom to discover, develop and design within broad operating parameters—conditions I did not typically associate with large, for-profit corporations. Undeniably, today’s global marketplace is a far cry from the insular corporate environment of the past.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Jim Stengel, former global marketing officer for Procter & Gamble, believes that businesses must rethink their purpose to achieve far better results. The study tracked the connection between financial performance and customer engagement, loyalty and advocacy. The result was “The Stengel 50.” Stengel’s point is good psychology.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 18, 2019

The 140km or so race across 7 mountain passes has attracted a global audience, with participants from all corners of the globe tackling one of the toughest events in the amateur cycling calendar. Why engagement matters.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Same applies to the agility exhibited by Goldman Sachs in navigating the global financial crisis of 2008-09. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. ” We tend to focus on the profound impact that these workplace changes have on our lives. Provide intrapreneurial opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. Instead programs that offer the most stability, as reported by 75 percent of respondents, are those that communicate brand mission and provide career development opportunities. They recognize that culture is critical to talent retention.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

And that means providing world-class training, clear and lucrative career paths and, increasingly, a work-life balance that allows people to enjoy the fruits of their success. Grow-Your-Own is still the best way to instill the company culture and integrate China management into global operations. This all starts at the top.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

In Hay Group’s new book, “ Leadership 2030: The Six Megatrends You Need to Understand to Lead Your Company into the Future “, we’ve identified six ‘megatrends’ that are transforming societies and the global business environment as we know it. So how can you respond?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In fact, the percentage of millennials with full-time careers is rising at a brisk clip from 45% in 2016 to 66% in 2018, according to the data we collected. In our 2018 EY Growth Barometer, an annual global survey of middle market company leaders, we found some movement away from part-time and gig hiring. 3: Gig is better.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

Understanding HR Analytics The Evolution of HR Management Over the past century, HR management has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from an operational discipline to a strategic function. Optimized HR Operations: HR analytics streamlines HR processes by automating data collection, analysis, and reporting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. The Next Analytics Age.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

According to a 2014 survey from Deloitte , 86% of business leaders know that their organizations’ future depends on the effectiveness of their leadership pipelines — but a survey of 2,200 global HR leaders found that only 13% are confident in their succession plans, with 54% reporting damage to their businesses due to talent shortages.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

They seem to be performing fine: putting in massive hours in meetings and calls across time zones, grinding out work while leading or contributing to global teams, and saying all the right things in meetings (though not in side-bar conversations). Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. I was merely managing the people who actually did and made things.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2016

We were surprised that 30 leaders in the study recalled a total of 87 “major” ethical dilemmas from their career histories. Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example). Cross-cultural differences.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I follow 6 principles on a daily basis, which I know has made a significant impact on my career success. 6) Career – I’ve always known what I wanted to do and been engaged in work I truly believe in, but I’ve sabotaged myself with too much idealism and not enough business wisdom. The first principle is getting plenty of sleep.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2016

But viewing reference checks as a formality is a mistake, according to Priscilla Claman, the president of Career Strategies, a Boston-based consulting firm and a contributor to the HBR Guide to Getting the Right Job. If you display skepticism toward the candidate or hesitate, the reference will likely clam up out of loyalty, she says.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

It demanded blind loyalty, hired ISTJ personality types for support and rewarded dogmatic sales types for trading deals. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Employees pledged blind loyalty to Ken Lay, though few ever had access to him.

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