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Executive Search for Nonprofits: Creating Lasting Impact Through Leadership

N2Growth Blog

In today’s rapidly evolving social and economic landscape, many nonprofit audiences (and the organizations themselves) face greater challenges than ever, requiring strong, innovative, and creative nonprofit leaders capable of navigating complex issues with finesse and expertise.

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

Institutional investors, such as hedge funds, are increasingly active in terms of their attempt to influence the direction of the firms they invest in. The authors argue that this loss of talent is largely because of the uncertainty caused by the hedge funds activity. Lasting impact.

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Michael Fraccaro, CHRO at Mastercard, on the value of business resource groups

HR Digest

I was at a conference recently and one of the speakers remarked that “Culture hedges against the risk of uncertainty.” It can help them innovate. It can empower people to take a point of view and allow the organization to benefit from diverse points of view. That, I think gets to the heart of what the right culture can do.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

The book did quite well — it has been translated into 18 languages at this point, become part of the ongoing innovation dialogue, allowed me to present ideas to executives across the world, and to build a unique consulting firm with clients on six continents. came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase.

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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

The constantly fluctuating number of barrels of crude available from nimble shale operations is a primary driver, but so are the long-term impact of increased fuel efficiency and the fits and starts of the global transition away from fossil fuels on world demand. .—while The soaring U.S.

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How Samsung's Galaxy S4 Should Have Launched

Harvard Business Review

In terms of sales volume, product line diversity, operating system flexibility, R&D spending, and even customer loyalty , Samsung has emerged as a fierce competitor that has bested former industry champions like Nokia and Apple. How then can a new front-runner better manage market expectations and also strive to be more innovative?

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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Part of the problem is that the industry is still moving at warp speed, and the company has dwindling resources to deploy against innumerable innovation challenges. Dig deeper and you'll find that the diversity of views usually corresponds with how executives frame the problem.