Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of business, leadership and management are often depicted as two distinct circles. For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. A remarkable leader doesn’t always make an exceptional manager, and vice versa.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Experience Officer The Chief Experience Officer (CXO) might not have the same name recognition as a CEO or CFO, but their influence is felt across every aspect of a company’s strategy and operations.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Working closely with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) , the COO acts as a trusted ally and often steps in when the CEO is away. Moreover, COOs are the gatekeepers of risk management, ensuring that all operations adhere to legal and regulatory standards. Problem-Solving Skills : Navigating challenges with innovative solutions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The C-Suite Executives Role in Business Strategy The C-Suite executive team comprises the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Chief Operating Officer (COO), and other high-ranking ‘chief’ executives. The digital landscape has redefined the boundaries of commercial leadership.

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Lead from Within

JULY 25, 2024

For instance, I worked with a CEO who regularly conducted scenario planning exercises with his team, helping them navigate a major industry shift with minimal disruption. Consequently, they are able to spot growth opportunities others might miss, effectively positioning their organization for long-term success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Connect your ideas to the bigger picture – goals, values, long-term vision– and also consider the technical nuances and challenges for implementation. It can be overwhelming for your team and manager when you share too many innovative ideas at work all at once. Put people before projects and build trust.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Unveiling the Board’s Strategic Compass Towards Sustainable Growth Astute board governance is the linchpin for fostering an organization’s success and long-term viability. A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Whether navigating complex team dynamics, managing high-pressure situations, or making tough decisions, coaching helps leaders develop practical strategies to overcome these obstacles. It empowers leaders to tap into their strengths and abilities, enabling them to find innovative and customized approaches to tackle their unique challenges.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

In the legal industry, leadership isn’t just about managing the status quo—it’s about driving change, shaping strategy, and guiding firms through an increasingly complex landscape. That’s the level of foresight firms need if they’re to remain competitive in a landscape that rewards agility and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Through coaching, executives can refine their ability to analyze complex situations, anticipate future challenges, and craft innovative solutions. By thinking strategically, executives are better equipped to navigate uncertainty, drive organizational change, and position their companies for long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance. Many leaders have risen through the ranks using tried and tested methods, but these approaches may no longer be practical in an environment that thrives on innovation and flexibility.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Research from Indiana University reveals, however, that rather than being purely driven by consumer needs, the propensity to recall products can instead be driven by the length of tenure of the company’s CEO. “This phenomena is even more likely when the previous CEO left under poor circumstances, becoming more blame-able.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

Similarly, another emerging C-suite trend is the rapid shift towards a more empathetic management style for leaders. Organizations look to their leaders to inspire a seamless transition to this digital-first culture, safeguarding data, increasing productivity, and fostering innovation in the same stride.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Such is the popularity of CEO letters, famed biographer Walter Isaacson wrote his latest book largely around the letters to stakeholders from former Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. They started their “Dear CEO” letters in 2012 and have prompted other investment firms to follow suit. ” Influencing others.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

Furthermore, you are likely just as familiar with my position that a static business, which doesn’t constantly innovate around the changing needs of the marketplace is the same thing as a dying business. From my perspective, I can’t imagine not integrating services throughout the talent management lifecycle.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

These interviews covered aspects of the innovation and change these futurists predict, to the timeline and ever-accelerating pace of this change, to suggestions about how the industry could cope with the change to come. In fact, the opposite may happen: the CEO could be the roadblock to the whole transformative process.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

In it, he suggests that business leaders should stop focusing on short-term (finite) gains and instead focus on the long-term (infinite) game of the business. The challenge for leaders in the West today has become the fixation on short-term results. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

To stay competitive, brands must innovate and transform. In contrast, other leaders focus so much on long-term strategies that they miss the opportunity to create competitive advantage by pulling the future forward. Digital technology continues to transform both the retail and consumer experience.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Play Nice But Win : A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader by Michael Dell with James Kaplan. For the first time, Dell reveals the highs and lows of the company's evolution amidst a rapidly changing industry—and his own, as he matured into the CEO it needed. It also undermines long-term business performance.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It leads to short-term thinking. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

The day after Jeffrey Immelt became CEO of General Electric, he had an even bigger challenge to deal with—the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In his twenty years as CEO, GE’s value had risen 4,000 percent. GE had internal problems, it was overly reliant on GE Capital, and it was not digitally literate and innovative.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And, so, before too long, the taxi you’re about to hail in Phoenix, shows up; Poof! Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. Doesn’t much of a CEO’s job consist of being on the receiving end of ever-increasing floods of data that can now be gleaned in real time from inputs around the globe?

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2024

Great leaders understand that developing leaders within their organization is essential for long-term success. Applies to All Levels of Leadership : Leaders recognize innovation can emerge from any level. They understand how to translate the CEO’s goals into a comprehensive learning and development program.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” As founding dean and professor at the Yale school of management, he taught a course on entrepreneurial leadership. But I think those topics are distinctly secondary.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

One Stanford study revealed that while two-thirds of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of them want it and welcome executive coaching. The late Steve Jobs, co-founder and CEO of Apple, reportedly used coaching to improve his leadership style, identify and correct his gaps, and continuously improve himself.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Strategic thinking is another key dimension to evaluate, as it reveals an executive’s ability to develop and execute long-term plans that align with the organization’s goals. By regularly evaluating and enhancing their performance, leaders can drive organizational success and position their companies for long-term growth.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Sustaining high growth over the long haul isn’t easy. Leaders who suffer the tough days of turnarounds and manage to resurrect a business are the ones who think about momentum in strategic terms. The management team believed they were doing the right things to create change. Main menu Home.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Friday, January 28, 2011 5 Leadership Styles that Work A guest post by Art Gould Recipes for Success: 5 Different Leadership Styles That All Work! He has imbued the entire corporation with a service culture that is reaping record-shattering rewards in terms of corporate success. I am CEO between positions.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2024

In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It innovates. Knowing how others see you is vital.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Venkataraman offers countless examples of how individuals and organizations have defied instant gratification and instead taken the long view. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’ It helps too to look past typical metrics to see what is actually happening long-term.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To achieve this, an effective CTO needs “to strike the right balance between a carrot and a stick; short-term impact on numbers vs. long term value, or feel-good effects vs. profound change.”. Thus organizations need to become more agile and adaptable to fast pace changes over a long period.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Though every field uses similar terms, there is a slight variation in terms of corporate structures. In the present world of fierce competition for jobs and employment opportunities, creative job titles go a long way to attract the attention of employers and companies. Master of Disaster (Disaster Management Lead).

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

After taking a couple days to mull it over I’ve decided to select a few presentations that will be most relevant to the themes I typically write and speak about i.e. leadership, connection, employee engagement, productivity and innovation. Zappos’ CEO Tony Hsieh is always thoughtful. why is everyone smiling?

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