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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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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). Perhaps a person that is watching over a product on a daily basis, but not really committed to its growth and success is a product manager, but a person who having more “skin in the game&# should be a product owner. Michael Reply Justin T.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Pressured with executive leadership commitments (usually in front of sales and customers) your team begins ducking and dodging the monkeys while trying to focus on bringing the right products to market. Commitment – demonstrate commitment to your product’s success. If you like the post, please comment.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Yellen, whose first workday as chair ( the Senate confirmed her as “chairman,” but the Fed seems committed to leaving the “man” out ) is today, got her PhD at Yale. What wasn’t really up in the air was whether the new head of the world’s most powerful central bank would have a doctorate in economics.

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Question the Euro Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Eurobonds, fiscal treaties, more austerity, declarations of commitment and credibility all vie for prominence alongside an increasingly restive populace for whom more of the same bitter medicine is no longer an attractive option — for the simple reason that it isn't working. What is less well understood is how to resolve it.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

The recent boom in auto-analytics, or "self-tracking," or "self quantification" has been playing out mostly as a consumer trend — as something we do during our leisure time to become more deliberate about personal fitness, finances, or diet. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.

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Entrepreneurs: You're More Important Than Your Business Plan

Harvard Business Review

As Amar Bhide said in " Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups " (a 20-year-old HBR article that is an uncanny precursor to today's "lean startup" meme), traditional business planning processes are less relevant to bootstrappers — where resilience trumps planning and energy trumps experience. In short, the business plan is overrated.