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Do You Speak the Language of Performance Driven Execution?

N2Growth Blog

This is the common language in the field of Crisis Leadership that facilitates how to lead out from a crisis before it happens, and these six words allows leaders to use a different approach to out maneuver the potential for failure. It reveals specific details in four areas that describe the why, how, what and can of superior performance.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

Understanding your company’s DNA can help you know what you can and can’t do, and how to achieve agility and authenticity in a changing world. This became the “HP Way,” one of the first examples of empowering employees, decentralizing the organization, and tying pay to performance.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Here is some advice on how to tap into supply chains for successful scale-up: Reveal more than is comfortable. What helped Trolltech ultimately save the relationship was learning how to set expectations appropriately in light of the divergent cultures. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.