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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Only people have the skills to lead others. Specialized areas of expertise. Ingenuity.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Only people have the skills to lead others. Specialized areas of expertise. Ingenuity.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots. Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Why didn’t Folgers recognize the retail consumer demand for coffee and develop a Starbucks type business model? One of the challenges with disruption is the 'cultural' balancing act required to attend to a core competency (primary revenue driver) while simultaneously recognizing that disruption must occur at the borders.

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How Leading Companies Build the Workforces They Need to Stay Ahead

Harvard Business Review

By recognizing this critical gap early, GE has been able to develop strategies to close it systematically, over time. Develop and acquire the talent you need to close any gaps, starting today. ” The best companies work hard to match their hiring and talent development strategies with their future workforce needs. .”

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. It’s not just products.

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How to Compete When IT Is Abundant

Harvard Business Review

With the swipe of a credit card, the customer support team can move to Zendesk or Desk.com; the HR team lives on Workday; the business intelligence group moves to GoodData or Domo; the finance team logs into Netsuite; the marketing department orbits around Marketo and Salesforce''s marketing cloud.