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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. Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage.

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Evaluating Leadership Potential: Beyond Performance Metrics

N2Growth Blog

Olivier Prestel warns, The biggest mistake is promoting a top salesperson to manager simply because theyre good at sales. This approach ensures individuals develop leadership skills gradually and with proper support. When a leader fails to inspire or manage effectively, team members may disengage or leave the organization.

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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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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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5 Leadership Development Practices to Kick to the Curb

Leading Blog

But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development. Even though the world looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, organizations still cling to strategies and methodologies developed in the 20th century. In short, without vertical development, training dollars are wasted.

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Reader’s Choice: Your Favorite Human-Centered Leadership Content of 2024

Let's Grow Leaders

No More Vague Reports: How to Give Useful Information (September 2024) As is with many of our articles, we wrote this one in response to a frustrated CEO, asking to help us fix this problem with his team. This article unpacks how to manage confidential information with integrity and professionalism. Listen here.

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Why Buy-In Is the Most Overlooked Factor in Business Growth

Leading Blog

The Real Reason Strategies Fail The biggest mistake CEOs make is assuming that once they decide on a direction, their team will automatically follow. If the CEO and leadership team arent visibly invested in a new strategy, dont expect the rest of the company to be. If your employees arent aligned, your customers will feel it.