N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

According to Invest Europe’s annual report 2023 , diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have also become critical components of venture capital assessments. Diverse teams are shown to be more innovative and resilient, and this shift underscores diversity as a strategic business advantage, particularly in fostering long-term growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. I’ve got a manager of managers on my team, let’s call her “Sue.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. When I stepped away, my managers did not have the experience, skills, or courage to step into that role (see also How to Be a More Courageous Manager).

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? Try it with your direct reports and then teach them how to. I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. But intentional change isn’t easy.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. It’s a lot of things, actually, but one of the big ones is whether or not the organization has created a permission structure for innovation. What’s the difference between the two groups?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

thanks for this report. a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. It changes the game. Courtesies Aren’t Gratitude. thanks for the update. thanks for coming to the meeting.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

At N2Growth, we believe that fostering an inclusive environment is not just ethically sound— it’s a critical driver of innovation and sustainable growth. Organizations that cultivate environments where everyone feels valued and heard are better positioned to foster innovation, boost employee engagement, and inspire loyalty.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. Capacity is a leader’s ability to contain, manage, or affect change in the evolving circumstances within their role. We have opted for manager/employee alignment tools. There is no one way to be a leader.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

With CFOs having to supervise their company’s digital activities and resolve issues outside the traditional finance function, the number of their direct reports is on the rise. This is where cloud platforms and new technologies play an essential source of CFO innovation and value-added to their business. .

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

In Wellbeing at Work , Jim Clifton and Jim Harter report that beginning in the late 1950s, Gallup sought to discover and quantify the difference between the best possible life and the worst possible life. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Managers brought in their own grills to cook the burgers. ” It’s tricky to be quick and clever in a scene like that.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

As great as that idea sounds it is not realistic and leaders must decide what to do when one of their reports is not acting accountably. There are two significant problems with this approach to managing accountability. But there is another way a leader can manage accountability and that is by setting up their team to be accountable.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

An orientation to something more than money and metrics is hard to find in most Wall Street analyses and reporting. Initiative, innovation, and risk-taking lose out because they tend to harm metrics. Quantitative measurements do help people manage more efficiently. 72 percent of employees saw them as a good manager.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Another aspect of the challenges faced by FinTech leaders is managing teams through a series of transformations successfully. To do so, successful management of their expectations is essential. FinTech managed to do that by making financial services accessible and affordable globally.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

You don't need a powerful title or a line of direct reports—you have everything you need to use them right now. Innovating Innovation : Leadership Tools For Moving Your Business Forward and Making Change Happen David Morey. Innovation is broken. The Making of a Manager : What to Do When Everyone Looks to You Julie Zhuo.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

To make matters worse, many leaders and managers work in organizations layered with forced hierarchies and inherently distrustful systems. Oh, sure,” your workers may think, “I’ll trust you … just as soon as you stop monitoring our e-mails, stop drug testing, or stop requiring to-the-minute time reports.” The result?

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 10, 2024

In business, the adage "penny wise and pound foolish" often describes a short-sighted approach to cost management that undermines long-term success. This reluctance stifles innovation and prevents the workforce from acquiring new skills essential for adapting to market changes.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Outstanding CROs demonstrate a talent for innovation, change management, and strategic decision-making. By managing the uncertainties of a fluctuating market, an experienced CRO guides the organization toward its financial goals. In this role, industry experience isn’t just a bonus—it’s a crucial asset.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

In a recent article, I highlighted some of the challenges involved in translating investment in technology and innovation into productivity improvements across the economy. This is emphasized by the fact that only 12% of respondents reported to having achieved an outstanding result using innovative dissemination channels.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

In Game Changer , authors Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg report that “Tech and digitization have disrupted the very foundation of all ventures, business, government, or otherwise and in doing so have handed over controls to those who have the exceptional skills to provide efficiency and meaningful growth.”. They work well on teams.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 9, 2023

Inclusive society The report highlights the challenges currently facing households as they struggle to cope with rising inflation. The report reveals that while more people have access to bank accounts than ever before, the remaining unbanked population continues to face significant problems in a society that is increasingly cashless.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Operating as a vital conduit between the various departments within an organization and its highest levels of management, their responsibilities include translating strategic goals into workable business plans and supervising the day-to-day operations to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. We need to make our interactions count.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

How to Help a Manager Who’s Struggling, Right Now by @lizkislik. Edelman Trust Report 2020: How To Build Greater Levels Of Trust from @JohnBaldoni. How to Create a Permission Structure for Innovation by @ScottEblin. Four Huge Mistakes Schools Have Made Over the Years via @GrowingLeaders. Want to understand someone?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A recent survey across the mining sector in Southern Africa shows that Mining companies have not yet hit the targeted 30% gender mark on boards, and innovation and technology skills are not represented at the board level either. This trend seems to be replicated in Australia, reporting only 19.6%

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

How Innovation Works : And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley. Innovation is crucially different from invention, because it is the turning of inventions into things of practical and affordable use to people. Far from there being too much innovation, we may be on the brink of an innovation famine.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Ultimately, it’s part of a manager’s job to deal with workplace conflict head-on. Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the manager’s reputation. Employees learn more from watching a manager’s behaviors than they do from what the manager says.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

70% of participants report the same or more conflict over the last few years. Managers are relearning how to lead and support their teams. Of the 30% who reported less conflict, nearly half of those say it’s because they (or the people they were in conflict with) changed jobs, or they’re working remotely.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2020

Negative responses are often the default when a boss wants to maintain power, or a direct report wants to avoid hassles. If it’s managers or staff who tend to reject requests or new policies, take some time to set firm boundaries and expectations: We expect you to accept new assignments, protocols, or crunch-time duties.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Employees will not embrace taking risks or innovating in new ways if they are fearful of being punished, criticized, or looked down upon for making mistakes. In my viewpoint, the biggest difference between being a “leader” and a “manager” is that leaders initiate change. Leading organizational change is tough work!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Moreover, the board’s critical role extends to risk management, ensuring robust processes are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, bolstering the organization’s success trajectory. Such a board is not merely a governance powerhouse but a catalyst for innovation, decision-making sagacity, and long-term sustainability.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

To wit, we get stuck in old ways of doing things; we convince ourselves that change would be impossible because nobody could fix such a nincompoopish company anyway; or we fret that even if we tried to lead a change, none of the nincompoops to whom we report or work with would listen. Innovation. How do you create customer value?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Formalize Sustainability: New laws this year require certain businesses to report their level of pollution. Metrics, Metrics, Metrics: You cannot manage what you cannot measure. It’s the new year and you need new goals.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This covers not only understanding how digital platforms work but also appreciating their strategic value and harnessing them effectively to drive innovation and change. Through automation, tasks such as data analysis, finance management, and even performance tracking are being efficiently conducted by automated tools.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 31, 2023

It’s less common for poor management to be targeted to explain lackluster productivity, but research from Stanford’s Nick Bloom suggests that is a mistake. Weak management Bloom’s World Management Survey was established in 2004 to measure management practices across hundreds of medium-sized firms in the likes of the U.K.,

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