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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application?

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Why Every 21st Century Sales Leader Needs to Be a Creative Problem Solver

Great Leadership By Dan

In my work with SalesGlobe I’ve developed Sales Design Thinking SM to help sales leaders solve problems around any sales or business challenge, like sales strategy, organization design, sales capacity, sales compensation, change management, and of course quota setting. As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.”

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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize a SaaS, ASP or cloud-based solution, or embark upon developing a custom application?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now.

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Distinguish Yourself from the Market, Not Just Other Applicants

Harvard Business Review

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Located at the home office, she developed long-term relationship with her clients. Find a market niche. But they weren't.

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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. .” They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites.