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How to Rapidly Address Leadership Gaps with Interim Executives: A Comprehensive Guide

N2Growth Blog

Engaged for a defined period, they lead specific initiatives, manage transitions, or stabilize operations during times of change. Their external perspective allows for objective assessment of existing processes, identification of inefficiencies, and proposal of innovative solutions.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

The new CxO will be tasked to define and craft strategy, make investment proposals, and defend them, so they have depth in the related sector and a brain the size of an elephant. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. Facebook proficiency does not qualify.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2020

Leading Blog

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. Complexity is in. Common sense no longer helps us connect the dots. Other people’s agenda becomes our narrative. Marco Iansiti and Karim R.

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What Makes P&G Great?

In the CEO Afterlife

No matter what they do, from technology to advertising, they believe that it is not as good as it can be or as good as it ought to be. Once taken, they co-operatively move forward toward the common goal. The organization is structured in a way that almost every proposal requires concurrence from a peer.

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3 Valuable Insights Leaders Can Learn From Neuroscience

Tanveer Naseer

Breakthroughs in human brain research (using conventional experimental psychology research in addition to relatively new technologies like CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging) are revealing new insights about cognitive processes. The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating.

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Right Leadership, Right Model

Great Leadership By Dan

Morgan : A few decades ago, when time was still a gentle concept, companies just rocked along in their comfortable hierarchies, everything centralized, proposals moving up the chain of command and decisions moving down at approximately the speed of glue. Guest post from Charles D. But there’s always tinkering to be done.

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NASA layoffs and office closures threaten a legacy of innovation

HR Digest

Petro framed the NASA job cuts as part of a broader phased reduction in force aimed at streamlining the agencys operations. Established in 2021, the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy was designed to provide evidence-based insights to NASAs leadership. Were viewing this as an opportunity to reshape our workforce, Petro wrote.