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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

He is the poster child for a thoughtful, caring, empathetic, and committed leader who just also happens to be wicked smart. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better. Affiliates.

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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. logistics, and finance. A study by McKinsey specific to the business-to-business (B2B) area suggests that businesses that optimize QTC for end-to-end accountability significantly outperform peers that don’t. finance, I.T., Recall how the U.S.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., There has been no suggestion that Gupta betrayed any client confidences in his McKinsey days. from 1994 to 2003. These are not criminal charges.

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Why Boards Get C-Suite Succession So Wrong

Harvard Business Review

New reports from McKinsey and PwC paint a very bleak picture of C-suite succession practices in today’s corporations. Both consultancies have useful advice to help fix the problem: McKinsey describes how to set up effective integration plans, while PwC describes best practices for CEO transitions. Of course not.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Teach For America (TFA), founded in 1989 with the goal to eliminate educational inequity in the United States, has placed more than 24,000 high-achieving college graduates in some of America's neediest schools, building a cadre of young, committed, and enthusiastic classroom teachers.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

More than 190 member countries committed to “eliminate poverty in all its forms everywhere” by 2030, together with 16 other “big, hairy, audacious goals” — to use Jim Collins’ memorable phrase. A public commitment to such an effort creates an incentive to follow through.

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Greece in the Balance

Harvard Business Review

True, to the surprise of many analysts, the prime minister, Antonis Samaras, abandoned his earlier populist rhetoric and tried to sort out public finances. Predictably, Greece was unable to meet its commitment. But on the issue of administrative reform, his government procrastinated, wasting a valuable year.