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Beyond Recruitment: N2Growth’s COO Search Solutions Enhance Organizational Performance

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Role of a Chief Operating Officer A Chief Operating Officer (COO) holds a distinctive and crucial role in the corporate ecosystem. Equipped with a holistic view of the organization’s objectives and a deep understanding of its operations, a COO is often considered the key driver of operational excellence.

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Preview Thursday: Total Value Optimization

Lead Change Blog

Its performance determines the health of your daily operations and the long-term success of your enterprise. With no obvious signs of disease, it may be tempting for the CEO or equity partner to think, “Well, the pain is mild and we’re managing through it, so let’s do the best we can and strive for improvement.”

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

For years, companies have been pouring money into people, processes, and technology that can help them manage risk. They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Managers could keep the organization within acceptable tolerance ranges, driving performance to plan.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

To demonstrate it, we’ve examined a number of industries and mapped the level of capabilities coherence in the portfolio of each of the major players against their operating margins over the past five years. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence. We call this measure the ‘coherence premium.’

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

billion in revenue, over $1 billion in gross profit and $500 million in EBITDA. Interestingly, the company's founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia. When they confront overload, managers often react in ways that put distance between themselves and the front line.

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