Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

But underlying Federers and other top athletes outsized success is rigorous devotion to routines and practices that optimize their state of mind and body for high-level performance. For example, evidence shows that for most of us, operating on fewer than six hours of sleep is equivalent to operating while drunk. In the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

At N2Growth, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations prioritize the employee journey as a central tenet of sustainable success. Rather than treating staff as a function of operations, executives are leveraging an employee-centric ethos to spark innovation and drive sustainable growth.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning in Business Succession planning is a strategic commitment to future-proofing an organization. A robust succession plan also builds a culture of continuous learning, where employees are engaged, curious, and motivated to develop their skills.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

It is routinely done in tech—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates copied and improved on Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Alto computer to bring us the Macintosh and windows—but it is also done in with the best speeches, art, movies, music, and literature to discover what makes them so successful. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. Don’t give up.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Nobody likes dealing with office politics, but learning how your company operates and identifying who is holding the power over your advancement is a key component to success in your career. Listen in as Bonnie addresses the importance of building stronger workplace relationships to keep your career moving forward.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. One could say the same forMicrosoft when Bill Gates viewed himself as the visionary and Steve Ballmer was the operator. More recently Larry Page has shifted his role from co-creator at Google to CEO displacing Eric Schmidt in day-to-day operations. Bye-bye career!

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2024

In the world of leadership, success hinges on the ability to navigate through a variety of challenges, both obvious and subtle. With my years of experience as an executive leadership coach, I’ve come to recognize patterns in leadership behavior that can signal danger for even the most promising careers.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning The importance of succession planning cannot be overstated in ensuring an organization’s longevity and growth. Succession planning begins with the process of identifying and developing new leaders within a business.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, leaders frequently face various tactical and operational challenges. When it comes to managing day-to-day operations and responding to unforeseen problems, the frenetic pace of the immediate can become a zone of comfort. ” Why use this perspective shift?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We leverage our global network to access high-caliber professionals across research and development, clinical operations, regulatory affairs, and commercialization disciplines. Essential Leadership Traits for Success Identifying the right leaders requires focusing on qualities that drive success in the dynamic life sciences industry.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

More awkwardly, the truth is that I can’t attribute any of my early success to S.M.A.R.T. Ask yourself: What does success look like? A- Authenticity: Identify your values, operating principles and define your brand. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning goal setting visualizing success'

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2024

Defining the Key Elements of a Strategic Succession Strategy A robust succession plan depends on thorough strategic planning and preparation. Succession contingency planning ensures an organization’s survival and growth during strain, uncertainty, or sudden change.

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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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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? These 3 areas of health are critical to your success and I’m glad to see a recurring theme among the answers. Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders. Michael Hyatt.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. Demands are relentless and unforgiving You’re only deemed successful as a leader if you get results.

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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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Selection Methodology.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But we’re gonna start with a conversation about strategy and tactics, because leaders and managers can often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. The trail ahead, to the exclusion of the operational and management realities that you face today, that is the ground beneath your feet.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

Career Development and Organizational Growth Participating in a junior advisory board is not only a prestigious role for millennials , but also a valuable addition to their professional portfolio. It offers them a platform for significant contribution and personal growth, aligning their development with the organization’s success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

One way to get curious about alternative, time-saving approaches is to be sure you have a shared understanding of success. With success clearly defined, you can feel more empowered to share ideas for new ways of doing things. Be sure you know the MITs (most important things) you need to accomplish at a strategic and tactical level.

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General Leadership

MAY 7, 2014

Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. “…self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate…” Our capacity for self-regulation acts in the same way. Lose situational awareness. Lose opportunity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In addition, executives are investing more time in succession management activities. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. Specific experience in a challenge enhances a leader’s success. The reality is that today leaders’ abilities have hardly changed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Such an exercise gets people really thinking about what it takes to be successful in their role. What skills are most central to their success? Balances day-to-day operations with a longer term view. Knows that a true sign of success is what happens in the center when s/he’s not there. A Legacy Mindset.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Unfortunately, diving deep into operational details carries a heavy opportunity cost. Ambition is one of the defining qualities of successful leaders. Career & Learning big mistakes leadership mistakes mistakes' I have seen this failure happen with highly skilled technical professionals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

When I think of the most courageous leaders I’ve worked with over my career, it’s not the BIG decisions they made or the SINGLE TIME they made the tough call that created a legacy of courage. “I really care about our team and our success. Question that decision that just doesn’t make sense? Ask for feedback?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 are twice as successful as those that started in their thirties.” The mindset to embrace obstacles.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As the key change driver in his organization, Daniel highlighted the importance of having the support of the whole Executive Board to create an agile work environment to drive a successful transformation. First of all, there is a follow-up period to ensure a successful outcome. Step 4: Operations alignment. Boris Dragovi?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You’ll want to watch the interview, particularly if you, or someone you care about, feel called to take on a new challenge, or are particularly stuck or stagnating in your career. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. The S Curve of Employee Growth.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke Fifty Something with More Gas Left in the Career Tank But Need a Change? (And if you haven’t, it could be time you need to!)

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2019

Sometimes, particularly as adults, we slip into the trap of complacency, operating in a state of unconsciousness where it feels like we are just going through the motions. 2 Setting your people up for success. The success of any business is hardwired to the productivity of its people. And that place is no fun for anyone. #2

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

Every successful leader has a story of how they got to where they are, a story with twists, turns, roadblocks, failures, often leading to some sort of happy ending. However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 29, 2022

Professional sport provides perhaps the most visceral example of career transitions in modern society, as the athletic potential of performers is usually limited to perhaps a decade, after which their physical strength wanes and they’re no longer able to maintain their competitiveness. Past our peak.

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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. In Strategy First , Brad Chase, the mind behind some of Microsoft’s largest and most successful initiatives, explains why building robust strategies is the imperative to business success. Dig deeper.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

Part three will explore the idea of openness and justification for a rationale of compromise; and how these impact the successful conclusion of senior executive hiring. How you act now with management selection will determine your future success. Part two will examine parallel soft skill essentials. Confidence in What Is Essential.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2025

Missing the Horizon New leaders obsess over daily operational details while broader strategic imperatives drift away. Success in leadership demands one fundamental truth: excellence emerges when you stop proving and start growing. They actively avoid complex organizational challenges by burying themselves in tactical work.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” Establish the “Immutables” – You’re now ready to lay down a few operational “immutables” – your leadership lines in the sand.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Where to Expand the Search for Tangential Talent: Beyond relaxing specific credential requirements, success may hinge on the ability to think laterally and search for candidates with tangential experience. These are healthy ingredients for success in a portfolio company. You will subconsciously know when a candidate is CEO material.

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