N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. How do executive search firms work?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A small elite class of boutique search firms is achieving this, providing you all of the executive search solutions of larger firms, but with a more hands-on, better-resourced approach. Her areas of expertise include talent operations and strategy, and C-suite executive recruitment, mainly but not exclusively in technology organizations.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 15, 2012

Operating Margin. Net Promoter Score (For more on this, read here and here ). Process Error Rate (or Fault Rate – there should be a way to measure each time a customer reports a problem). Employee Turnover Rate.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Finally, as you read the book, you’ll learn about the five steps to build a world-class culture : Define Your Culture Discover Through Collaboration & Inspiration Launch, Cascade, & Embed Drive Long-Term Impact Leaders Blaze the Trail “Building an extraordinary, sustainable culture takes time, effort, and energy,” says Mayberry.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2018

To quote a recap from Sonia Nieto, In this study, several classes of children in grades one through six were given a nonverbal intelligence test (the researchers called it the “Harvard Test of Influenced Acquisition”), which researchers claimed would measure the students’ potential for intellectual growth. Garbage in, garbage out.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

The best place to observe whether a surgeon is good at her job, a teacher is good at his, or a quarterback good at his, is to watch them during an operation, a class session, or a game, respectively. Think about it this way. What’s the best place to observe a leader? That’s right—a meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

What is your personal operating system? Next to knowing one’s core values, the most important attribute an entrepreneurial leader can possess is a predictable, reliable, and intentional personal operating system. If that operating system isn’t yet as reliable as the leader wants, refining it to that point should be a priority.”.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 22, 2012

As an example, at our regional high school, one of our teachers decided to do an experiment where she allowed her students to text during her class with the sole condition being that if she caught them in the act, she would take away their smartphones for the day.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Yesterday as I watched an old episode of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ the story line was about how the kindergarten teacher enacted lessons in kindness using lessons from her Kindergarten class resonated with me. In business we operate under the old adage of the loudest person is the one that gets heard. Say Please and Thank You.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2014

They say that the biggest barriers to innovation are manager’s attitude, operational structure and procedures, and lack of diversity. They feel as though many large corporate businesses only promote the wealthy and give nothing back to the middle or lower classes. They Are Influenced By Innovation.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

In particular, when it comes to improving the customer service experience and streamlining operations, today’s call center agents now have a wide array of tech solutions to resolve these matters. Here are three proven ways today’s call centers can better streamline operations and achieve greater success. Employee Benefits.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Liz Pieters serves as Chief People Officer at N2Growth and is responsible for N2Growth’s people strategy and operations worldwide. Forbes partnered with the founders of Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) to launch Forbes Councils, invitation-only communities for world-class business professionals in a variety of industries.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 18, 2021

One of the attributes of best-in-class organizations is that message development is strategic, consistent, and responsive to audience needs. In other words, there’s a Strategic Messaging Methodology in place as one of the standard operating practices of the internal communications function.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Class—When did I elevate instead of escalate today? We don’t have to operate on autopilot. Class is elevating a situation when your instincts push you to escalate, when it would be easier to escalate and when you have every right to escalate. We can choose our response.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2019

She was the chief operating officer of a large company, and this was the leadership conference for her company. One of my fun questions used in leadership classes is posed by this scenario: Pretend you go away on vacation for a couple of weeks. She had been going through chemotherapy for breast cancer and was utterly bald.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

It is an overarching program aimed at renewing the basic business fundamentals that every organization should have perfected to compete at a world class level. The work here identifies ways to optimize performance and determines the people and technologies needed to streamline operations.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Executive recruiting services tend to operate reactively. Expectations of a Leading Executive Search Firm Leading executive search firms today operate at a very high level of proficiency and have distinct expectations from executive recruiting services. What Are Executive Recruiting Services? Here is what you can expect.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 14, 2022

One day when I was still working in a corporate role during the pandemic, I had a rather unique leadership class experience. One even went so far as to say she’d attended this particular class several times already, but this one was the best one yet. Thankfully no one threw any tomatoes. It was actually the opposite.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The rise of dual-class share structures has empowered original leaders with greater control over their companies, particularly regarding leadership changes. For example, an entrepreneur who excels in the startup phase may find that scaling operations globally requires a different skill set.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Later, I was teaching a capstone MBA class and the topic was evaluating company vision statements. If done right, a Statement of Cause sets the foundation for culture that aligns strategy and influences operational execution. He laughed and said, “No one in the company, including me, really knows our vision statement.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are interested in operations management and the administrative side of business, a MBA could be for you. Classes are held in the evenings and on weekends. This degree also teaches you about international business operations. This is a great degree for those interested in HR and the workings of a business.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2024

It was a long and arduous journey that led our R&D teams to build and support a truly world-class product that ranked amongst top 3 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant consistently over the years. Being facilitative is about stepping aside, even if a few hours each week, from operational stuff and focus on conversations leading to learning.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2012

Cellular communications, the laser, digitized and synthesized music, the solar battery cell, the first orbiting communications satellite, and the UNIX operating system, are all products of Bell Labs. A great way to spend an hour in science class.) AT&T officially created Bell Telephone Laboratories on January 1, 1925.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

The resurrection of this vision conveyed to everyone inside the company and out that Ford was back in the business of “serving all around the world a complete family of cars that are best-in-class,” Mulally explained. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 16, 2024

Consider that 86% of chief communications officers (CCOs) do not control their operational budgets, and roughly half struggle to maintain the workload and staffing required. Navigating a change in structure is a challenging task. Just because it's a daunting task doesn't mean it's not worth it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2012

Leadership is the "glue" that connects the WMACs' business strategy, operations and program changes, and ultimately, their commitment to human capital. In fact, executives at the WMACs say they devote as much as 30% of their time to “developing the next class of leaders.” In fact, I mean quite the opposite.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Helen: The woman who owned and operated the historical lodge where I worked as a maid in my teenage summers and told vivid stories about the people who stayed there in summers gone by. Working as a riveter, a punch press, and extruder operator could be some of the most mind-numbing work I would ever do.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Guest Post By Mary Kinney, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Ginnie Mae, a cornerstone of the U.S. Shortly thereafter, I found myself part of what I like to call Fannie Mae’s “graduating class of 2009.” housing finance system since it was created more than 40 years ago (More about Mary at the end of this post).

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The problem is that the demands of a do-more-with-less operating environment and the hyper-connectivity of a smartphone-enabled life can easily leave you feeling overworked and overwhelmed. The good news is you don’t have to meditate for hours on end or take a 90 minute yoga class every day to activate your rest and digest response.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

This new class of CPG employees needs to be skilled in communication, relationship building, and product knowledge and be technologically knowledgeable, data literate, and culturally sensitive. Do you expect this trend (whichever way you see it) to continue? Why or why not?

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General Leadership

MARCH 11, 2015

The 15-position facility is manned by two 40-person teams, responsible for the safe and expeditious movement of 180,000 annual aircraft operations across 4,600 square miles and six airports. … Read the rest.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were your class presidents, team captains, club leaders, and the people who held virtually all the available leadership positions you can imagine early in life. They were those unflappable individuals that seemed to just have that “it&# factor.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2023

The immediate danger is that most employees will now operate more like independent contractors or gig workers than employees who are loyal and committed to your organization. How organizations adapt to this culture shock will determine whether they thrive or even survive and whether U.S. and global productivity will go up or down.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Information Transfer New executives can’t operate in a silo and need access to information to fill the shoes of the previous leader, break the mold, and start leading in earnest. Interested in partnering with N2Growth to run a best-in-class executive search experience to maximize success during your next executive placement?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In fact, if you examine failed leaders as a class you’ll find that a lack of love, misplaced love, or misguided love were a contributing cause of said failures, if not the root cause. The act of operating in the truest best interest of others is the issue. Thanks for the astute observations Mark. Mike Henry Sr.

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