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Leadership & Emotional Control | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Even if you don’t find yourself having to frequently deal with extreme situations, it is often nothing more than normal dealings in the ordinary course of business that can place you at a nexus…Do you make your decision based upon the facts at hand and sound decisioning metrics, or do you let your emotions drive your decisions?

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What to Do When Each Department Uses Different Words to Describe the Same Thing

Harvard Business Review

These issues grow more important as companies try to pull more and more disparate data together — to develop predictive models using machine learning, for example. Specialized vocabularies develop in the business world every day to support new or specialized disciplines, departments, problems, and innovative opportunities.

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14 Principles that Made Amazon

Skip Prichard

Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Given Amazon success, wouldn’t you want to understand and develop the flywheel that runs your business? There are a couple of principles which seem to stand out. What’s dangerous is not to evolve.”

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The Most (and Least) Empathetic Companies

Harvard Business Review

The analysis, which focuses on global companies, looked at CEOs’ approval ratings among staff; the ratio of women to men on the board; frequency of complaints; the companies’ performance on social networks; and the impact of controversy such as ethical lapses, scandals, and fines — among other metrics. Barratt Developments.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? The other approach, a skunkworks, can develop ideas that may require their own distribution channels, or compete with products that the company already sells. Start with a survey.