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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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Most Organizations Still Fear Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Most organizations, however, still view social media as a threat to productivity, intellectual capital, security, privacy, management authority, or regulatory compliance. In just a few years, social media has come to dominate many of our personal communications. We collaborate daily, sometimes productively, sometimes not.

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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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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. You see evidence of companies' different DNAs in the ways they react to risks and opportunities. This is the other "hard" part of DNA: strategy.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Businesses are, on average, far less adaptable, innovative, and inspiring than they could be and, increasingly, must be. When a company misses the future, the fault invariably lies with a small cadre of seasoned executives who failed to write off their depreciating intellectual capital. Bureaucracy is the technology of control.