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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Leadership and Product Management

Lead on Purpose

Product management — at every level — is a leadership role within the organization. Product managers need to provide direction for how a product should be built, and through your understanding of the market, give them assurance they are building the right product.

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Manager vs. ?

Lead on Purpose

Leadership is more about the state of mind than the title. Leadership is a choice. The owner makes sure his product meets market needs. I think about the things I manage (personal finances, household, a team of people). Seth Godin covers this concept nicely in his book Tribes. The owner makes sure his products succeed.

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Guest Post: Watch Out for Flying Monkeys!

Lead on Purpose

Jim’s passion is product management and product marketing. With over 20 years of technology industry experience, he has a fresh and current perspective in leading product management teams and has a gift for taking conceptual ideas and turning them into strategic reality using methods based on market sensing best practices.

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Why Zuckerberg Is (Almost) Right About Great Talent

Harvard Business Review

Aligning speed-to-market, scalability, ease-of-use, robustness, resilience, maintainability and enhance-ability is what productivity really means. Whether in education, consulting, medicine, construction or finance, the 100X gap between median performance (and even 2X to 20X gap from "pretty good" performance) is becoming a New Normal.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

The most disruptive, unforeseen, and just plain awesome breakthroughs, that reimagine, reinvent, and reconceive a product, a company, a market, an industry, or perhaps even an entire economy rarely come from the single-minded pursuit of the busier and busier busywork of "business." So throw Frederick W.

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Five Good Reasons to Champion Auto-Analytics in Your Organization

Harvard Business Review

Nike believes so strongly in the growth and profitability of the "auto-analytic" market that it it's about to launch a " FuelBand " that measures oxygen consumption, motion, steps taken per day, and more. Frederick Taylor's early pig-iron experiments measured and improved factory worker performance.