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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. Oh, and what about development methodology? The Downside of Best Practices by @mikemyatt [.] I Think Not.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. If I'm candid, I had a difficult time finding female leadership bloggers that had the online influence that male leadership bloggers have. This isn't a gender issue, it's a blogging issue.

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World Business Forum – Day 1 Recap | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Joseph Grenny was up next talking about influence and leadership. Of all the topics on the agenda I was most excited to hear what Joseph had to say about influence. I have found that influence is often misunderstood, frequently abused, and rarely leveraged to its full extent. too much group think is a sign of poor leadership.

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Is Digitization Abetting the Jobless Recovery?

Harvard Business Review

These include continued stagnation in the construction and finance industries (which employed so many people when times were better), globalization and outsourcing, and the fact that job growth almost always lags other measures of health as an economy emerges from recession. A great many reasons have been offered for the jobless recovery.