N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A well-rounded leader in this capacity must do more than keep the lights on digitally; they define the very contours of how the organization engages its customers, develops internal talent, and monetizes digital assets. The modern digital chief now wields a broader strategic lens, serving as a linchpin across the C-suite.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. M aking any progress, process transformation or change across American communities and throughout the global business communities as usual is always hard and usually requires a significant investment of resources – people, finance and effort. By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

“The modern CFO is not just a finance expert—they’re a strategic partner, playing a critical role in driving innovation, digital transformation, and growth. The best CFOs today are those who can bridge the gap between finance and technology, turning data into actionable insights that steer the company forward.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. But more often than not, we do a poor job of preparing them for the role and its responsibilities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. They are high achievers within the organization – willing to do what is necessary to get the job done. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges. What skills and behaviors do they have?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? Instead of beating yourself up or giving in, it is critical that you develop the ability to learn from setbacks. So, do you have the skills and perspective to thrive under pressure and to succeed, or will you implode when faced with a challenge?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted. You can work with someone where the basics are in place, but lacking certain fundamentals, there really isn’t much you can do.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

Leaders who rest on their laurels without making the effort to develop their skills will eventually be overtaken by those who view leadership as a professional skill to be developed and refined. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

These relationships are critical if an organization needs to adapt to changes in the external environment, as many organizations and their supply chain leaders have had to do amidst recent global events. An effective CPO values diversity and inclusion, creating a culture of inclusivity that attracts and retains top talent.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

I recently sat down with Sarah at a local coffee shop up the street from her boutique, to drink some locally roasted espresso and talk about SaySay Boutique, which she started 10 years ago, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. You can do it without outside financing. It’s part of who we are.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And do that with over 99.999999 percent reliability. And just to make things interesting, do it in a decentralized organizational construct where laws, standards, and procedures aren’t as tightly controllable as within a single company. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Recall how the U.S.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

Many employees believe that if they continue doing what’s expected of them, they’ll always have a job. As AI, robotics, and machine learning take on increasingly central roles within organizations, employees will need to focus more on skills in the interpersonal and decision-making realms. Without an interpreter, data is merely noise.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I need to learn to manage my time better. Yet ironically, none of us can learn to manage time. What you can do, however, is manage your energy. Energy is the amount of effort we expend into doing something. This means that you don’t have to wake up each morning wondering what to do, that’s already done.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model. What good can I do as a person, an organization, and a society?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

Can they grasp real meaning in their work beyond the growing daily to do list. Leaders need to help everyone see the impact of what they do -Anil Saxena, LGL Tribe Member. It just seems that we’ve got this really long list of things to do and the work just keeps coming. Terry Burton , LGL Tribe Member. .

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. The best leaders are proactive, strategic listeners. They recognize that knowledge and wisdom are not gained by talking, but by listening. They have the uncanny ability to understand what is not said, witnessed, or heard.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

The rapid development and widespread adoption of new technologies present both opportunities and challenges for leaders to manage. Key technologies in this digital landscape include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain, and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), among others.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Even non-profits have to carefully manage finances and raise funds using ethical practices. Learning high level ethical thinking will not only help them handle the challenges they are already facing, it will also improve their long term social impact. We start by making ethical thinking “must have” development for leaders. * * *.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Do I have your attention yet? As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works. While there are certainly numerous ways to learn (observation, experience, classroom instruction, relational interactions, etc.),

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

In today’ post I’ll share my thoughts on the value of learning to become a humble leader… It’s been said that life is a long lesson in humility. As a leader, the sooner you come to grips with your humility the better leader you’ll become.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Finance is the backbone of any business. As such, ensuring that your business’s finance department is up to par is important. Here are the top ways to enhance your company’s finance department: Implement Financial Software. Financial software help streamline many of the tasks performed by your finance department.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

The ability to recognize conflict, understand the nature of conflict, and to be able to bring swift and fair resolution to conflict will serve you well as a leader – the inability to do so may well be your downfall. Developing effective conflict resolution skill sets are an essential component of a building a sustainable business model.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While developing an understanding of great communication skills is easier than one might think, being able to appropriately draw upon said skills when the chips are down is not always as easy as one might hope for. So how do you know when your skills have matured to the point that you’ve become an excellent communicator?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Do you have great vision? Do you have boundless energy or mesmerizing charisma? Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# Are you a master of strategy?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Given not all CHROs are created equal, how do you differentiate from those who simply sit in the chair versus those who set the chinning bar for the future of the role. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

I don’t care in the slightest about winning arguments, whether someone is right or wrong, or whether logic is sound or flawed, but I do care about motivation and intent. In the text that follows I’m going to ask you to do some soul searching – up for the challenge?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

It is important for executives to learn to apply focused leverage to a limited number of highest and best use activities rather than to continually shift gears between multiple initiatives. This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. Six Essential Skills for Future Leaders.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. Transforming Legacy Organizations : Turn your Established Business into an Innovation Champion to Win the Future by Kris Østergaard. Everyone has insecurities.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Let me ask you a few simple questions: How do you feel when you’re told no?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof. If you believe you possess a fully developed competency in a section give yourself 10 points. Want to find out?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?” We then looked at some fun ways that corporate leaders have learned to take their failures and celebrate them. In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. Like many leaders, he had no answer. Create a Fail Wall.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Leaders who do not possess a bias toward action, or who cannot deliver on their obligations will not be successful. Frequent readers of this blog can find a veritable plethora of tips on becoming a better and more effective leader. Any leader is only as good as his or her team’s desire to be led by them.

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Women on Business

APRIL 4, 2012

“The Women’s Empowerment Principles seek to point the way to best practice by elaborating the gender dimension of good corporate citizenship, the UN Global Compact , and business’ role in sustainable development. . Women have a strength within their household as the decision makers in finances and big ticket purchases.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Not recognizing, developing, and rewarding talent is the fastest way I know of to drive talent out of your organization and directly into the hands of your competition. The mandates for compliance along with the accompanying maze of bureaucratic processes and procedures, will often take precedence over doing the right thing.

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