Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2024

This evolution is not just valuable; it’s vital; the expanding global marketplace and the relentless march of technological innovation have made the old models of leadership development ineffectual and obsolete. Forward-thinking organizations are now leveraging new tools and platforms to accelerate this kind of development.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

With the increasing importance of data and analytics that spans across several business areas, the need for a CDO who can adapt, innovate, and lead in this complex environment has grown significantly. Additionally, the CDO is responsible for complying with global data protection regulations, reducing risk for the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

It goes beyond the ability to bounce back from challenges; it includes an organization’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond, and adapt to gradual changes or sudden disruptions to survive and succeed. A resilient organization is both reactive and proactive, strengthening its ability to adapt to withstand external shocks.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Importance of Finding Innovators in the Life Sciences Industry In today’s rapidly evolving life sciences industry, finding innovators has become critical for organizations seeking to stay ahead of the curve. Finding innovators in the life sciences industry The importance of innovative leadership cannot be overstated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth. I don’t want to crush team innovation, but I can’t possibly use them all. You’re doing a lot of things right when it comes to fostering psychological safety and encouraging team innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Forward-thinking organizations understand the need to go beyond mere regulatory compliance. Innovative Approaches to Green Environmental Performance In pursuing environmental stewardship, businesses invest in innovative strategies to minimize their ecological impact.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

These seasoned professionals step into senior roles within an organization on a temporary basis, engaging in strategic decision-making, crisis management, turnaround schemes, or filling gaps due to sudden departures or absences of incumbent executives.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 8, 2021

T HE potential for innovation exists within our organizations. How do you make innovation as natural as eating and sleeping? And that doesn’t begin by copying the relics of highly innovative companies. Their definition of innovation is “ something different that creates value.” Innovators ask, “What if?” “Is

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Established organizations of a certain size and age, sometimes called “legacy organizations,” are stressed by the entrepreneurial successes. The bad news for established organizations is that innovation for them is much more difficult than it is for startups. The Three Tracks of Innovation. All three are important.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

An organization can effectively protect and maintain its leadership positions by anticipating potential changes and planning ahead. These roles, which are hard to define and exist in innovative lines of business, require new, creative succession planning strategies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 29, 2020

They regularly asked people at every level of the organization for their ideas, suggestions for innovation and solutions. The post How to Maintain a Steady Stream of Innovation and Solutions appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. They […].

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Which Practices to Jettison The poorest-run organizations refuse to fire people. Yet terminating poor performers is a service to the performer as much as to the organization. And too many organizations hold on to processes and procedures that not only will not help to reach the vision, but will usually impede progress.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2024

How Small Businesses Can Do Their Part In Sustainability Today I talk with Cooper Wechkin Founder and CEO of RyeStrategy about the business case for a sustainable organization (even for small organizations). 84% of those people think their organizations aren’t doing enough. Where can I start?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Understanding the Difference: Defining Coaching and Consulting Defining Coaching and Consulting requires a clear understanding of the roles and purposes they serve within organizations. In contrast, consulting is a more directive approach that involves providing expert advice and guidance to organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 18, 2020

If you want to build teams of micro-innovators, problem solvers, and customer advocates, eliminate the toxic courage crushers intimidating your people. The post How to Overcome the Toxic Courage Crushers in Your Organization appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Eliminate the Courage Crushers A […].

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2020

Innovation is within each of us. If we are going to be an innovator, we need to have a healthy relationship with change. Change is an opportunity to innovate. Tamara Ghandour defines innovation as “thinking differently about what’s right in front of you to create an advantage” in her book Innovation is Everybody’s Business.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

In the years leading up to 2018, I have spent my time bringing innovation to the financial services space. As such it is all about innovation. And now, from a distance, my optimism regarding the sector’s ability to innovate and capture opportunities has not changed. Let’s study a bit about Innovation.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Training and learning development are critical in any high-functioning organization. In this article, we will explore how embracing the innovative training delivery methods of a forward-thinking organization can nurture organizational growth and long-term success.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 8, 2020

Psychological safety in today’s workplaces has been garnering a lot of attention as leaders and organizations look for ways to boost productivity and retention in their workplace. But is our understanding of this concept too narrow?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Developing an AI-ready organization is not merely a choice but a necessity to stay competitive and relevant. In this blog post, we will explore the critical importance of fostering an environment that embraces AI, highlighting how it can drive innovation, efficiency, and sustainable growth.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. I NNOVATION has always been important. New technology will change the way we work.

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Center for Creative Leadership

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you think about it, the model of disruptive innovation is the exception, not the rule. Many leaders associate the term “innovation” with game-changing disruptions of existing industries or the creation of entirely new ones, like the way Apple’s iTunes helped create a whole new way to sell and distribute music.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 23, 2024

Workers who switch to different jobs, teams, or companies—called seconded employees—can boost innovation, according to new research from ESMT Berlin. Even though people and organizations want to pick new ideas, they often reject them because they’re tricky, risky, and hard to predict.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

E VERYONE WANTS to be an innovator. Every organization wants to be innovative; it doesn’t matter if it’s a church, a for-profit or non-profit business, or a government agency. To not be innovative is to risk being left behind. But how many of us are truly innovative? How does work get done in your organization?

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 25, 2021

When it comes to conversations around curiosity in today’s workplace, the focus tends to be on how it helps to drive innovation. But as my guest Dr. Shannon Minifie points out in this episode of my leadership podcast, when leaders unleash the full power of curiosity in their organization, they. Click to continue reading.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, building a resilient organization is more critical than ever. The ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to disruptions is a key factor in ensuring your organization’s long-term success.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Are you a High-Creative leader, capable of rapidly growing your organization while simultaneously transforming it into a more agile, innovative, adaptive, and engaging workplace? Bob Anderson and Bill Adams’ book, Scaling Leadership , provides a proven framework for magnifying agile and scalable leadership in your organization.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Great leaders are essential for the success of any organization. But how do the best organizations develop great leaders? Through the following strategies: Identifying and promoting potential leaders: The best organizations have a system in place for identifying and promoting potential leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And now he’s written, Going on the Offense: A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation. Most companies pray for one innovation to skyrocket their growth. Dr. Behnam Tabrizi Tabrizi has whittled those qualities down into eight main drivers of perpetual innovation : Setting an Existential Purpose: Why Does Your Company Matter?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And what happens when said hospital is a major global expansion of the world-famous, highly innovative Cleveland Clinic? In Dr. Suri’s view, this is the only way to facilitate a culture of continuous learning and results–on the road to creating a brand new ‘innovation factory.’ ’ Let’s take a step back.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 15, 2022

There is an interesting belief, and bias within organizations and the people who work within them, especially those in leadership positions who want to create an air of certainty and control: Hindsight bias is the common tendency for people to perceive past events as having been more predictable than they were.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Creating psychological safety is essential in a world where innovation, integrity, and renewal can make the difference between success and failure. In The Fearless Organization , Amy Edmondson explains what psychological safety is and what it isn’t and how we can create in our organizations. We all—most of us—manage our image.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 4, 2024

Sam Adeyemi offers insight to business executives and C-suite professionals on cultivating innovation within any organization. ” 5 Leadership Tips to Unlock Your Team’s Potential Innovating is a lot like driving down a road.

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Lead from Within

MAY 17, 2024

In the world of corporate hierarchies, top-heavy organizations often take center stage. While top-heavy organizations may seem efficient on the surface, there are several hidden flaws that often go unnoticed. Communication Bottlenecks: In top-heavy organizations, communication can become a bottleneck.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 15, 2024

“The fact is that most companies are structured to maximize efficiency and minimize risk, resulting in an environment that ultimately prevents meaningful innovations,” explains Elliott Parker , author of the new book, The Illusion of Innovation. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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