N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

N2Growth, as a premier executive search and leadership advisory firm, recognizes the transformative influence a skilled Commercial Leader can wieldone who interlaces strategic vision, operational excellence, and people-centric leadership into a cohesive path toward profitability and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2024

Initially, the CTO focused primarily on managing IT infrastructure and overseeing hardware and software decisions, ensuring business operations ran smoothly. The role of the CTO has been redefined to include strategic planning, spearheading digital transformation, managing cybersecurity, and driving innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

These technologies are advancing rapidly and redefining the line between human potential and technological innovation. Disruptive Innovations: A Deeper Dive The rise of digital technology has ushered in a new era of disruptive innovations , fundamentally changing traditional business practices, models, and industries.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Leadership transitions can pose a major challenge to any organization, especially in a turbulent environment. This volatility disrupts normal business functioning and poses significant challenges to leadership continuity. Leadership is quintessential in succession planning.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

The Scope and Significance of Global Executive Search Securing top leadership talent is essential in the dynamic and fast-paced business world. Their reach extends beyond borders, tapping into a wider pool of talent and thus making their services invaluable to corporations seeking to fill critical leadership roles.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

In 1999, while working as VP of Software Development for Interface Systems, he had his next “ah ha” moment, when he discovered a new approach to building teams that could result in lasting change and restore the joy he originally felt when he found his calling. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 16, 2014

They chronicled the rise of ID Software, what made them great, and what made them fall apart. Throughout the book you’ll discover amazing leadership lessons and quotes. I think you’ll enjoy the 7 leadership lessons and quotes I picked out from Masters Of Doom. Leadership Masters of Doom pop culture video games'

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Insights and Strategies for Healthcare Leaders to Drive Innovation, Integration, and Success in a Rapidly Evolving Industry. One company that successfully navigated this challenge is a leading international industrial group in healthcare software. This results in data silos, duplication of efforts, and inefficient workflows.

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Innovation Excellence

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton In our race to enable and support hybrid teams, our reliance on collaboration software has inadvertently caused us to forget the art of true collaboration. The pandemic forced us to rely on digital platforms for communication and creativity.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

Agile was originally a software technique, meant to shorten software development times and make the development team more accountable to customer needs. Or, think about innovation. Everyone knows innovation is important. But again, if you can innovate successfully, is that enough? Or what about being more “agile.”

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QAspire

AUGUST 22, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Innovation, Quality & Entrepreneurship at Akshaya Patra Akshaya Patra Foundation in India is a shining example of how social entrepreneurship combined with power of innovation can make a HUGE difference. First, some background information. 600 (or ~$13). Don’t Kill It!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

As Christopher Bishop, head of Herman Miller’s Innovation lab has said, "The war for talent is over, talent has won." Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. I call investing in both professional and personal growth "whole person" development.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2019

Companies are increasingly utilizing automation technologies to increase productivity and innovation. Successful implementation of any change agenda, whether it is new software applications, process, or organization, is dependent on human resources. Essentially, there is no point of arrival ; it is more of a point of next.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

Jesse Stoner of Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership says that a list of values that are simply a list of single words that are not clearly defined can lead to confusion and team conflict, as this true story demonstrates. For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Jon is VP of marketing in the healthcare software industry. He has an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin and has worked for companies like Deloitte, IBM, and BMC Software. Trust Principles for Creativity and Innovation. Creativity and innovation requires a combination of Self-Centered and Community-Centered trust.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. In either case, Digital Transformation is an opportunity for established companies to play a more innovative role in non-traditional ways. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Utilizing a vast network and in-depth industry knowledge, the executive search team at N2Growth focuses on understanding the dynamics within leadership teams. Subsequently, N2Growth leverages its vast global network and software tools to identify potential candidates that fulfill the requisite profile.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This is especially true in today’s fast-paced, constantly-changing business environment, where new developments and innovations can quickly disrupt traditional ways of doing things. Employee tracking software are becoming more common. The rise of remote work has led many organizations to use employee tracking software.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2013

In their book From Smart to Wise , Prasad Kaipa and Navi Radjou state that wise leadership succeeds where smart leadership cannot. Wise leadership isn’t about how smart you are. Here, the authors share how to develop that perspective: How we see the world—our leadership perspective—shapes our thoughts, decisions, and actions.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. Are you likely to adopt a new software application that is poorly designed? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 30, 2013

Innovative. Whether you’re CEO of a company, a team manager or a hard-working employee, adopting and possessing leadership qualities can enhance your professional trajectory and even personal life. Labeling yourself as a leader and possessing leadership qualities personally executed can be seen as different entities.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Organizations in practically every industry are struggling to attract and retain great talent, especially in senior and executive leadership roles. With average job tenures dropping at every level, Human Resource professionals may need to play a more active role in leadership development and coaching.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

When a business is driven by AI, software instructions, and algorithms make up the critical path in the way the firm delivers value.” AI is breaking down the limits that are inherent in traditional operating models to drive new value, growth, and innovation. And this is especially important in a leadership context.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Good business processes serve as the central nervous system for your organization providing a framework for every action, decision, activity or innovation to flow from and through. Don’t Think Product – Think Outcome: I know this will offend some, but process is not a new software program or application.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Last week, much of the business and technology world was abuzz over a US court’s landmark decision against Samsung that it had violated some of Apple’s software and design copyrights. And therein lies the fundamental gap that we see in today’s leadership – one where we’ve replaced the action verb “learn” with “copy”.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Last week, much of the business and technology world was abuzz over a US court’s landmark decision against Samsung that it had violated some of Apple’s software and design copyrights. And therein lies the fundamental gap that we see in today’s leadership – one where we’ve replaced the action verb “learn” with “copy”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 17, 2016

Guest post from Matt Tenney There is much debate over the question of whether innovative people are born as innovators, or if innovation is something that is trainable. Although many people use the words creative and innovative as synonyms, the two are actually quite distinct. A well-known example of this is Bill Gates.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? In addition, Randy is an established author as well as a legacy leadership expert. Kotter Microsoft Randy Ottinger Satya Nadella'

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

By definition, good ideas mean an improvement over the present, a better way of doing things or even better lives.That’s why people who have good ideas expect their leaders to act on them, which creates an instant test of leadership: do you care enough for those around you to do something positive with the idea?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Talent Trends: Emerging Leadership Skills for the Future The continual development of digital technology and automation in today’s corporate world demands a new paradigm in leadership. These traditional soft-skill qualities must now be enhanced with new hard skill sets to future-proof one’s leadership style.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Many of these hybrid workers are professionals like lawyers, accountants, marketers, and software engineers, most with a college degree or higher. They say that training, mentoring, innovation, and company culture suffer when employees are not in the office five days a week.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The accommodation can be in the form of a flexible work schedule, the installation of software that helps them perform their job better; a move to another department or city nearer to health facilities or home; the addition of a ramp and disabled- friendly restrooms. Make use of Assistive technology.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Big visions, carefully crafted strategies, and detailed plans are signs of great leadership. Could we be ignoring the most fundamental tool that anyone can use to create disruptive innovation and change? But early on, CEO Scott Cook and his leadership team kept hearing that small businesses were using the product.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture? During our conversation it was evident that he is proud that SAS is developing software to solve problems in a broad range of fields. Education is another field he mentioned.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 29, 2024

In one of my early leadership roles, I encountered a team that seemed destined for success. Tools like project management software can help track progress and keep everyone informed. Encouraging a culture of learning from failures, rather than punishing them, can also lead to a more resilient and innovative team.

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