N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. Share and Enjoy: View Comments Gordon R. This is a skill I believe many leaders do not develop until later in their careers. Best wishes Gordon… [link] Principal (le?)

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. Dov Gordon [link] mikemyatt Hi Dov: As with other endeavors, poorly conceived or unneeded restructuring efforts will not end well. I Think Not.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Technology change is speeding business up and providing an edge for disruptive innovators. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. 7 Steps to Problem Solving. 1: Define the problem. 2: Disaggregate.

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Disaggregation McKinsey Skills Gordon 81

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

Innovation takes courage and the willingness to be out in front rather than following the herd. The creativity to produce innovation can involve a great deal of improvisation rather than sticking to a fixed script. Straight-line careers are over-rated. It also takes dedication. Zig-zags might better serve companies and leaders.

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Gordon Crisis CEO Entrepreneur 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

More importantly, business education needs to evolve once again, revising its goals to educate leaders of the future who have a new set of skills: sustainable global thinking, entrepreneurial and innovative talents, and decision-making based on practical wisdom. Historically, business schools have so far been through two waves.

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Education Drucker Globalization Gordon 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

The answers “I am not up to much” and “I have some time on my hands, actually” are not going to do much for your internal status and career. However, that you are very busy all the time is actually a bit of problem when you are in charge of your company or unit’s strategy, and responsible for organizing it.

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Strategy Long-term Short-term Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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