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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. Dorothy Dalton Hi Mike – I totally agree with you that it’s imperative that the best candidates should be selected for any position or activity regardless of gender, race or creed.

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Stress Test Your Company’s Competitive Edge with These 4 Questions

Harvard Business Review

In the figure below, these four competition types are positioned along two dimensions, which reflect two distinct questions: (1) “Are there customers for which to compete?” This “insourcing” of household chores hurt many of the small , service-oriented businesses that had previously handled these tasks.

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Aggressive Talent Wars Are Good for Cities

Harvard Business Review

Non-competes have contributed to the more rigid, vertically integrated, and prone to insourcing ethos of Boston’s high tech region. California’s lack of non-compete agreements is the reason Marissa Mayer could assume the position of CEO at Yahoo! immediately upon leaving its direct competitor, Google.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. .” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

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Zappos and the Connection Between Structure and Strategy

Harvard Business Review

The new approach was very successful, and Zappos scaled it by insourcing operations to increase efficiency and by expanding the product line to handbags, eyewear, and other clothing, to benefit from economies of scope. And it worked. Today, still under the marvelous management of Tony Hsieh, Zappos sales are well over $2 billion.