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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

My goal was to meet with a globally diverse group of thought leaders and top executives to discover what is required to lead in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. We would then develop a series of social media posts that focus on a particular topic related to either leading, followership or mentoring.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

One retail CTO summed it up well at a recent SAS event when he said, “We don’t want to just struggle through and be hanging by our fingertips when the economy recovers. Joel Barker says you can innovate faster, cheaper and with less risk by developing innovations at the verge. We want to come out strong.” Innovate quickly.

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How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict

Harvard Business Review

Planning Poker is predominantly used by software developers, but it can facilitate virtually any business decision. As Etsy CTO John Allspaw says , people are “the most expert in their own error. Come to a common understanding about which conflicts can be resolved without the involvement of others.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically?

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

There are core competencies that every PM must have – many of which can start in the classroom – but most are developed with experience and good role models and mentoring. If the best PMs have well developed core competencies and a high EQ, does that mean that they are then destined for success no matter where they work?