N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Understanding the Evolving Roles of Chief Marketing and Chief Digital Officers In today’s interconnected marketplace, the role of the CMO extends far beyond traditional advertising and brand management. At the same time, marketing insights inform the development of digital tools and services.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

I think the real disruption does not derive from technology, but from the changes technology brings to business models. No wonder that specialists and managers that have invested years gradually improving a process do not advocate nor gravitate toward abrupt change. Most larger organizations are not good at managing change.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2013

Posted in Community Involvement Leadership Development Light Your World [link] Tyler Gage and Dan MacCombie are the founders of one of my favorite startups ever,Runa. Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. Tyler shares their story [.].

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. Engaging in risk management and scenario planning is also paramount.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

I’ve coached literally thousands of entrepreneurs in my twenty years in higher education and the business world, and have owned multiple businesses during that time. Between my research and that experience, I’ve developed some insights into what makes a venture a success or a failure. Idea people are more comfortable with risk.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

Trap #1: Neglect: Sticking with Yesterdays Business Model Things change. Every component of your business plan needs to be objectively examined for potential vulnerabilities. What is important is to develop a culture that constantly asks the questions: Where do we go from here with what is working?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Welcome to the March Leadership Development Carnival! It depends on your business model and strategies. Development. Jon Mertz of Thin Difference submitted The True Test of Leadership Development: Hiring or Promoting? Jon shares: “What is the true test of leadership development? Communication.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. From experience keeping an eye on a candidate’s knowledge of how a specific business model works are essential and non-negotiable.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

By partnering with N2Growth to place their next commercial leader, organizations aiming to capitalize on these strategic opportunities benefit from expert guidance on leadership development, executive selection, and the nuanced facets that underpin high-performing commercial functions.

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Innovation Excellence

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For several reasons, such as disruptive threats, digitalization or blurring industry boundaries, established companies are increasingly forced to create new business opportunities, i.e. to come up with adapted or even entirely new business models. Shrinking life times of established business models are tied to the fact that.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In addition, the CCO manages and implements strategies to drive revenue growth, break into new market segments, and foster customer engagement. Above all, risk management skills and sound business acumen are required to drive profitable growth and sustainable business expansion.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

These changes have necessitated new capabilities and forced even the most established players to make radical departures from their business models. Sign 3: Stagnation or deterioration of individuals or the team While changes in the business environment or a new mandate are hard to ignore, the third sign is more easily overlooked.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

This essay explores the concept of resilience in the context of business and outlines strategies for building a sustainable business model that can withstand and even capitalize on change. Resilient businesses anticipate and prepare for challenges, leveraging their strengths and resources to navigate uncertainty effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

A fter reading Gartner’s report on How to Build Leadership Bench Strength , these are my conclusions: HR already invests 23% of its Training and Development budget in Leadership and 27% on the high potential professionals. In addition, executives are investing more time in succession management activities.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 2, 2021

The move towards service-based business models has been notable for a number of years, with companies like Rolls-Royce being among the pioneers, with their “Power by the Hour” model. It’s a business model that has been especially hard hit by a Covid-19 pandemic in which so much activity has been curtailed.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

The Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer, or CRO, is absolutely essential for propelling business growth. They are responsible for managing and optimizing all revenue generation processes within an organization, and their decisions can significantly impact the company’s financial success.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Let me take this thinking one step further…I simply wouldn’t recommend clients accept capital from investors who can’t wield influence on their behalf, and add significant non-financial value to their business model. Hint: it’s not about the money. .

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement. If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2017

In the post , The Biggest Barrier to Your Team’s Development? Team building is an important part of managing a small business workforce. American Business models began to move away from “command-control” in the 1990s. Follow Jesse. A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. In today’s post I’ll examine the benefits of, and the need for corporate reengineering… Anybody could be a CEO if business were a static proposition. They make changes.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 27, 2017

Even seasoned senior managers look to continually enhance their skill sets to differentiate themselves from other job seekers. Management job seekers with lean management experience can separate themselves from the competition. Here are five reasons: Companies Invest in Lean Management, Creating Lean-Related Jobs.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Facility managers should be rewarded for maintaining highly sustainable environments, not merely reducing costs. Finance and development providers should be rewarded for sustainably managing what exists already, rather than pursuing new ventures. Move to a more circular business model.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” When faced with a potential threat of technology or business model disruption, you need to consider two things.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

Ren's journey guides readers through numerous factors necessary for success, including building a solid team with strategic placement of individuals in carefully selected roles appropriate to their skill sets and crafting the all-important business model. To our surprise, solving the four problems changed who we were as a company.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

Traditionally, entrepreneurs love to talk about their product, but investors need to know about more than just the product - the market, the team, competitors, business model, etc. Then it’s time to move on to why it’s better than other solutions, followed by the business model and how you are going to make money.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The fast-paced expansion of FinTech companies into long-distance geographies has increased the Penrose effect , thus escalating the managerial constraints affecting organizational growth and development. Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2019

Then in the late ‘90s, early 2000s, we had the tech bubble, and the old business model began to come apart. They were just crazily developing things, business model be damned. Or should there be a single product management group within the business unit? But there’s always tinkering to be done.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

Here, the authors share how to develop that perspective: How we see the world—our leadership perspective—shapes our thoughts, decisions, and actions. What unlikely metaphors and connections can help you come up with an innovative mental model and a business model for your work?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model. If so, you likely have issues with conflict. Real leaders don’t play favorites, don’t get involved in drama, and they certainly don’t tolerate manipulative, self-serving behavior.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2015

Welcome to the July 2015 Leadership Development Carnival! Art Petty of the Management Excellence Blog by Art Petty shares Leadership Caffeine: Becoming Agile and Adaptable is THE Leadership Issue. Art asks us to think about “our willingness to let go of dated thinking and obsolete approaches to leading and managing.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. If you possess no competency whatsoever give yourself 0 points.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In the US, new online firm Betterment has made it remarkably easy for ordinary customers to set up and manage investment portfolios. By making it clear that the business is open to new ideas, leaders can help create a culture that stimulates them. Their steady, reliable business model of the past is no more.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

To think of it this way “ obscures Alibaba’s breakthrough business model and the window it provides on how the economic scene is evolving.” The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

Their business model is unique and there are so many lessons for our businesses and organizations from their story. I studied indigenous Amazonian languages and Ethnobotany in college and managed to avoid taking any math, science or business courses (yes, I went to Brown University).

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