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CEO Succession Planning: Challenges and Opportunities in 2025

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Criticality of Leadership Transition in 2025 CEO succession represents one of the most consequential inflection points in an organizations lifecycle. The Governance Imperative in CEO Succession Corporate boards bear a profound responsibility in crafting effective succession strategies.

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Gray Versus Green: Who Makes the Better Start-Up CEO?

N2Growth Blog

This, of course, starts with the CEO, and young companies have a broad set of founders and CEOs with different backgrounds, competencies, and demographics at the helm. A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO.

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The Seven Tests of A CEO

Leading Blog

In The CEO Test by the always insightful Adam Bryant and by the former Amgen president and CEO Kevin Sharer, they present seven tests that really all leaders face in one form or another. They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership.

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How a CEO Can Make or Break Your Company

N2Growth Blog

The CEO defines an organization’s direction and culture, shaping a vision that motivates employees, engages customers, and builds confidence with investors. The CEO also balances immediate needs with long-term goals, transforming strategic ideas into actions everyone can support.

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Signal-Based Selling: How to Leverage 4 Key Buying Signals

ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck recently broke down specific ways to put four key buying signals into action with the experts from 30 Minutes to President’s Club. As prospects define their problem, search for solutions, and even change jobs, they are generating high-value signals that the best go-to-market teams can leverage to close more deals.

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Nonprofit CEO Search: Strategies for Finding Mission-Driven Leaders

N2Growth Blog

The executive search process goes beyond filling a role; it ensures the new CEO is aligned with the organization’s purpose and vision. A CEO with strategic foresight can guide the organization toward future growth and sustainability. A critical part of this process is crafting an innovative, forward-thinking search strategy.

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Doing Well By Doing Good With Darrin Williams, CEO Southern Bancorp

N2Growth Blog

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. Indeed Brian Moynihan, Bank of America’s CEO, and Darrin appeared side by side on “ Mad Money ” on CNBC touting their new partnership. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar.

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12 Tips for Selling to the C-Suite

We called on ZoomInfo’s top sales people — including our founder and CEO — to bring you the definitive guide for selling to the C-suite. How should frontline sales professionals approach selling to the C-suite in today’s ultra-competitive market?