N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Human Resources Globalization Diversity Resources 469

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

The innovations that allow us teleconferencing, emails, and phone conversations wherever/whenever should increase our free time, but ironically, they’ve just turned our 40-hour work week into a 140-hour work week and caused us to ignore the most innovative, powerful tool in our leadership arsenal: our bodies.

Leadership 182

Leadership Mayo Chemicals Learning-by-Doing 182

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Leads Tuck’s incredibly innovative coaching program.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We’d have to live without medicinal drugs, challenging sports, sugary foods, and useful tools. A label may read, for example : “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer.” A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Mass Marketing System Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Fantasy Sports Competition. As Moneyball and the rise of quants in professional sports worldwide attest, the ability to relentlessly improve the quality and specificity of performance analytics is key to success. This class requires small teams of students to compete against each other in at least two data-rich team sports.

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Class Education Supply Chain Sports 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. In everything it does, the company pays as much attention to its growth engine — its ability to manage innovation and launch consistently valuable products — as in any particular garment or device it sells.

Company 8

Company Engineering Apparel Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Before I turned to writing and starting an incubator, my last traditional office job was leading growth and innovation at a Fortune 100 company. Make those office sports leagues mean something. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). Create your own office decorations.

ROE 14

ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 14