N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Staying updated with Artificial Intelligence advancements, automation, and FinTech is essential for optimizing financial operations and planning business growth. CFOs must interpret complex data, uncover growth opportunities, and anticipate financial risks to make informed decisions.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) presents both unprecedented opportunities and significant risks for leaders. While AI can enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and drive innovation, it also brings challenges such as ethical concerns, job displacement, and data privacy issues.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Regular board evaluations and leadership assessments provide valuable insights into the board’s dynamics, functioning, and overall effectiveness. Their expertise in leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions brings a valuable outsider perspective to the evaluation process.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2013

StrategyDriven is proud to announce the launch of a risk management resource forum; providing innovative thought leadership and collaboration opportunities to help leaders effectively address their most pressing operational risks. These documents can be accessed by clicking here. Consider leaving a comment!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Their leadership ensures the organization is ready to meet challenges and thrive. Their leadership style, strategic choices, and personal behavior set the tone for the company culture, influencing whether the work environment is invigorating or demoralizing. Conversely, a CEO’s approach can also have a detrimental impact.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

While some may know how to create effective strategies, their businesses still fail because of inappropriate leadership. It is necessary to state that many people do not see ineffective leadership as a weakness in their businesses. This article shows eight ways to improve your strategy and leadership skills to scale your business.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 These transformations typically involve a profound change in how a business operates, encompassing people, process, and technology.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Financial Leadership: Finding the Right Talent for Your Organization Financial leadership requires finding the right talent for long-term success. The Impact of Effective Financial Leadership on Business Performance The influence of effective financial leadership on business performance is significant.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Understanding the Role of a Chief Commercial Officer In the complex world of corporate leadership, a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) holds a pivotal role. A strong operational understanding forms the basis of a CCO’s role, facilitating a balance between strategic planning and effective execution.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

There are various job titles such as; Chief Security Officer (CSO), Chief Risk Officer, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), V.P., Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of leadership, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Enhancing Risk Management: AI can assess risks more accurately and in real-time. Embracing innovative tools and technologies is no longer optional; it’s a strategic imperative. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Understanding the Chief Digital Officer’s Position Strong leadership is consistently emphasized as technology becomes increasingly prevalent worldwide. By doing so, the digital ecosystem is strengthened, processes are accelerated, and operational efficiency is enhanced. This is where the Chief Digital Officer (CDO) comes in.

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Lead from Within

JULY 25, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand the remarkable impact a future-oriented mindset can have on a leader’s success. As a result, teams can prepare and address potential issues before they escalate, ensuring smoother operations and reducing reactive measures. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Engaging in risk management and scenario planning is also paramount. Digital tools and AI/ML allow businesses to thrive in an unpredictable economy by strengthening financial stability and enhancing operational efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2017

It focuses on the cultural aspects of strategy, leadership, motivation orientation, risk management and change adaptability. The work here identifies ways to optimize performance and determines the people and technologies needed to streamline operations.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Leadership Skill Enhancement : Focusing on leadership, they ensure entrepreneurs effectively lead teams and foster a positive culture. Balanced Perspectives : Coaches help maintain a vision that encompasses both detailed operations and broader strategic goals.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Leadership Skill Enhancement : Focusing on leadership, they ensure entrepreneurs effectively lead teams and foster a positive culture. Balanced Perspectives : Coaches help maintain a vision that encompasses both detailed operations and broader strategic goals.

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Chartered Management Institute

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This premise equally applies to the environment businesses operate in today. Human error is a very real consequence of people operating in the real world. While this can help facilitate risk management , it can also be a hindrance in a constantly changing world.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The framework consists of a number of phases that aim to combine core business continuity management standards alongside key qualities, such as flexibility and agility to enable supply chains to adapt to volatile business situations. Our framework draws on the strengths of both.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 13, 2012

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. In turn, this creates space for a resilient workplace culture to flourish and generate sustainable ways of operating.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2013

.” “An effective safety culture is far more than slogans and posters,” continues Greg Gaskey, StrategyDriven’s Chief Operations Officer. ” Nathan and Greg authored Preventing Catastrophic Industrial Accidents based on their decades of experience managing nuclear and industrial complex operations. .”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 25, 2024

It’s the Small Stuff In leadership, the focus often gravitates towards grand visions and sweeping changes. Leveraging Technology Today’s leaders have at their disposal an array of technological tools to monitor and manage small threats. The big stuff. We think that lions and sharks are scary, and we dismiss the tiny mosquito.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Operations are sound, professional and productive. The Big Picture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Auditing/monitoring and risk assessment – risk assessment is the "radar screen" of threats to your company. How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization? How and when are audits performed that "kick the tires" on key activities?

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The combination of business and military leadership experience added insight and perspective to their book. . It is a new, more advanced way of studying environments, making decisions, building cultures, and operating on a day-to-day basis. Leadership Practices to Watch. Take a smart risk. Northern Command.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

In recent research conducted by Ernst & Young, the top finding was that organizations with greater risk management maturity—that is to say, those that do focus on strategic risks and have integrated their various risk management activities—outperform their peers financially.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2024

Although decision risk underpins everything we do, it gets less attention than it deserves. Decision-making is not taught, yet excellence is assumed in leadership echelons and corridors of power. We’re bombarded by a modern environment that operates against us. You mention RISK-based traps. It’s not our fault.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Relate Articles: Complimentary Resource – Compensation Management in the Recovering Economy. Complimentary Resource – Operational Risk Management: How Best-in-Class Manufacturers Improve Operating Performance with Proactive Risk Reduction.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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