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PRINCIPLES OVER PROCESS

N2Growth Blog

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. Engineered to Win.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

For example, they might say, “We’re a bank,” or “We make office furniture,” or “We’re in the pharmaceutical business.” For example, if you asked Larry Page, CEO of Google, to define his company, do you think his answer would be, “We’re a search engine”? This is quite understandable. Not very likely.

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The Three Main Organizational Drivers

Great Leadership By Dan

seeks to make profits, but their primary actions are designed to increase their influence, their market share, their breadth. ? analyzes potential products, services, and markets carefully to identify the most profitable avenues, then pursues those avenues for as long as the profits meet expectations. ?

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Priorities for Jumpstarting the U.S. Industrial Economy

Harvard Business Review

Science and engineering professionals work closely with experienced technicians to produce next-generation batteries, not forged metal. ” The defining characteristics of companies in this super-sector are a commitment to innovation and a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills in the workforce.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies.

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Leading in Complex Times

Harvard Business Review

I found myself reflecting on this recently while speaking with two business leaders in one of the world’s great pharmaceutical companies. It seems to me that this emphasis on authenticity is an important counterbalance to earlier assumptions that people gained leadership powers by dint of titles or positions in hierarchies.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

Consider the recent phenomena of shoestring 3D design labs or the biofabrication labs at MIT , which are taking the plunge into synthetic biology with far fewer resources than the genetic engineers at government labs. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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