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Navigating the Path: What Does a Chief People Officer Really Do?

N2Growth Blog

This executive role focuses on developing and implementing human resources strategies to manage the workforce and create a positive organizational culture. The CPO empowers organizations to maximize their human capital potential and achieve long-term success by spearheading these efforts.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Will Artificial Intelligence Take Your Job?

Leading Blog

A PEW RESEARCH CENTER study found that Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently done by humans. Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job.

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The World of the 21st Century CEO

In the CEO Afterlife

History has shown us that the best performers were those who made the right strategic moves to create a future in which their company would enjoy significant competitive advantage. It’s going to get worse, even with advances in communications technology. Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Larry Page are excellent examples.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. .’ Some leaders strive for scale by ‘ doing more with less ,’ usually meaning fewer employees.

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Leading HR: Harnessing Social Power

LDRLB

Human Resource (HR) Departments are often seen as the enforcers of the organization; the unbendable glue that protects it from litigation and unscrupulous employees. Galbraith also wrote that “the long-term human resources role is to build social capital by creating richly connected interpersonal networks across the organization.”

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Dave Ulrich on The Four Waves of HR

LDRLB

HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources is Ulrich’s latest work (co-authored with Jon Younger, Wayne Brockbank and Mike Ulrich). HR Professionals must be able to position their organization to anticipate and match external implications and bolster their organization’s competitive advantage.

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