Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2024

As an executive leadership coach with years of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the significant impact that professional relationships can have on an individual’s career success. These connections can lead to career advancements that may have otherwise remained out of reach. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. Here is why your organization should be interested in partnering with an executive coaching company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

Many leaders go through their career (certainly once they get to a higher level) believing that their station or title in their company validates that their perspective is somehow best, or more insightful. In doing this leaders improve the lives and careers of their employees. And I’ve also seen the other side.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

One transformative strategy gaining popularity among leading companies is establishing a junior advisory board, also known as a shadow board. By collaborating closely with senior management on strategic initiatives, such a board offers a unique viewpoint that can significantly influence the company’s direction.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. A genuine firm will be transparent about its recruitment process , the companies they represent, and the roles they are contracted to fill. Your next career move is too significant to leave to chance.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Myth #1: Build a Billion Dollar Company. I personally blame my MIT classmate Aileen Lee, formerly with Kleiner Perkins, who coined the term Unicorn , a private company valued at over a billion dollars. To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation.

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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. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

You need to proactively help him develop a strategy for remaining marketable and valuable, helping him define a viable pathway for his career. Embarking on a new career pathway takes courage, especially if it’s substantially different from what this individual once envisioned for himself.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett Ah, the career transition! A career transition isn't just about shifting from Job A to Job B. That's precisely what makes the very idea of a career change daunting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In this episode, David Giersdorf, a former senior executive in the global cruise, travel, and marketing services industry, gives the roadmap for leading through disruption. It’s optimistic, encouraging, and full of opportunities to help you navigate your company, career, team, and life through the fog of disruption.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 23, 2022

1) Invest in Employees: Investing in an employee is one of the most effective ways to benefit all company stakeholders. By investing in employees, companies can create a positive working environment where employees feel valued and appreciated. It also helps to retain top talent that otherwise would have moved on to other companies.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As the sector evolves and expands, companies increasingly turn to executive search firms like N2Growth to help them identify and recruit top talent for critical leadership roles. Top executive search firms also bring a unique set of resources and expertise to the table when it comes to attracting top talent for biotech companies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

With extensive networks and deep industry insights, they provide organizations with access to top talent capable of leading digital transformation initiatives and steering companies toward differentiated long-term success. Staying abreast of emerging technologies and market dynamics is crucial for guiding organizations through transformation.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After a 20-year career at Marriott International working in operations, human resources, sales and marketing, Steve launched his own consulting company to help organizations improve their customer service operations. Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, organizations investing in future-focused leadership development report 34% higher adaptability to market changes. Convert Chaos into Clarity Distinguished leaders excel at extracting meaningful patterns from seemingly chaotic market conditions. These competencies form the foundation of future leadership success.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

External factors such as economic oscillations, market volatility, and industry disruptions drastically impact succession strategies. Evaluating the current market scenario, company status, and anticipated future changes is central to this process. Inflexible plans are the hidden Achilles heel of many organizations.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Forward-thinking companies are now recognizing the immense value that unconventional thinkers and innovators can bring to the table. My clients in Europe implemented a program where executives change jobs every three years and hold different positions within the company, making them diversified leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. Reconfigure for evolving markets. Reinvent the company culture. What lies beyond the edge is the opposite, an unfamiliar landscape barely coming into focus.

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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. Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Dig deeper.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It’s never too early to start thinking about your career, so we’ve put together a list of the best management careers in 2022. If you’re thinking of breaking into one of the best business management careers then we have some advice for you. What are the top management careers? An image of a man hard at work.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to my guest in this episode of my Leadership Biz Cafe podcast, what these and other successful companies share in common is that they’re all experience disruptors. How to use our company’s strengths to meet the unique expectations of our customer base.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Finding the right leaders in an industry that demands excellence, strategic vision, and a deep understanding of financial markets can drive success and stay ahead of the competition. In a constantly evolving industry, these leaders can quickly adjust their strategies and approaches to meet changing market conditions.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I recently had coffee with a newly retired HR executive for a Fortune 500 healthcare company and learned The Great Resignation had worked its way up to the executive shelf. Candidate Driven Market: Most active candidates are exploring at least two to three other opportunities while interviewing with your organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight. The Power of Trust : How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It by Sandra J.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2015

Although many companies caution workers about using social media, utilizing sites like Twitter and LinkedIn can go a long way in positioning you within your own company and as a leader in your industry. Never lambast your company or post anything inappropriate. This is a guest post by LGL Community member Scott Huntington.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. I experienced this personally in my corporate career. How can a leader put leadership first?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer The Chief Commercial Officer stands at the intersection of market opportunity and organizational capability. Entrusted with driving commercial strategy, this leader leverages company resources to maximize market impact and revenue growth. Leadership qualities are paramount.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JULY 1, 2024

Adaptability can propel your career with confidence and resilience by helping you learn how to be comfortable in changing environments and pivot quickly.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success. Blockbuster, Eastman Kodak, and Borders are but a handful of companies where process became habit and values became dogma, resulting in those companies becoming history.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 6, 2015

There are four main reasons my MBA students give me for wanting to work for the big guys versus a smaller company: prestige, salary/benefits, room for upward mobility, and security. When I ask these candidates, “Why would you consider leaving (insert prestigious, high-paying, great benefits, relatively secure company name here)?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2017

Aligning Marketing Vision and Management . David Grossman of The Grossman Group explains that when done well, internal branding is a powerful and proven strategy to drive engagement and the behaviors leaders want inside organizations, especially as it relates to a company’s ability to deliver on its brand promise.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

It doesn’t matter what your company peddles. Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. There is often a vast disconnect between what is important to a company’s executive body and what is important to front-line workers. A Solution in Four Words.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

Professional roles of introverts vs. extroverts Introverts and extroverts tend to migrate to career fields that play to their dispositions, says Moore. Moore sees a slow movement by companies to provide areas where introverts can retreat – Cain’s book refers to them as “restorative niches” – during the day to work thoughtfully.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

You may value the team and company putting time and resources into successful projects, but don’t want to see the company waste money on failing ones. Making sure this project is successful is important to me, and I think it’s critical that the company makes good use of limited resources.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

With experience working within the industry and advising today’s leaders in the space, I have witnessed firsthand the significant impact that highly innovative leaders can have on the growth and success of life sciences companies.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 26, 2023

When contemplating career choices, students commonly seek counsel from acquaintances, family members, and colleagues engaged in their desired professions. Research from Rensselaer explores how peers can influence the choices students make in terms of their careers.

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