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Leadership and Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

In the text that follows, I’ll provide you with 4 constructs to help you evolve your thinking around digital transformation. Your business now operates as part of a global digital eco-system where leveling the playing field has become a digital impossibility. The best companies don’t play catch-up – they leap-frog.

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5 Leadership Lessons: The Velocity Manifesto

Leading Blog

[As a leader], you—not the IT department, nor the VP of IT, nor the chief information officer (CIO)—must understand, drive and be accountable for how technology is structured in order to reach the strategic goals of the operation….Technology The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.”

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

A few years ago Dave Ulrich, a management thought leader from the University of Michigan, made a comment I found both insightful and profound: “ Every leader needs to have a model of organization design.” An effective organization design model guides a manager in answering five fundamental questions in a thoughtful and well-integrated way.

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Build Your Bench Strength Without Breaking the Bank

Harvard Business Review

Many social enterprises start small and grow fast. Yet planning for future leadership needs falls between the cracks at most social enterprises. But it's critically important if yours is a fast-growing organization. In fact, research by the Center for Creative Leadership has shown that leadership is best learned on the job.

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Are managers particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change on their businesses? Part of the disconnect stems from what’s said by company leaders versus what a broad selection of managers think. If we believe the results of a recent MIT Sloan and BCG survey , the answer is no. But it may not be that dire.