N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

You’ve managed the same team for the past five years — then one day you find out that your most successful employee uses cognitive-enhancing drugs on the job. Because these drugs are — for the most part — safe, effective, and easy to get, they pose several ethical challenges for both workers and organizations.

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Ethics Stress Policies Morale 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Making these hybrids work over the long term is difficult, because their incentives work against each other. Platform and publisher incentives are better aligned when a platform is new. Business models Internet'

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Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Our research focused not on the success of this initiative, per se , but on the impact of lean production on the workplace. Workers tend to earn more and report higher engagement with their jobs. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 8

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 8

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

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Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

When Marijn Dekkers became CEO of Bayer — and the first non-German CEO of a DAX 30 company — he knew he’d have to explain why an extremely successful, 150-year-old company might want to change. One of our most important current innovations,” he wrote, “may not be technological. It’s simply good business.

Diversity 8

Diversity CEO Skills Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

“You need to be clear to this person about how his level of effort has consequences in terms of his chances of promotion, financial incentives, and choice assignments,” she says. ” Over a four-year period, Genesis had over a dozen successful launches within Ford. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.

Delegation 8

Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Finally, after tough negotiations with Republican leaders, the President announced a comprehensive tax package that not only addressed income, capital gains and estate tax rates, but also the AMT, unemployment insurance and many expiring individual and business tax credits and incentives. What’s in the Tax Bill?

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. Communications.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57