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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

The reality is best practices are nothing more than disparate groups of methodologies, processes, rules, concepts and theories that attained a level of success in certain areas, and because of those successes, have been deemed as universal truths able to be applied anywhere and everywhere. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Why Best Practices – Aren’t

N2Growth Blog

The reality is best practices are nothing more than disparate groups of methodologies, processes, rules, concepts and theories that attained a level of success in certain areas, and because of those successes, have been deemed as universal truths able to be applied anywhere and everywhere. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Into The Storm: 4 Lessons In Teamwork From The High Seas

Tanveer Naseer

And what lessons can we learn from this team of “amateur” sailors to make our own teams more successful? One of the keys to the Midnight Rambler ‘s success was their ability to recover quickly from setbacks. And like individuals, teams can develop the capacity for rebounding from pressure and setbacks.

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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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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Some of the nuggets that Jim did disseminate were as follows: Success that translates in hubris leads to failure. Never confuse power with leadership. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making. Don’t waste time trying to be successful, spend time being useful. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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

Harvard Business Review

And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? 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. The top thirty companies are shown below.