N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. By its very nature politically correct thinking is most often disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

The business case for diversity is clear. Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. And many diversity programs fail. I asked three questions: Why do you care about diversity?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

They recognize the value of inclusion and diversity and believe it’s the right thing to aspire to. ” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. And sameness blocks performance and innovation.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Coastal city" has a new definition. But increasingly, at the local level, innovative approaches involving unlikely partners playing unlikely roles are disrupting the status quo and addressing seemingly unsolvable challenges like those posed by Sandy. Old assumptions about how to pay for what we need must be discarded.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Let’s start with a fundamental question: what is your definition of culture? It takes a certain kind of leadership and a certain type of thinking to knit together the pieces of a large, diverse, complex organization. Finance is different from sales, R&D is different from quality, and so on. That’s where innovation comes in.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the final analysis it’s really all a matter of perspective…you can either view yourself as part of a hierarchical world sitting at the top of the org chart puffing your chest and propping-up your ego, or you can view yourself as the hub at the center of a large and diverse network. I Think Not.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Clinging to obsolete definitions and viewpoints have a way of perpetuating companies into downward spirals. Companies that adopt new viewpoints and defy their conventional definitions will create new opportunities, organizational effectiveness, marketplaces and relationships. Honor the employees.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. Yet research suggests that workplaces where creativity and innovation are at a premium nurture and encourage people’s authentic differences. They also represent varying degrees of fabulousness, from subtle to full-on. But at what cost?

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. TopRank Marketing TopRank Marketing has been doing innovative and impactful work with interactive content and B2B influencers for huge brands like SAP, Dell, LinkedIn, 3M, and Oracle for over 18 years. That you don't need a strategy. But yes, they do!

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