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Finance Executive Search: Investing in Leadership for Tomorrow

N2Growth Blog

Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Finance leaders are responsible for setting the vision and strategy of an organization, as well as building and leading high-performing teams.

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101 Things I Learned in Business School

Leading Blog

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: Moral Hazard. perpetually exceed the cash receipts from the previous, smaller sales volume.

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Capital vs. Influence

N2Growth Blog

The moral of this story is don’t get so hung-up on valuation that you fail to get the in the trenches expertise your company will need in future. But now that the beauty contest is over, and you have a very real, and often demanding investment partner kibitzing from the cheap seats, what post-closing value are they really adding?

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If gossip pervades your organization and you are not aware of it, then you clearly don’t have the pulse of your organization, your public statements about the importance of culture and morale will seem disingenuous, and you’re likely guilty of being what I refer to as a disconnected leader. Put simply, good leaders don’t tolerate gossip.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Toxic personalities will put a damper on morale, attempt to intimidate and/or manipulate co-workers for personal gain, and can even chase away a company’s best talent. Many good people in the organization choose the latter course, and both morale and productivity tend to spiral downward.

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The Insiders Guide to Communicating the Big Picture

Let's Grow Leaders

That got a few people’s attention, but now morale is in the tank. I was venting to my finance guy, “don’t they understand that just doing this one thing right could go a long way in paying off their car?” Frustrated, Kelly went old school and writing warnings for those at the bottom of the stack rank.

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To Understand Complexity, Use 7 Dimensions of Ethical Thinking

Leading Blog

Character How can we demonstrate integrity, congruence and moral awareness? Even non-profits have to carefully manage finances and raise funds using ethical practices. As work complexity increases, the ethical thinking we use to address it must advance as well. 7 Lenses™ of Ethical Responsibility. Profit How much money will this make?

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