N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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Globalization Leadership Conference Diversity 276

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

At the law firm Allen & Overy, the idea of replacing traditional, annual performance appraisals with a technology-enabled continuous feedback system did not come from human resources. Working with new technologies in new and nimbler ways creates the need for additional innovation in talent practices. Walker and Walker/Getty Images.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Occasionally I create a Team-Building program agenda that is good enough to share. Below is the Day-1 ‘Kick-off’ program to 4 months of work I will be doing with an IT Leadership Team. IT Leadership Director Team Building & Leadership Agenda – Kick-Off. Groupings Mixed Teams & Functional Teams.

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Team Building Team CTO Leadership 129

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2017

He calls it “gypsy chefs,” a team that roams. McManus’s reframing of leadership — the leader as the sidekick, the intern as the superhero — embodies three powerful principles that enable innovation and discovery. What are the obstacles standing in the way of your team? Be the beginner.

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Supply Chain NGO CTO Learning-by-Doing 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. That requires a new way of thinking about people and leadership. But there’s a model of leadership that will. Today’s changes are not unusual in scope or pace.

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Agility Banking Supply Chain CTO 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

This isn’t the fault of the technology or the CTO, who usually manages it. Because it involves software, many companies make it the CTO’s responsibility. In my experience, relationship leadership boils down to three essential components. It’s a result of misguided strategy. Turning data into action.

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CRM Execution CTO Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Rich countries are the most technologically advanced. We should be able to meet their needs with cheap products based on older technology. We excel in product leadership and advanced technology — values inconsistent with the ultra-low-cost products poor countries require.

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Chief Technology Officer CTO Constraint Engineering 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2013

With a tsunami of new digital technologies all converging simultaneously — social, mobile, cloud, analytics and embedded devices — there has been, once again, a cry for corporate IT to radically change to enable the digital transformation of businesses. There is no time for complacency. It requires new modes of operation.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. Now, instead, at ING they say, "Here''s your team.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Pro: Breakthrough technology can offer customers things they didn’t even know they needed.

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Productivity Products Core Competence Management 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

“When you’re a technical expert, you know your value to the organization,” says Wanda Wallace, President and CEO of Leadership Forum and author of Reaching the Top. She suggests shadowing team members for a day or even for a couple of hours and “asking a lot of dumb questions.” Face your fears.

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Management How To CTO Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. Consider the battle waged by IBM’s software development teams between competing methods for getting closer to customers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Do executives expect you to establish and incubate a growth businesses, act as a coach to existing teams, or focus on establishing a culture of innovation so that new ideas emerge organically? Are you expected to recruit a separate team from within and beyond the company? Innovation Leadership transitions'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. Willing to Take Chances.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Hill began to dig into the scholarship around leadership and innovation, she soon realized there was a lot of research on both. What most distinguishes innovation leadership, the book argues, is recognition that innovation is a “team sport,” not the act of a sole inventor. Willing to Take Chances.

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Education Innovation Execution Content 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company. This might have backfired with an executive team that wasn’t as competent and as open to discussion, or if Sanofi had gone about it in a different way — in either case, they could have reacted as if she were going behind their backs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

CIOs, tasked with turning technology into revenue, are themselves pounding the table demanding better requirements for Big Data initiatives. Most CMOs have woken up to the fact that technology is fundamentally changing what marketers do and we can’t treat IT like a back-office function,” says Jonathan Becher, CMO of SAP.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

That's often the case with founder-led companies in which the founder wants a team in which no one can emerge as a rival. This amplified the company's message about the importance of wireless technologies, even though McAdam (who later became CEO) would also preside over landline operations. Except for one thing.

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