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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. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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Essential HR Strategies for Managing Gig Workers Effectively

HR Digest

Redefining Traditional Roles Gig workers operate outside conventional full-time roles, necessitating a deconstruction and re-evaluation of job descriptions within organizations. Performance-Based Incentives : Develop clear metrics that align gig workers’ tasks with organizational goals, rewarding them based on their performance.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

That said, buckle-up and join me for a ride as we journey into the politically incorrect mind of Mike Myatt… The institutionalization of “Politically Correct Thinking&# in the corporate world has done more to harm operating businesses than just about any other social and/or cultural influence in recent times.

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Why Sales Ops Is So Hard to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

According to “Spin Selling” author Neil Rackham, when Xerox first established a sales operations group in the 1970s to take on activities such as sales planning, compensation, forecasting, and territory design, group leader J. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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There’s No One System for Paying Your Global Sales Force

Harvard Business Review

It provides control over sales incentive spending around the world, and it simplifies plan management and administration.” ” Others argue that a single global incentive plan per sales role doesn’t work: “Sales is a local function. Diversity makes a global sales incentive plan impractical and dangerous.”

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Is Your Company Ready for the Rise of Smart Cities?

Harvard Business Review

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Companies that want to serve them directly often have to think outside the box when it comes to financing. Digital natives such as Didi and Uber are operating customer-facing mobility platforms in cities around the world.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

Trying to sell into a world of enormous corporate cartels is considerably more difficult than it was forty years ago, when every sector in America was smaller, more diverse and more dynamic. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.