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. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. As an essential prerequisite, compliance demonstrates a commitment to adherence and propriety.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2023

It’s about transforming your vision into reality, introducing your unique offering to the market, and turning an idea into a lucrative operation. Your choice of funding should align with your business’s size, scope, industry, and long-term goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 5, 2019

In any organization, leaders have a choice, they can concentrate on urgent short-term goals, or they can equip themselves with the relationship sensing and building skills they need to balance priority tensions. Building balanced relationships through trust is at the heart of the IFB Model of leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Posted in Value Creation Workplace Issues [link] Most organizations and their leaders now accept that simple worker compliance is insufficient for achieving operational excellence and long-term success. Management writers, consultants, and academics have been telling us this for years.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Is your board of directors operating at its maximum effectiveness? For boards to maximize their impact, make the greatest contributions, and perform to the best of their abilities, they must operate at their highest potential. Next, effective boards should have excellent leadership. Second, effective boards are also diverse.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

The art of leadership is the appropriate calibration of support and challenge at a specific moment, in a specific context for a specific reason.”. You want to operate in the top right quadrant—liberate—as much as you can. Each quadrant represents a different leadership style and the culture it creates. Support builds trust.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

The company has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions to place itself among the world leaders in the production of many commodities, including aluminium, iron ore, copper, uranium, coal, and diamonds. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 5, 2024

Authoritarian leadership seems to be resurging. The Oxford Review Encyclopedia of Terms gives this definition; “Authoritarian leadership refers to any situation where a leader keeps hold of as much power and authority as possible. Team effectiveness is determined by team leadership. Servant-leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

Political, legislative, regulatory, or compliance actions that could create a competitive imbalance in the market. The key to successfully exploiting competition over the long haul is linking your competitive strategy to the discipline of innovation and the mindset of being externally focused with regard to the market. Thoughts?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This time each year, I select from all the leadership books I read during the year my pick for the best new leadership book of the year. Baird/Sullivan : In cultures dominated by fear, silence and compliance become the norms rather than clear communication and open debate. A word that comes up a lot in the book is “empathy.”

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Micromanagement is one of those terms that almost immediately elicits imagery—and the overwhelming majority of that imagery could be categorized as unpleasant or distasteful or “something you wouldn’t want to have to work your way through again!”. But it does happen! Remember how you felt the first week COVID protocols went into effect?

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

By the end, you’ll have a robust understanding of how HR can be the catalyst for transformative change, empowering your workforce and positioning your business for long-term success. HR’s role in change management extends to helping leads plan for change even when the changes are not within their realm of operation.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival. Ask yourself this question…Who is more loyal; an employee who has been with the company a long time but is an under-performer, or a less tenured employee who always goes the extra mile and consistently exceeds expectations?

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Organizations can use such phrases to curb dissent, cultivate an “us versus them” approach, and deflect responsibility.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 14, 2023

Well, those days are long gone. Is it increasing revenue, improving customer satisfaction, or enhancing operational efficiency? Are there any skills gaps, compliance issues, or inefficiencies that need to be addressed? Remember the good old days when employees were left to figure things out on their own? Congratulations!

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

In terms of the impact of our work, it’s been incredibly gratifying to meet and hear from leaders and working people who have changed the way they hire, onboard, lead, assess, mentor, support and communicate with their teammates after working with us directly or reading my books and article. It’s a simple question.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Just because you have hired the best possible people for every leadership role in your company doesn’t mean they are all going to get along all the time. Foster an atmosphere of trust between the key personnel of the leadership team so they are more willing to work together to achieve whatever is best for the company.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

At this moment, most organizations are focused on helping their customers and employees with immediate safety and security needs, recognizing the immediate short-term financial impact on their end goals. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. An inefficient operation results in unproductive activities which often miss the point and worse yet, result in wasted time and wasted resources.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Erni: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. I can honestly say that, after working at several companies, we’re unique in the way our employees and senior leadership embrace challenges as genuinely as we do at Audible.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Anne Ernie: I actually tend to stay away from using the term “diversity,” as it’s often associated with just meeting compliance requirements. I can honestly say that, after working at several companies, we’re unique in the way our employees and senior leadership embrace challenges as genuinely as we do at Audible.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Our research shows that the same inclusive leadership behaviors that leverage diversity to drive innovation and market growth can enable managers to support individuals with disabilities. But teaching managers to display inclusive leadership behaviors is just the first step. And they are more likely to have their ideas endorsed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Happily fading from memory is the cliché that ethics and compliance teams effectively constitute a “business prevention department.” How do you demonstrate that a company’s best-in-class compliance program — not a tightened labor market — enhanced employee engagement? Most corporate leaders know this.

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2024

Workforce Management : Managing employee schedules, attendance, and compliance to maximize productivity. Succession Planning : Preparing for future leadership needs to ensure long-term stability. Vision, Strategy, and Leadership Vision and Values : Establish clear business visions and values to steer HCM efforts.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 14, 2022

Onboarding provides new hires with the support, encouragement and foundation they need to become successful, long-term employees. Your new employee first day checklist sets the stage for your new hire’s great first day long before you greet him at the door. Welcoming New Employees During the First Week. Provide a team lunch.

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HR Digest

MAY 6, 2024

Consolidated HR Operations What is an HRIS? An HRIS consolidates HR data and processes in one place, enabling cost savings and streamlined operations compared to using disparate tools. The benefits of HRIS not only improve organization and accessibility but also enhance data security and compliance with record-keeping regulations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The internet has dramatically changed the way companies operate. But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Think both short term and long term.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In the course of leading six successful turnarounds and transformations at Schering-Plough, Pharmacia, Pharmacia and Upjohn, Wyeth, and two operating units within Novartis, I''ve learned that culture can be powerfully leveraged to enhance long-term success. Yet many executives don''t make culture a priority. Build trust.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2017

Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. We hired roughly 1,000 new employees in approximately 15 months to build our operations, human resources, compliance, and technology teams. Change management can be a test for any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. Over the last decade, HR at IBM took a number of steps to help drive operational improvement: Delivered the new skills IBM needed at the front lines. Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The term corporate entrepreneur devalues what real entrepreneurs do, and it creates a haze of hokum around people trying to innovate in large companies that sets them up to fail. Plus, there is not yet a legal or compliance department to seek approval from.). But almost everyone involved in a young company is betting on the long-term.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. It is now clear that companies operating in China are kept on a short leash even when they comply with governmental demands.

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