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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology.

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Managing the Strong, Arrogant, Obnoxious Type

Let's Grow Leaders

Sometimes it’s talk dark and handsome, with an extra dose of charisma, and two expresso shots of attitude. Or the balding dude from finance who can out-gun anyone with a spreadsheet at twenty paces, who won’t even hear your argument for more funding unless you can outwit his wittiness. They come in all shapes and forms.

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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Today, intelligence, charisma, and instinct are no longer the sole hallmarks of effective leaders. Traditionally, their roles would include routine reporting, day-to-day customer/supplier management, and keeping pace with email correspondence (to name a few: input-intensive or data-intensive tasks).

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Build Your Leadership Capacity on a Strong Personal Foundation

Lead Change Blog

In my new book, Mission-Critical Leadership: How Smart Managers Lead Well in All Directions , I offer four questions to help you build your leadership foundation: Vision: Where are you going? The same is true for your leadership career. Your capacity for growth and advancement is only sustainable if you build on a sound foundation.

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Unemotional Leadership—an Oxymoron

Lead on Purpose

The common thread connecting these names is passion, others might call it charisma. The Components of Charisma. Defining charisma is difficult. Defining charisma is difficult. Those with charisma understand who they are. Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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10 Common Thinking Errors Leaders Make

Mark Sanborn

A manager only listens to team members who agree with them, neglecting diverse opinions that could offer a new perspective. A manager ignores potential issues with a new initiative because they don’t want to be the only one questioning it. A manager focuses only on what went wrong in a successfully completed project.

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