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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It includes books by Peter Drucker, Charles Handy, Charles Koch, Jack Welch, and Bob Sutton. For those who read less, one strong motivator is to apply more of the ideas into innovative action plans for that day. I've found that they teach different lessons when you hold them up against the background of your new experiences.

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How Working From Home Affected Commercial Real Estate Values

The Horizons Tracker

Obviously, the death of the commute has been oft-prophesized, with Peter Drucker famously suggesting that we would no longer need to go into a physical office all the way back in 1989. Meaningful change. The huge shift seen as a result of Covid-19 may have been enough to drive more meaningful change, however.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Great leaders intrinsically understand that team building catalyzes collaboration, creates both disruptive and incremental innovation, facilitates a certainty of execution, and is one of the key foundational elements associated with creating a dynamic corporate culture. A team helps to create the best foundation for a decision or action.

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Josh Lerner: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Units. Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. He graduated from Yale College and Harvard’s Economics Department.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Lessons from the Three Cups of Tea Controversy

Harvard Business Review

To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Peter Drucker famously said that the point of a business was to create a customer. Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage.

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