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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

Digital transformation starts at a strategic level with leadership being committed to change. The six I’s stand for individual, innovation, information, incubation, intelligence, and investment. “We Next, the ideas are incubated. We call it the Cognitive iSix framework,” Jean-Louis said.

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Why Corporations Have a Talent Problem

N2Growth Blog

When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure and obsolescence. The value organizations should be cultivating and curating in people is their ability to align purpose, vision, values, character, and commitment with demonstrated competency.

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Speed Dating Can Help Relationships Between Mentors And Mentees

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers analyzed 54 speed dates and found that these initial meetings can often turn into long-term mentoring relationships, but that this often depends on the nature of the feedback given during the session, as well as the way potential mentors utilized their expertise and whether there was a commitment to actioning the feedback.

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Writing while angry

Surviving Leadership

The reality of the fact that they’re basically committing suicide doesn’t hit until the first few deaths. King’s writings came to mind because we are living in a society that incubates violence. You see, anyone who drops below 4 mph a certain number of times is killed on the spot. We are drowning in violence. They are evil.

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Why Character-Based Leadership? (A Book Excerpt)

Lead Change Blog

In a previous post, we shared how the Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. . Those who have been told not to think but just to do expect the same from others.

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Looking For Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Here’s the thing…you really don’t need to work too hard to identify leaders within an organization – they are the ones taking on the greatest levels of responsibility and delivering on their commitments. I agree that actions speak louder than words and lead by example is a great way to generate committed followers.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

Instead, it would serve as a connector, recruiting local business leaders to commit to helping entrepreneurs. They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization.