N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The digital revolution has fundamentally reshaped how businesses operate and engage with customers. This role involves integrating cutting-edge technologies, optimizing digital platforms, and fostering innovation to enhance operational efficiency and customer value.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Help Your Team Get Unstuck. Despite all the change going on, have you noticed your team sometimes gets stuck in a rut of uninspiring routines? But, is it giving your team what they need most, now? It’s easier for your team to keep thinking and doing things the way that’s worked before.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Interim executives can rapidly integrate into existing teams, provide immediate leadership, and drive strategic initiatives forward with minimal disruption. Working collaboratively with existing teams, they foster a culture of change that is both inclusive and performance-driven.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As Polly Barnes, Operating Partner at EQT Ventures , notes, After their first big venture round, its no longer just about the meits about the we. Leaders who exhibit empathy and practice authentic leadership are more likely to build trust within their teams, fostering psychological safety, which is essential for innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2025

While they may excel individually, leadership requires a shift in focus from personal achievements to team success. Jean-Christophe Simon highlights, Testing leadership potential in low-risk environments, such as projects or small teams, can reveal whether an individual is ready for greater responsibilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. AND then, I became a large team operations leader. My team is on a variety of spots on the curve of employee growth. Exploring the S Curve of Employee Growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

To correct this, they try to repurpose their existing operating systemdesigned for efficient, scaled executionto do something it was never designed to do: operate with a degree of inefficiency to create learning. Many corporate executives are tempted to look at startup successes and instruct their teams to act more like a startup.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

“Karin, our team is growing. ” “Leading was easy when our team was small, but now our team is growing. ” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. Teach your team how to think. How do I lead well now?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

This means fostering diverse teams, building networks that bridge silos, and nurturing cultures where collaboration is encouraged. When individuals feel connected to their teams, their leaders, and the broader organization, theyre more likely to stay and perform at their best. These teams are where the work gets done.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. Doing so requires CEOs to not only reinvent themselves and their organizations but also to rethink their executive teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? He gained the respect of his team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? He gained the respect of his team.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Visionary Leadership: Exceptional executives have the foresight to anticipate industry shifts and envision how technology can transform business operations. Catalysts for Change: These executives excel at building high-performing teams and fostering a culture where innovation thrives.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

At the heart of every successful business enterprise is the unmistakable influence of a Chief Operating Officer– they oversee daily operations, improve processes, and promote innovation and transformation. The COO’s influence extends far beyond mere operational management.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

They engage every level of the companyfrom executive teams to frontline staffguiding managers through complex issues, clarifying regulatory requirements, and championing a culture that prizes transparency. Moreover, positioning compliance as integral to day-to-day operations creates space for more informed decision-making.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Engaged for a defined period, they lead specific initiatives, manage transitions, or stabilize operations during times of change. Fresh Perspectives and Innovation: Their external viewpoint allows them to offer unbiased insights and innovative solutions that internal teams might overlook due to established routines.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Indeed, executives often see themselves as industry or functional domain expertswhether in tech, health sciences, finance, or as an engineer, designer, or head of operations. For example, evidence shows that for most of us, operating on fewer than six hours of sleep is equivalent to operating while drunk. In the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Importance of Strategic Commercial Leadership Strategic leadership is the linchpin that aligns an organization’s vision with its operational execution. Leaders in these roles are not just administrators but visionaries who anticipate market shifts and guide their teams accordingly. Leadership qualities are paramount.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For example, an entrepreneur who excels in the startup phase may find that scaling operations globally requires a different skill set. Executives bring invaluable insights into the company’s operations and culture, while the board provides strategic oversight and an objective perspective.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Understanding the Evolving Role of a Chief Operating Officer In the ever-evolving world of business, the role of a Chief Operating Officer (COO) is undergoing numerous transformations. Their role expands beyond mere efficient operations, reaching into complex problem-solving, organizational design, and corporate transformation.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

But team meetings dont have to be this way. Your team gatherings are a prime opportunity to foster collaboration and engagement, especially if you rethink how they end. find a team meeting template that doesnt suck explained in a previous blog!) changes that dynamic. The key is follow-through.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Strategic Advantage of Executive Leadership Team Evaluations & Assessments Executive leadership team evaluations provide a critical strategic advantage for organizations. Through a comprehensive evaluation process, executive leadership teams gain a better understanding of their strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Leaders who possess strong business acumen capacity do not just respond to the present; they anticipate the future, aligning their teams and resources to navigate complexity and seize opportunities before the opportunity presents itself. In the dynamic environment of a rapidly scaling business, this ability is absolutely indispensable.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 11, 2025

Your Team's Mindset Is Your Greatest Asset Your greatest asset is not your people. Skills, experience, and knowledge matter, but they are useless if your team approaches their work with the wrong perspective. Leaders influence, inspire, and multiply the capacity of their teams. Data beats guesswork every time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. When you embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they’ll work together to help you, your teams, and organization thrive. Do you and your team hold one another accountable for commitments?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This role is no longer confined to technical oversight or incremental operational improvements. In parallel, their remit includes guiding organizational mindsets so that each business functionmarketing, sales, operations, human resourcesoperates cohesively under a unified digital vision.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Identifying, attracting, and retaining top healthcare executives who can harmonize quality care, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth is no small task. This unwavering focus on excellence ensures that the organization remains responsive to patient needs and strategically positioned to provide superior outcomes.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?” The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders. In other words, it doesn’t really matter what level the leader is operating at, pretty much everyone lately is asking the question.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Start by immersing them in the company’s structure, culture, and key operations, ensuring they understand both the formal and informal aspects of the organization. Facilitate introductions with key team members and stakeholders to build trust and rapport quickly.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Kevin Roberts on the future of business: “Even the best teams lose. A family will beat a team, a tribe, an institution, a community time after time. If you feel like a family and play like a team, your organization will operate at peak performance. Family is the toughest operating unit out there.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 12, 2025

At least three things seem to be critical for executive leaders and their leadership teams in a BANI operating environment: agility, seamless, no drama collaboration, setting the early warning radar system to high. Having the agility to quickly respond as a team is going to be critical. Take care of yourself and your team.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 13, 2025

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more conventional teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling even an obsession. Pursue a limited set of vital priorities less is more.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

When guided by data-driven insights, these experience-focused initiatives can substantially improve team members’ feelings about their work. Rather than treating staff as a function of operations, executives are leveraging an employee-centric ethos to spark innovation and drive sustainable growth.

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QAspire

JULY 18, 2024

Knowledge in organizations flows “across” people and teams. During my 6 years tenure as an organizational leader, I had reasonable success in building a culture of constant learning starting from one to one interactions, functional practices to cross-team learning forums. That is the tip of the iceberg – visible and accessible.

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