N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

This process helps organizations align their current and future business goals, promotes employee career development, and ensures smooth leadership transitions. Incorporating diversity is not just ethically right; it’s also important for business success.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

While IBM would always fire employees for ethical violations, almost no one was fired because of poor performance. If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. As recently as 10 years ago global outsourcing was largely limited to manufacturing or lower-level service jobs.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve. The simple truth is that lowering standards is never a good thing in any environment.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

Using these publications as the main “currency” for career advancement has produced four unintended consequences. Third, evaluating professors’ scholarly contributions by counting their “A” journal publications incentivizes scholars to produce as many published studies as possible.

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Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

These relationships were essential in gaining the confidence of customers who had qualms about outsourcing to IBM. He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards. Patience and a long-term view. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand! It is not about you.

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Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 18

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

. “The most successful freelancers know how to use their network for all sorts of things, like outsourcing work when they have too much,” Horowitz explains. As with any career transition, it’s important to seek advice from those with more experience and expertise than you. Can you try it out?

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Planning Outsourcing Case Study Consultative 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Will it mean that you expect employees to follow a certain promotion path and career timeline? These types of leaders have not just an incredible passion and work ethic for what they do, but a cultural ethic in that how they do what they do inspires others. Embrace your frontline cultural ambassadors.

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