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The Role of Interim Executives in Driving Corporate Transformation and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

These seasoned professionals step into senior roles within an organization on a temporary basis, engaging in strategic decision-making, crisis management, turnaround schemes, or filling gaps due to sudden departures or absences of incumbent executives. Leading the charge in revolutionizing this temporary leadership landscape is N2Growth.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Fine Art of Failure: Benefiting from Mistakes to Assure Success

Strategy Driven

By studying swings of the pendulum (likelihoods of failures), one better understands their progress. Failures Make the Best Case StudiesCase studies of success and failure form the basis for planning, improvement, training and other business practices. The Big Picture of Business – Becoming a Legend.

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Lessons for Leaders from Decisions that Changed History

Skip Prichard

Where is leadership when we need it? In sixteen historical studies, Jan-Benedict Steenkamp reveals lessons for today’s leaders from decisions that changed history. “Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence others to achieve a common goal.” –Jan-Benedict First, leadership is relational.

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Lead With Your Heart, Not Just Your Head

Harvard Business Review

While it is true that companies with abundant resources can afford to use fear as a motivator and absorb the cost of more frequent hirings and firings, this approach frequently ends up being memorialized in case studies of failed leaders and shuttered businesses. Let's look at some of the reasons impersonal leadership fails.

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What New Team Leaders Should Do First

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’re taking over an existing team or starting a new one, it’s critical to devote time and energy to establishing how you want your team to work, not just what you want them to achieve. Case study #1: When in doubt, over-communicate. Czarina Walker, the founder and CEO of InfiniEDGE Software, had a crisis on her hands.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

.” He suggests asking a colleague from another department or division to sit in on one of your team meetings and “give you feedback on where you’re focusing your energy and attention.” ” Besides, Dillon adds, you shouldn’t “waste your energy” on disliking a colleague.

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We May Never Know Leaders' Responsibility in Gulf Disaster

Harvard Business Review

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology.

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