N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” defend against “attack from beneath” and maintain your reputation for ethical operations. Because it can.

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Supply Chain Contract Manufacturing Outsourcing Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). But the U.S.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low. Over the last thirty years, the lean approach — developed by Japanese automakers — has permeated the manufacturing sector in developed countries, but is much less commonly used in the developing world. Locke of Brown University.

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Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

When an executive at global services firm UBS Americas challenged trainees to design a cost-saving strategy, one young woman proposed that the company install software that puts a computer into sleep mode after a period of inactivity. They: Create a robust pipeline of their company’s next generation of talent. Spur innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

But from a business person's point of view, Sorkin and other writers in the section don't even discuss one of the most important developments of the last 25 years: the rise in the role, status and importance of the general counsel and other inside lawyers employed directly by the corporation.

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 14, 2019

In it, he interviewed me about my approach to personal development. He’s operated in the real world of real work (he was formerly a marketing executive at Ernst & Young) and still consults for many companies in multiple industries. Personal responsibility can’t be delegated or outsourced. Frank Sonnenberg.

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Advice Short-term Follow-up Ethics 77

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

These are typically specific, functional abilities like project management, web development, financial analysis — or advisory skills that come from years of experience. “If you’re 22 and you’re not a web developer, you probably don’t have marketable skills,” he warns. Can you try it out?

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Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2016

They go through the expensive gyrations of outsourcing, in-sourcing, testing, interviewing and finally hiring. But what they really mean is, “I need this person to have these skills in order to succeed in my company.”. The lesson here is that attitude and work ethic are more important than sales skill. I’ve developed 13.5

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Customer Loyalty Ethics Seminar Outsourcing 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

How to Pick the Right Consultants for Your Company. Selecting the most appropriate consultant for your company and optimizing their expertise is the greatest challenge facing a decision maker. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. People Often Say They Have… But Really Haven’t!

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Any company or organization is like a tree. Business development. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Cash outlays are always risks. by Hank Moore. Running the business.

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Budgeting Planning Strategic Planning Competitive Advantage 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. A company's foreign sales can approach or exceed 50 percent; its non-U.S. employees can be 25 percent or greater of total workforce; its supply chain of third parties is vital.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Great founders start businesses not to create a company but to solve a problem, to serve a calling, and to understand that they have a purpose that can actually make a meaningful difference. Over 30 years, he shaped a large part of its people development program, and taught me the framework of “common values and common standards.”

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Company Self-aware Long-term Mission Statement 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2012

But things get complicated when we tell a manager, "In general your talent development is great, but you suck at promoting diversity." We need to teach all of our people to talk about human topics — the ones that are conventionally outsourced to Human Resources or just plain avoided as "non-business" conversation.

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Diversity Conference Human Resources Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

More than ever, it is the directors’ responsibility to determine when and how their company should engage in political activities. But do board members actually know how to provide proper oversight and help their companies navigate this perilous landscape? Our contention is no. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012.

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