N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Besides providing stellar legal advice to clients, they’re a leadership development factory helping young lawyers sharpen their leadership acumen and soft skills at every step of their career. Not only can lawyers become an effective team and group leaders in their law firms, but they can also become successful CEOs in any industry.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

As a CEO, success isn’t just about achieving your own personal goals. Here are the top ten habits of successful CEOs that get results: Prioritizing time: Successful CEOs focus on the most important tasks and responsibilities. Setting clear goals and expectations: Successful CEOs are clear about what they want to achieve.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. At the end of the year, Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison releases The Five Graces of Life and Leadership.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The New CEO : Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly (Minus the Common Mistakes) by Ty Wiggins Becoming a CEO is a high-stakes moment, whether it's your first, second, or third time in the seat. What you say and how you act in your early days as CEO sets the tone for how you'll be perceived for years to come.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Experienced leaders changing roles, consider the outsider CEO trend. For example, IBM hired Lou Gerstner as CEO in 1990s rather than promoting from within. A few years ago, Ed Whitacre took over as CEO at General Motors even though he had limited experience in the automotive industry. Rookie leaders face a different challenge.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Over the last 20 years, I have had the opportunity to recruit, develop, and hire hundreds of leaders, from first-line managers to CEOs, across all major business functions and industries around the globe. We are given powerful moments in our lives and our careers where we have the chance to galvanize the people around us.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

35:08 – 36:36 | Overcoming Barriers to Fun at Work Phil shares a story of a CEO who misunderstood laughter in the break room as a lack of seriousness. 41:13 – 42:18 | The Impact of Caring Leaders Phil recounts an experience with a former boss who canceled his entire afternoon to discuss Phil’s career goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2021

We’ve had everyone from CEOs to frontline supervisors tell us: These leadership skills are all so simple and foundational. How to Build Great Culture: Even if You’re Not CEO. More Leadership articles on Careers in Government. And you know what? They make a HUGE impact. See Also: How to Be an Even Better Leader.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 21, 2024

Research from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) found that a CEO’s last name can significantly impact their job security and boost their pay by as much as 4.9%. perceived CEOs’ last names and where they came from. This perception was then linked to CEO pay and job security. after these countries opposed the U.S.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Let’s Grow Leaders Q&A In a recent post we invited you to send us your biggest leadership challenge. We received a great question from a healthcare leader in the United Kingdom. It’s a question we hear all the time from audience members […].

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d. Many things actually.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

20:02-24:22: Addressing the CEO’s perspective, the conversation highlights the underlying reasons for wanting employees back in the office. A couple of examples are the role of insecurity as a driving force behind striving for excellence and the importance of self-evaluation.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

In Be Where Your Feet Are , this CEO of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Devils offers his own story of grief and healing, and shares his most valuable lessons in what keeps him present, grounded, and thriving as a father, husband, coach, mentor, and leader. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JANUARY 16, 2023

Learn how an award-winning CEO transformed a once struggling organization by improving its workplace culture. Today’s guest post is by Thane Lawrie, author of The Buddhist CEO (CLICK HERE to get your copy). I have just published a book called The Buddhist CEO , but in many ways I was the accidental CEO.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2020

Jane Miller has an incredible track-record of business leadership success including roles as CEO for a variety of food businesses making nutritious (and tasty) products. Jane Miller has an incredible track-record of business leadership success including roles as CEO for a variety of food businesses making nutritious (and tasty) products.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The dilemma is that we all need to collaborate more to create effective organizations and vibrant careers for ourselves. Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true in our own personal and professional lives.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Good Power : Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World by Ginni Rometty Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty recounts in Good Power , her groundbreaking path from a challenging childhood to becoming the CEO of IBM and one of the world's most influential business leaders. The result: mixed signals.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2020

I have seen examples in multinational enterprises, where the appointment of a new CEO resulted in a change of atmosphere within a few weeks. This phenomenon happened not just to the people working closely with the CEO, but also with people who had never even met the new CEO. However, this is only partly true.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

As part of my new book, The Future Leader , I interviewed more than 140 CEOs around the world and asked them each to define leadership. Consider these two definitions from CEOs I interviewed. Judy Marks is the CEO of Otis Elevator and leads a team of over 70,000 employees around the world. What Makes a Great Leader?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

A prominent divisional CEO at a billion-dollar MNC may have sat in on corporate board meetings and presented their region or division updates. The CEO must maintain control and keep to their script but accommodate active member involvement. Build trust through credibility among peers and employees within the workforce.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Throughout the book, Novelli argues that you can make a positive social difference regardless of what business you are in or where you are in your career. Readers will come away with the message that anyone who wants to have a positive impact on the world can do it right now from where they are?or

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2024

Davis explains what the science of personality is and how it works, and how all of us can use it to improve our working relationships, careers, and lives. More specifically, his success in his military and corporate careers was predicated on the people who worked with him, and for him. Now, he is sharing it with the world.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Further, the approach taken early in a career can help or hinder in the future, and that goes for any field. from Austria in 1939 and embarked on a long career in the energy and chemicals industry with seven of his own scientific patents. He was the founder and CEO of Chem Systems, Inc. Spitz immigrated to the U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Starbucks announced yesterday that Laxman Narasimhan will replace CEO Howard Schultz as the company’s new CEO. Named interim CEO, Schultz has been CEO and Board chairman off and on at the company for over 35 years and is chief architect of their culture. Beyond that, the two followed very different career paths. .

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

ChatGPT is everywhere.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

During one of the most turbulent times in Silicon Valley history, Brad Smith was the steady-handed, innovative, and always resilient CEO of Intuit. Lots of practice is required, but it will pay off 100X throughout a career. But how come some people seem to “fail forward” even when times are tough? Go ahead and try.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. Research points out that while nearly half the population is introverted, extroverts hold the majority of leadership roles.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What’s more, many of these C-suite positions typically don’t have a set career path, so women can use various avenues to get there, and CEOs should pave the way for them to do so in 2021. . There’s great value in resilient leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 12, 2022

Keith Smith, CEO of Vonco Products, is on a social mission to help those seeking to live a more empowered life, cultivate innovation, overcome fear, or become a more effective leader. Being clear about the value that you’re bringing to the world at any level of an organization or at any place in your career. Connect with Keith.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Alan Mulally , the former CEO of Boeing , started his career there as an aerospace engineer. In 2006, he transitioned to the CEO of Ford Motor Company. Conversations with Bill Ford , the former CEO, industry experts and his team leaders helped him understand the direction he needed to steer.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

I know this first hand from three charity CEOs that I coach. All three of my charity CEO clients are transformational leaders. Throughout my career in public service, I led from an aligned values position though mismatch occasionally occurred, and upheaval happened. Remotely doing so adds to their burden.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. Hiring, Think Tangentially: The ideal candidate may not materialize from a traditional CEO profile, meaning their resume might look different from expected.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this heartfelt episode, Tim Lupinacci, CEO and Chair of Baker Donaldson Law Firm shares his leadership journey and how you can invest in continuous learning and personal growth. 07:21 – CEO Confessions: What’s it like for a CEO of a big law firm to admit dealing with imposter syndrome?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You will follow the impressive career journey of Lutoff-Perlo, from her stories as an ambitious young woman to first women President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises to Vice Chairman for External Affairs at Royal Caribbean Group. Today brings the new and inspiring book, Making Waves , by Lisa Lutof-Perlo.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2024

A new study from researchers at Florida Atlantic University has found that CEOs who are not originally from the country they work in are more likely to lose their jobs if the company they lead is not doing well. The findings highlight the potential for bias in how boards make their decisions. ”

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

But people still turn to human managers who can understand how they feel, c oach them in their careers, and build culture. According to a recent Price Waterhouse Cooper CEO survey, 77 percent of CEOs say they struggle to find the creativity and innovation they need. If you’re not sure, you’re not alone.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success , I spoke about the importance of hiring people with common sense and good critical judgment because at some point, you want them to violate policy when it is in the company’s best interest to do so. When my boss and the CEO returned from their trip, I told them what I had done.

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