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Is Leadership Development the Answer to Low Employee Engagement? (Yes.)

N2Growth Blog

It is important to develop these apps, and the techniques associated with applying them, but what about the operating system that runs them? After all, some apps do not run on old antiquated operating systems. To run the numerous apps associated with leadership, we must update our personal operating system regularly.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

If you believe the hype, social media will immediately solve all your problems and require no time, energy or effort on your part. One of the things I look most forward to is watching Chris continue to develop and refine his thoughts as the medium advances and matures. link] Allan W. link] Allan W. Thanks for the great insights Rob.

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Hard Questions on Our Transition to Driverless Cars

Harvard Business Review

By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. As mobility changes around us, how should we approach our master plans for airports, car parking, high-speed trains, energy, ports, toll roads, and so forth? Of the large markets, the U.S.,

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

The loss of the investment-grade designation also accelerated other debt maturities. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures? Did the rating agencies understand that the acceleration of debt maturities brought on by a downgrade could cause a bankruptcy? Ethics Failure Finance'

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

The myth of Silicon Valley is that venture-funded entrepreneurship is a generalizable model that can be applied to every problem, when in actuality it is a model that was built to commercialize mature technologies for certain markets. “There are just too many unknowns, and that requires a different approach.”

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

For example, the French global energy player ENGIE recently tilted its primary dimension from product (such as power, services, and infrastructure) toward region in order to better serve its clients in the territories in which it operates. When a company reorganizes, it’s often because the strategy has also changed.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. should launch a “National Innovation Foundation” to invest in engineering and manufacturing R&D to mature emerging technologies and anchor their production onshore.