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M&A Without Buying the Company

N2Growth Blog

Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook.

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Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. To be unaware of, or to discount changing environments would be a leadership mistake. Little more than a decade of web brilliance and we have an enterprise generating $38 billion in revenues.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The new economy doesn’t operate that way. But they cannot be permitted to lead; make them play catch-up by continuing to strategically innovate. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. But their leaders are farsighted.

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Time For Women to Compete

Women on Business

They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. The truth is that while these things matter they discount the things we can control. A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. Make your goal specific.

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5 Keys For Developing An Employee Engagement Strategy

Tanveer Naseer

Draft a provocative vision and values The operative word here being, “ provocative.” Granted, it’s often said in an attempt to help put things in perspective, but what people fail to realize is that it also discounts the work everyone is doing. Frankly, those should be the givens in every organization.

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How to Build Leadership Skills When You’re Not A Leader

LDRLB

Innovative. He or she oversees operations and makes decisions for the organization. Don’t discount the fact that as an indirect result of possessing exemplary characteristics, you will inspire and influence others as well as change the perceptions others’ have of you.

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“As a manager, I want my team to flourish”

Chartered Management Institute

Since September 2024, he has been chief operating officer at Diversity Role Models, a charity that promotes acceptance of individual differences and aims to end bullying in schools. In his role, he oversees operations, finance, governance and HR. Adam has spent much of his career in the education, arts and voluntary sectors.

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