N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

E-learning Platforms: Utilizing online courses and learning management systems (LMS) makes learning accessible and flexible. Alex Osborn, the creator of brainstorming, discovered that teams who brainstorm can produce 50% more ideas than those who don’t.

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Surviving Leadership

JULY 24, 2019

Acacia HR Solutions CEO Sabrina Baker warns against approaching leadership development as a checkbox activity versus a commitment to the growth of their employees. Dorothy Dalton , CEO of 3Plus International, presents a compelling suggestion on how to get more women in leadership …and it involves leave for men.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Even the most functional of teams will sometimes disagree or experience infighting, which can be difficult to manage. Example : Hotel Housekeeping Staff Managers are approaching employees on their lunch break to assign tasks, discuss changes and give directions. Managers are frustrated, angry and sometimes shouting back.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2012

In articles in both the New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this year, the concept of brainstorming as introduced in the 1940's by Alex Osborn has been attacked as ineffective and linked to the concept of " Groupthink.". In her NYT piece and in an HBR ideacast , Susan Cain points out that the popular view — "Lone geniuses are out.

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Groupthink Brainstorming Osborne Consensus 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Drucker Forum 2015: Managing in the Digital Age. Osborne from Oxford University calculated that about 47% of American jobs could disappear by 2020 due to digitization. These include administrative or middle management functions, which have historically provided jobs for the middle class. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A.

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Maturity Drucker Osborne Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

So when you’re managing a team or working in a group, what can you do to help foster creative thinking? When advertising executive Alex Osborn popularized brainstorming in the 1953 book Applied Imagination, he predicted that it would double the number of ideas that a group of people would generate in response to a problem or challenge.

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Creativity Brainstorming Osborne Maslow 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2014

In fact, it’s from Stevenson’s list of pressures that pull managers away from entrepreneurship and towards administration. In Boston, I worked with many amazing public managers and a handful of outstanding public entrepreneurs. Of course, that’s not all bad. We must have more great public administrators.

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