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Executive Search for Legal Services: Balancing Scales and Skills

N2Growth Blog

Wilkins, Professor at Harvard Law School, notes, “Investing in leadership is about securing the intellectual capital and strategic vision that will determine your firm’s future.” That’s the level of foresight firms need if they’re to remain competitive in a landscape that rewards agility and innovation.

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Retain Your Top Performers

Marshall Goldsmith

Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. The rise in the influence of the knowledge worker. .

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Open Innovation: co-creation, and intrapreneurship

Innovation Excellence

He shares with us his thoughts on open innovation, brands co-creation, and intrapreneurship. 3) Co-creation is closely linked to open innovation: how would you balance between freedom and structure when adopting an open innovation approach? Keeping the open innovation entity distant or close to the corporation center?

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. economy, expands America's global trade, and attracts foreign companies to base operations in the U.S.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

As Dick Morley — an MIT manufacturing innovator with deep experience in the auto industry — put it to us, "the trouble with big companies is that they take nice high-risk, high-return opportunities, then manage the risk out of them to the point that there's no return left." Certainly, that's a fair accusation.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

But our 14 million workers, thanks to the machines they operate and the smart, disciplined way in which they work, produce about the same amount of stuff, measured in dollar terms, as China’s 100-plus million factory workers, according to a 2009 study by the BLS. This may all change as China innovates and grows.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review

For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% These and other benefits translate into better cost management, agricultural innovation, and increased land productivity and quality. of revenues) and $13 million to $62 million (0.01% to 0.7%