Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Contracting to outsource An organization’s boundaries begin to blur when it engages in outsourcing — the opposite of vertically integration — as some activities previously done in-house are contracted to outside organizations or individuals. Some outsourcing has been around for a long time.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2017

Digital transformation is really more of a leadership, culture, strategy, and talent issue than a technology issue. Don’t outsource the hard rigor of transformation – insource it by getting smarter, faster, and more creative.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 28, 2019

Leadership Tip: Don’t be afraid of how people will react. Don’t tell people that the answer lies in insourcing or outsourcing or technology or big data or acquisitions or divestitures… Let them conclude for themselves what the answers are, having explored your broad question, from the universe of possibilities you open to them.

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