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Board of Directors: Steering Towards Organizational Excellence

N2Growth Blog

Companies that invest in board development programs equip their directors with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel, creating an environment where clear expectations, ethical guidelines, and open communication channels unite board members under a shared purpose.

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Inclusive Leadership in 2025: A Strategic Imperative for Growth

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Succession Planning: Building the Leaders of Tomorrow Succession planning plays a pivotal role in developing inclusive executive leadership teams.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. This approach self-evidently enables a mindset that offers a long-term perspective.

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s natural to gravitate toward, and develop bonds with, people who look like, talk like, and think like we do. In addition to the well-known dangers of groupthink, when leaders exclude Others , they also exclude the varied perspectives and ideas that could help the leaders make better and more imaginative decisions.

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Is the Time Right For You to Speak Out?

Lead Change Blog

The search results are less abundant if you google “songs about ethics.” The pattern of emphasizing economics over ethics plays out in many workplace practices and cultures. Rather, you want to make your company successful AND you want ethics, justice, relationships, and results. EVER” pop up. No 12- or 40-best lists appear.

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10 Ways to Keep “Post-truth” From Crippling Your Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Ethics are judged on a sliding scale…If we add up truths and lies we’ve told and find more of the former than the latter, we classify ourselves honest…Conceding that his magazine soft-pedaled criticism of advertisers, one publisher concluded, ‘I guess you could say we’re 75 percent honest, which isn’t bad.’”. 2) Manage paradoxes. easy to do.

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Decision Making Antonyms and Story Telling

Mike Cardus

Once you chose an action, we will debate the merits of the work and fail to recognize alternative options that may be better or worse; framing the process of synthesis as one of curiosity – wander through ideas; also, using groupthink for progress, mixed with breaking these teams up and challenging the ideas in new mixed teams.