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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. McKinsey reports that companies investing in leadership development see improved long-term performance, illustrating how human capital investments can help mitigate leadership risks.

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How N2Growth’s Unique COO Search Process Outpaces the Competition

N2Growth Blog

A COO’s role is integral to any enterprise’s success, serving as the right hand to the CEO and ensuring the seamless functioning of business operations. The COO is often tasked with translating strategy into action, leading critical functions ranging from operations and finance to sales and marketing.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

Prior to founding Co-Creation Partners, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, most recently as a leader in their Organization Practice in North America. Before McKinsey, he worked in marketing for Pepsi Cola International and Procter & Gamble in Europe, the Middle East, and India.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. Involve More People. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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Managing People Isn’t Easy—Here’s Why Most New Leaders Get It Completely Wrong

Lead from Within

Consequently, current Gallup data shows that 82% of companies select the wrong person for management positions, while McKinsey reports that poor leadership costs organizations $15,000 per employee annually in lost productivity. Less Talk, More Impact Inexperienced leaders often overwhelm their teams with constant updates and directives.

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The Ecosystem Economy

Leading Blog

McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. And this is basically how we think of business today.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2023

Leading Blog

It gives you the tools to talk with your colleagues about how you operate, and to set a social contract for how you’ll work together (not just what you’ll be working on). In How To Work with (Almost) Anyone , Michael Bungay Stanier shares a tested process that sets up working relationships for the best possible success.

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