N2Growth Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

From the era of large mainframes, command line interfaces, and backing up data on tape to the modern world of cloud computing, user-friendly interfaces, and low-code/no-code software development, technology has continued to change rapidly and has significantly shaped our lives and businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

A complex regulatory environment, stringent compliance standards, advanced technology integrations, and a diverse array of patient populations add layers of difficulty to the process. N2Growths extensive evaluation process ensures that the leaders we recommend can manage these dynamic forces in tandem.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

By doing so, leaders can bridge generational gaps, improve collaboration, and enhance productivity, regardless of whether their teams work in-person, remotely, or in hybrid environments. ( They came of age during the early technological revolution, making them adept at using email and other digital tools.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As technology evolves, leaders are faced with an important question: How do you lead effectively in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? Many people think leadership in the AI era is all about understanding technology or staying up to date with trends.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2018

With the onslaught of AI and other disrupting technologies, the workplace will undergo rapid changes. These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face. Managers and their teams are feeling insecure, causing major health hazards. The Tsunami of Change.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is for future leaders to go beyond traditional management techniques. The future demands leaders who can manage teams, drive meaningful change, and uphold integrity. Embrace Continuous Learning: Tomorrow’s leaders must embrace continuous learning.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The pace of technological change shows little sign of slowing, so it’s crucial that employees are able to successfully adapt to each new wave and update their skills in order to fully capitalize on the opportunities available. Unfortunately, it’s increasingly unlikely that employees will be engaging in the learning they need.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hyper-Learning : How to Adapt to the Speed of Change by Edward D. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Professor Ed Hess believes that requires us to become Hyper-Learners: continuously learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Learn from an acrobat and see how to use these concepts to power your goals. Get it wrong and your health may suffer. ” where she shares that a bit of Thoughtful Leadership and intentional living can be a great first step towards awareness of workaholic tendencies and willingness to call them out and do something about them.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2017

Here are four key ways in which you can help managers become better leaders: 1. Helping both current and future leaders develop their leadership skills New managers are often promoted without receiving any training or support that helps them build the skills they will need in their new position.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The workbook is perfect for anyone who wants to improve in their current position, educate the incoming workforce, or start a new opportunity empowered to do their best,” adds Vanderbloemen. Authenticity can do a lot of the heaving lifting for you in terms of building trust and confidence. You don’t have to be perfect, just authentic.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet, many learning and development strategies are built towards forcing leaders to fit themselves into a restrictive mold. After the sessions, there was time for questions, and often, I would be asked, “This is great, but how do I actually use this in my day-to-day?” We have opted for manager/employee alignment tools.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It has called on us to learn to think better. In the list below, you will find resources to help you do just that—think better. The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Certainty is out. Complexity is in. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

While the last decade has flattened our organizations and reduced the need for some managers, the need to create leaders at every level has never been more necessary. We need connected managers to create community and spark collaboration. Supervisors hold the success of a business in their hands, and it’s all in how they manage.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

So, whenever a leader or an organization adopts any new strategy, technology platform, methodology or approach, that adoption has to be driven by both a need and with leadership clarity. There is no better time than now for learning how to avoid risk by leading out from crises before they happen. By Damian D.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As organizations increasingly rely on technology to drive growth and innovation, the role of digital leaders has become paramount. Digital leadership is not limited to technology-driven companies; businesses across industries recognize the need for influential digital leaders to stay competitive in the market.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Moreover, strong leadership in supply chain management ensures cost efficiency. A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Why do some leaders “have a seat at the table,” and some feel they are struggling to bring others along? For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. They may be doing the job mostly right, or they may be doing what their job description says.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Modern CFOs are no longer just about bookkeeping and compliance; they are pivotal in leading with strategic thinking and mastering financial technology. The best CFOs today are those who can bridge the gap between finance and technology, turning data into actionable insights that steer the company forward.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. Targets, management on result, and control remain the magic words. Why would you want to do that? You do better by harnessing this almost natural way of cooperation and collaboration.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Smart new technologies. And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others? And how will this change the way we love, manage and learn from others? One thing is clear: advances in technology have not been matched by the necessary innovation to our social structures.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

In the same way, digital disruption is not about the technology as much as it is about how companies can make their way through the new competitive environment they find themselves in. Digital disruption is more about the people than it is the technology. Each of these gaps poses a different challenge for companies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI? Managers and employees are telling you t hey’re way more productive. Managers and employees are telling you t hey’re way more productive. So where do you start? How do you truly measure the ROI of remote vs. in-person work?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. Aligning on values brings the focus on what is shared; what do we care about?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2019

A PEW RESEARCH CENTER study found that Americans are roughly twice as likely to express worry (72%) than enthusiasm about a future in which robots and computers are capable of doing many jobs that are currently done by humans. Of course, people have always worried that technology would take over their job.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

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: Learn an organization’s culture before working with or for it. Lesson: Moral Hazard.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2017

According to the 2015 Employee Trends Report by Quantum Workplace, one of the biggest areas of concern for team members is that there is often not open and honest communication with managers. Is technology to blame or are there some other dynamics at work. In my experience, yes technology does have a part to play.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

This involves providing insights into AI’s potential and limitations, developing tailored strategies to manage these risks, and fostering a culture of ethical AI use. Investing in Continuous Learning Programs to Stay Current with AI Trends AI technology evolves rapidly, and staying current with its developments is essential.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They always do. International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stress. “A It is something that we deliberately learn, practice, and improve on.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

Although most C-suite executives, mid-level managers, and data practitioners aren’t AI experts — no one is at this pace of change — they shouldn’t implement AI for the sake of implementing AI. Netflix, for example, claims to have saved more than $1 billion annually using machine learning. Organizations can do more with less.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Do you understand the two faces of leadership? Leadership Skills.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Extensive networks, data streams, and state-of-the-art digital technologies are increasingly becoming the foundation of modern operational strategies. The rapid development and widespread adoption of new technologies present both opportunities and challenges for leaders to manage.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Creating and sustaining trust does not, Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta show, come from "reputation-building" and PR but by being the "real deal," creating products, services, and technologies that work, having good intentions, treating people fairly, and taking responsibility for all the impacts an organization creates, whether intended or not.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2019

But in 1999, at the height of the Internet boom, I took a two-year leave of absence to serve as director of system architecture at Akamai Technologies, an MIT start-up located here in Cambridge. Senior researchers become better leaders once they understand how they perceive situations and why they react the way they do. Know thyself.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

How do I keep the digital demands of today from overwhelming my business? Many business leaders are perplexed by the task of leading in an ever-increasing technological world. Yes, we are leaders of people, and yet it feels as if technology and other digital demands keep us from investing in our most valuable resource, our people.

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