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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. Many of the poor decisions I've made and have witnessed other leaders make stemmed from 'attacking' phantom problems. I Think Not.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. Yet at no time in American history has it been so important to come up with innovative solutions. Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems.

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Are You Giving Up Power?

Harvard Business Review

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ).

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success. by Peter Senge. This is the book that launched the idea of EQ into the public domain.