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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you incorporate the following metrics into your decisioning framework you will minimize the chances of making a bad decision: Perform a Situation Analysis : What is motivating the need for a decision? What would happen if no decision is made? Who will the decision impact (both directly and indirectly)? I Think Not.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). It provides a comprehensive (yet very easy to read) summary of four decades of scientific research on human motivation, exposing a startling mismatch between what science knows and what business does. by Peter Senge. By Daniel H. Human Resource Champions (1996).

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

In my four decades as a senior manager, CEO, and corporate director of American high-tech companies, I have never seen the state of innovation in the U.S. Yet at no time in American history has it been so important to come up with innovative solutions. Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems.

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Are You Giving Up Power?

Harvard Business Review

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ).

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