N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Today’s CMOs are not just marketers but visionaries who strategically leverage creativity with technology to drive commercial success.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Understanding the Evolving Role of a Chief Operating Officer In the ever-evolving world of business, the role of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is undergoing numerous transformations. Their role expands beyond mere efficient operations, reaching into complex problem-solving, organizational design, and corporate transformation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” When constraints are lifted, the sky’s the limit for creativity.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Constraints are the gateway to creativity. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

By collaborating closely with senior management on strategic initiatives, such a board offers a unique viewpoint that can significantly influence the company’s direction. Avoiding bureaucratic entanglements allows these young advisors to freely express their creativity and innovative ideas.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Evaluate the creativity, reasonability and effectiveness of the compensation programs in existence. 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. Tough, creative, smart, insightful, compassionate, and very accomplished.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Or if people think they’ll get in trouble for their creativity, they won’t risk it. ” is a powerful creative force.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. Put whatever parameters and checkpoints you need to feel comfortable in your world, but allow space for creativity and brilliant thinking. It’s not easy. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity. ” – Julian Baggini.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine Ten Critical Keys For Designing a Creative Culture by @PhilCooke Fifty Something with More Gas Left in the Career Tank But Need a Change?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

You’re The Boss or Client: Here’s How You Should Respond to Creative Work by @philCooke See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

We know the PC market is in a free fall and we know the financials of the company ad nauseum, but what about the brainpower, ingenuity and creativity that is needed to steer this behemoth in the right direction? Some guidance and information along these lines is becoming unavoidable.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Even our headquarters in the Netherlands, which have domestic offices, face challenges in maintaining consistency in their operations. However, it is also important to allow creativity and innovation. You can create plans and agreements to manage these differences only when you comprehend the barriers. How is it communicated?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

The Intersection of Creativity and Regulatory Compliance In the 21st century, businesses are primarily driven by data-centric operations. These specialized operations require a unique combination of creative innovation and strict regulatory compliance. This balance is crucial, and managing it effectively is complex.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 19, 2023

The study found that the social aspect of working in a cafe was vitally important to workers, who revealed that it made them feel a part of something bigger, while the background noise also bolstered their creativity levels. At least, that’s if they want to encourage creativity within the workforce.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

A job title says a lot about a person, his creativity, and his attitude towards the job. 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. Most Creative Job Titles Ever (They’re also meaningless).

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models. To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 4, 2021

The researchers argue that operating in stable environments can easily lull us into a creative rut, whereas the introduction of new people into our world can prompt us to look at the world with fresh eyes. “If If you have an open network, but it’s always the same people, it doesn’t work creatively. Creative team.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

The robots are the most visual example of Bezos’s obsession with automating whatever he can to free his employees to work on more creative tasks.”. And when people bought in, they brought him ideas—tough ideas that required rethinking how the company operated—and those ideas ultimately saved Facebook from disaster.”. Always Day One.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Many of the painters we now celebrate as creative geniuses devoted a significant portion of their careers to copywork. It is an exercise that enables novices to relive the creative journey and invite them to compare their instinctive inclinations against the choices of a master. Organizations routinely reject very creative ideas.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. Affecting creativity. The results showed that in-person teams were up to 20% more creative than their virtual peers. first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative Construction is the process of sustaining and rejuvenating an existing organization’s innovative capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Whether expanding into new markets, managing crises, or driving innovation , they bring insight and clarity, combining data with intuition. By championing a culture of creativity and inclusivity, the CEO creates a dynamic environment where people are eager to contribute.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

They can (and SHOULD) be culture-building experiences that inspire action, creativity, and growth. As a leader, youll gain valuable insights into team sentiment and operational roadblocks that might otherwise go unnoticed. But team meetings dont have to be this way. That is a simple and efficient way to end ANY meeting.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others? Steding presents his proven leadership process for achieving peak performance by accessing the untapped/unseen intelligence of deep imagination as well as the superior creativity and intelligence of the connected team. Are our jobs under threat?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics. More clients’ opportunities require executives with social and emotional skills and higher-level cognitive capabilities, such as logical reasoning and creativity.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

It’s a devastating form of fatigue that threatens to undermine our dreams, kill our creativity, and diminish our impact–a destructive lethargy that insidiously worms its way into every facet of our lives. If we are completely honest with ourselves, it’s likely each of us can think of times when the burden of weariness tugs at us.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Unleash Creativity by Inserting Poetry into the PowerPoint. Creativity is how we manage our own change.”. Upgrade Your Mental Operating System. When there is balance between the spreadsheet and the story, people are more likely to form their own opinions and be creative. Humans are more nuanced than that.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How they work provides for the highest creative expression of self. Modern ways of working require us to consistently tap into our cognitive powers, creative energy, and collective genius. Many workers now function like Apps on a smartphone, sitting pretty on top of a company’s operating system (OS). Enter the shaper.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

Fortunately, Akamai’s VP of Human Resources, Steve Heinrich, recognized what was happening and brought in Chuck McVinney, a management consultant with expertise in teamwork and leadership training. Of course, as a team leader, you will need to be equipped with strategies to manage such a variety of styles and temperaments.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Finding clever solutions to big, tough, problems requires harnessing your managerial creativity to really understand the problem you and your team are solving. Creativity – contrary to popular myth – does not emerge spontaneously from nothing. One way to think about creativity is as the novel synthesis of data.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 1, 2025

What I suggest to my readers and clients who create their own Life GPS is that they identify a short and memorable list of words that describe them when theyre operating in their unique version of personal peak performance. What conditions do I need to stop doing to allow my creativity to flow? What does fun look like for me today?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

Admiral McRaven was honored to receive this honor in 2011 when he took charge of the United States Special Operations Command. When McRaven retired in 2014, he had 37 years as a Navy SEAL under his belt, leading men and women at every level of the special operations community.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Stakeholders and shareholders alike expect businesses to make a positive impact on the big challenges our planet faces, such as climate change, redistribution of wealth, and more equitable ways of operating and performing. Taking Action Upon recognizing these signs, CEOs must spur into action.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Or, if you are responsible for managing Solopreneur projects, how can you be sure that the work will increase impact and productivity? Develop creative and relational synergy between the Four Action Behaviors and you’ll be amazed to see the increase of potential in all the people you influence.

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