N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

One of the most difficult areas for executives to wrap their mind around is how to unlearn legacy based thinking. And if outsourced, will it be done domestically or offshore, and who will manage the process? One of the most common reasons for pursuing best practices in a given area is to avoid having to “reinvent the wheel.”

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Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

In a new ranking of public companies without women in top leadership from Bloomberg Businessweek.com, it was revealed that 5.8% PUBLIC COMPANIES WITHOUT WOMEN IN TOP LEADERSHIP. 6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. Overall, women hold only 2.6% of board chairmanships. 1. AvalonBay Communities, Arlington, VA.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the "Everest" of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. The second is the value of distributed leadership—a team culture that allows every person to provide direction when he or she has expertise that will help the team succeed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. We did not formulate our own style but tweaked it to our leadership style and vision plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

They believe in strong, empowered global leadership, at both HQ and at remote sites. Some companies have succeeded at leadership by transferring strong leaders from headquarters to offshore location; others have done equally well by hiring locally in India and China. This will instill confidence and make them grow.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

As an example, a recent job posting on the website of a global healthcare company seeks an individual for a sales operations leadership position who can do the following: Strategy: •Contribute to the 1- and 3-year business vision as a member of the executive leadership team.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric. Leaders get too caught up in trivial things and don’t pay enough attention to leadership development. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic. Double your ratio of questions to statements.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do this, it created a score for each customer executive, reflecting their propensity and ability to buy the company’s offerings, so that sales and marketing approaches could be more effective. Using traditional human-crafted modeling, the company once employed 35 offshore statisticians to generate 150 propensity models a year.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. Start early to shift the leadership mindset. So early preparation is needed. Mold the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

They can also interface with carbon-based lifeforms — senior executives, product managers, CTOs, and CIOs. The large offshore providers, of which Mu Sigma is the largest, are also getting in on the big data game. They create new products and services for customers. You need them.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. By the summer of 2008 GE leadership wanted to sell the appliances business or spin it off. The union acted as a second set of leaders to help execute and reinforce changes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. To do so, business leaders must balance two apparently conflicting objectives.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro. "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

It’s especially hard for senior executives, who have got where they are thanks to the way they behave. That’s why executives often engage the services of a coach. To help with the transition, and in particular with the project, the company hired two new executives. Let me give you an example. They distrusted each other.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

The fact that many of the problems relating to crisis response and crisis management recurred in Japan, with the Gulf spill still freshly in mind, shows how easy it is to talk the talk on these matters of crucial importance, and how difficult to actually execute in the turbulence of low probability but high consequence events.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

“What companies want is a leadership base that at least somewhat parallels their customer base. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g. ” Related Video.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.

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