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The Ins and Outs of an Executive Director Search

N2Growth Blog

By crafting a thorough and enticing role description, you will better attract highly qualified candidates who align with your organization’s vision and mission. As an organization, it is crucial to utilize effective channels to reach potential candidates with the desired skills and qualifications.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

In every aspect of business, we are operating with mental models that have grown outdated or obsolete, from strategy to marketing to organization to leadership. ” In the field of marketing, our thinking is permeated by the mental model of mass communication. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning.

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The Metamorphosis of the CIO

Harvard Business Review

This is very different from the way large businesses have operated for decades. Eventually, businesses became department stores, specialty stores and malls, and finally, today''s e-businesses and networked organizations that support them. What does it mean to operate in a digital business ecosystem?

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How Leaders Can Let Go Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

The military’s solution has two parts: Commander’s Intent declares the purpose of an operation and the conditions for success. This means different things for product development, marketing, and customer service. It’s a distributed governance model for networked organizations.

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The Reinvention of NASA

Harvard Business Review

Since the Apollo program, NASA has faced funding cuts, competition from other nations for space leadership, and a radical restructuring of its operating environment due to the emergence of commercial space – all of which have forced the organization to change its ways of thinking and operating. The challenges facing NASA.

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Get Started with Big Data: Tie Strategy to Performance

Harvard Business Review

Opportunities may range from improving core operations to creating new lines of business — even in the same industry. In the case of a retailer we studied, data and analytics were part of a difficult battle for market share. This was the opposite of what consumers had indicated in traditional market research interviews.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

Whether providers like it or not, health care is evolving from a proficiency-based art to a data-driven science, from freelance physicians to hospital-employed physicians, from one-size-fits-all community hospitals to vast hospital networks organized around centers of excellence. Health Operations'