Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 11, 2010

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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. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction.

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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

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Topping the list of experiences is a thorough understanding of your marketplace; most often, your candidate will have previously operated as a senior leader within a relevant sector. A prominent divisional CEO at a billion-dollar MNC may have sat in on corporate board meetings and presented their region or division updates.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The Chief Operating Officer is an organization’s powerhouse, ensuring every process and experience in your business runs like a well-oiled machine. This key executive monitors daily operations, ensuring efficient and effective methods. Tech Savviness: Leveraging technology to boost operational efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. When leaders are pressured into leadership styles that go against their natural way of operating, they are set up for failure. Focusing solely on skill development Early in my career, I worked as a corporate trainer.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills. They make bad decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of directors, only to find themselves wondering what went wrong as they were being ushered out the door prior to the expiration of their employment agreement. As a CEO, your board can be one of your greatest allies.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. A key point for all leaders to consider is that it’s impossible to stick your foot in your mouth when it’s closed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Rebooting Work by Silicon Valley legend Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler is a sensible look at the changing nature of the workplace and how you can use emerging technologies to take charge of your career. To become a CEO of your own destiny. We may move from frame to frame but we tend to operate in one. Companies are changing too.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

Operational – Know how the organization works inside and out. Sit at home and map out your operational chain from start to finish. What other elements do you feel play a key role in defining you as CEO material? The post Developing The CEO Within You. Know this area cold. Where are the dependencies?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&# If CEOs spent half as much time on talent initiatives as they do complaining about talent, their companies would see significant improvement thus obviating the need for all the complaining.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Look in the mirror and own your natural-born strengths and fix any real or perceived career-limiting deficiencies. The author will inspire readers to examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the model that has served him in his distinguished career. Dig deeper. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2010

As Chairman and CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publishing company in the world, and the seventh largest trade book publishing company in the U.S., I had a lot of success early in my career. Humble, authentic leaders who really understand their craft are equally scarce. Michael Hyatt : Very much so.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Following are 8 things I suggest you reflect upon should you desire to continue to develop as a leader: Never Stop Learning : I’ve never understood leaders who make heavy investments in personal and professional development early in their careers, who then go on to make only minimal investments in learning once they have reached the C-suite.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our meetings with CEOs and HR directors, it is evident there is a growing concern within organizations needing to strengthen current leaders and support the bench of the future ones. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. My question is this…since when have fear and avoidance become prerequisites for success as a CEO? That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The thread that runs through his career is the entrepreneurial mindset. The range of his life and career demonstrate the broad relevance of the principles he describes in this book and make for a fascinating read. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

The CEO and founder Josh Reich has focused the whole company on a simple premise: giving a (you know what) about the customer, AND each other. I asked the Simple representatives on the panel about their customer service culture, and how their CEO was involved with it. What was so disruptive about it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Sadly, the reality is messaging is so impactful that it will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance. I have witnessed on numerous occasions CEOs with average, or even sub-par performance histories fare well because they possessed great messaging skills.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

I’ve never understood leaders who make heavy investments in personal and professional development early in their careers, who then go on to make only minimal investments in learning once they have reached the C-suite. Learning and development are lifelong endeavors.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company can’t be operated by mere mortals, you need to reexamine your business logic.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. She is also author of The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

These silos are staffed with legions of “tenured&# COBOL and C++ programmers, as well as &# tenured&# IT managers overseeing the operation. Walking into these organizations is often like traveling back in time 20 years.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

He highlighted the need for change as the main prerequisite of a successful transformation; being ex-McKinsey and a public official before this current role, Boris’s whole career revolved around extensive transformation processes. Step 4: Operations alignment. Step 2: Culture alignment. Step 3: Strategy alignment. And why is that?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others.

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