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Consultants: Resistance Is Futile

N2Growth Blog

When you look back on your career, you remember the jobs you took, the jobs you declined, the opportunities realized and the opportunities lost. The room erupts with cheers and ACME is once again hired to save the Corporate P&L. You also remember the Consultants. Can you hear the creepy organ music?) Executive.

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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. The idea of curated customer experiences was something that had to be taught, and we chose candidates who wanted to learn and improve their careers. Instead, we focused on our brand and how to flip the script on growing a business.

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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. employees (47%) experiencing it.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. High performing women need to take control of their own career advancement. Communicate your intention to advance your career. o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. They need to advocate for an advocate or sponsor.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Here are five: Commit from the Top.

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Bring Back the General Manager

Harvard Business Review

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. At one time general managers were at the center of the action.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

He was comfortable making smart bets to position IBM for decades-long growth, such as creating the Emerging Business Organization to incubate new businesses and shield them from P&L pressures. Palmisano believes the technology industry requires "a high-performance, in-your-face, speak-your-mind culture." Directness.