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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

However this will rarely happen if lines of communication do not remain open. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes. Candid, effective communication is best maintained through a mutual respect and rapport.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sony, Gap, Yahoo, Nokia — that need to get it, don't. Take banking as a visible example. "This business model is right for a company selling Purina Dog Chow, circa 1970.".

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The False Promise of Free Capital Flows

Harvard Business Review

The models concluded — in a sort of "divine coincidence," as the MIT economist Olivier Blanchard and a colleague quipped — that if central banks merely maintained steady, low inflation, they would achieve economic stability and the best growth possible. Washington and London espoused this orthodoxy.

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Stop Paying Executives for Performance

Harvard Business Review

As the incoming Chief Executive of Deutsche Bank, John Cryan, recently said in an interview: “I have no idea why I was offered a contract with a bonus in it because I promise you I will not work any harder or any less hard in any year, in any day because someone is going to pay me more or less.”

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Let Your Employees Bring Their Interests to Work

Harvard Business Review

Mark might also have noticed that Jennifer continuously received messages from numerous global and local LinkedIn groups, was a member of a local choir, and had recently started a book club with like-minded friends. Mark and Jennifer are not alone. And how can they use that to improve engagement? Tribal thinking inside an organization.

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How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling

Harvard Business Review

Scharpf says her challenge in dealing with scientists, academics, businesspeople, community activists and policy wonks "is always, 'How do I speak in the same language to each of these different constituencies each with their unique language and objectives?'". Scharpf told me she recently ran an ad for SHE's first job opening in New York. "If

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Why Your Innovation Team Needs a Lawyer

Harvard Business Review

A regional bank wouldn’t allow sales teams to share a new marketing campaign on their personal Twitter and Facebook pages because they couldn’t officially represent the company. This is where the opportunity lies — in collaboration that includes the final approvers, embedding legal teams in the design and innovation process.