N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Entrusted with driving commercial strategy, this leader leverages company resources to maximize market impact and revenue growth. Organizations with strong commercial leadership are more adaptable and often outperform their peers in times of uncertainty– that’s today’s environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2024

Employee retention strategies will help your team stick around through reorganizations, layoffs, and other corporate chaos. Effective employee retention strategies are critical to help your team come through the other side with confidence and enthusiasm for their work. And that helps quell the uncertainty.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

These leaders help navigate complex transformations, implement growth strategies, or fill critical skill gaps, ensuring continuity and minimizing risks associated with sudden leadership voids. When clear leadership is absent, employees may experience uncertainty, leading to decreased motivation, productivity, and higher turnover rates.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

This seemingly small narrative intervention represents the intersection of two critical business imperatives: retaining top talent and developing leaders who can navigate uncertainty. Oftentimes, the most powerful retention strategy for exceptional talent has surprisingly little to do with compensation packages or corner offices.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Complexity and uncertainty mean unpredictable business outcomes, yet decisions are made based on assumptions of certainty that don’t include the interdependence and emergence of your employees, customers, supply chain, and eventually, success. Leading in Complexity and Uncertainty. 21:14 Complexity is the reality. Get the Book.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These evaluations provide valuable insights into how well a team can steer their organization through challenges, making it an essential part of investment strategies. Teams must now demonstrate the ability to grow, adapt, and cultivate a culture aligned with their company’s vision and strategy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

In his simple but powerful step-by-step strategy, Silverstein shows you how to identify what you should be acting on and create continuous progress on your goals and in your life. Momentum is constant, conscious movement toward your goal that is in alignment with your purpose and mission.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Organizational resilience is a quality that becomes apparent when businesses face adversity, especially during times of widespread uncertainty and constantly changing regulations. The responsibility lies with these leaders to navigate uncertainty and foster a culture emphasizing adaptability and innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Understanding the Role of a Chief Revenue Officer The Chief Revenue Officer is a key member of the executive team, collaborating closely with the CEO, CFO, and COO to steer the organization’s overall growth strategy. For example, ask how they would develop a strategy to drive revenue growth or navigate a significant revenue downturn.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

The result is a feedback-rich environment where leaders are encouraged to evolve in ways that directly support overall organizational strategy. This combined methodology paints a comprehensive picture of an individuals potential, allowing decision-makers to fine-tune development strategies.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So, we need a strategy. Broadly speaking, there are peak pressure moments — “short, violent bursts of extreme importance and uncertainty” — and there is pressure over the long haul — “periods of grinding volume mixed with importance and uncertainty along the way.” But combined with uncertainty , it becomes intense pressure.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2025

The world is moving faster than ever, and leading through uncertainty can feel overwhelming. Kevin shares practical strategies to build flexibility into your leadership habits for long-term success. Episode 294: What if being a more flexible leader could help you make better decisions and lead with more confidence?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Conversely, poorly managed transitions invite uncertainty that can erode employee morale, undermine client trust, and weaken competitive advantage. Effective planning mitigates the inherent risk of change, ensuring that corporate strategies are not derailed and that valuable institutional knowledge is preserved.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The ability to withstand disruptions, recover swiftly, and adapt to uncertainties is paramount in today’s volatile market. For instance, executives who have implemented flexible strategies can mitigate impacts on their organizations during supply chain disruptions.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Business Acumen Capacity is the skill of recognizing patterns, interpreting trends, and translating them into actionable strategies. Leaders with business acumen capacity thrive in ambiguity, leveraging their ability to discern critical patterns and make informed, timely decisions despite uncertainty.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . There’s no doubt uncertainty will flummox the timid or the unprepared. However real leaders understand uncertainty creates opportunity for deeper understanding and significant growth. Pushing the envelope is something all leaders must get comfortable with.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Strategies to set boundaries and protect your energy, allowing you to lead with clarity and focus. 00:41:08] – Surfing Through Life’s Uncertainties Using surfing as a metaphor, Simon explains that life will knock you off balance, but building resiliency is about getting back on the board.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Emerging leaders empower their teams to achieve operational excellence and drive innovation by continuously refining culture, tactics, and strategy. Maintaining a robust pipeline of capable future leaders is crucial for organizations aiming to thrive amid uncertainty and change.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Leading the long view takes place by engaging team members in creating co-ownership of the future-state vision and strategy that brings the vision to life. As I work with organizations preparing for the new year, one of the most common topics of discussion is what it takes to set a strategic course through times of uncertainty.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Nawazs potent, proven strategies guide you to anticipate the unavoidable hazards of leadership without changing who you are, based on over two decades of coaching and in-depth research into the psychology of behavior and relationships. Youre the Boss is your executive coach in book form.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2021

Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty? Leading Through Uncertainty. Once you’ve emotionally prepared yourself for the unknown, there are more leadership strategies you can use to empower your team, restore confidence, and achieve meaningful results. But you don’t. What if we reorganize… again?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

There is friction between globalization and regional autonomy, a conflict between the desire for sustainability and the lure of rapid development, ongoing political uncertainties, and the ever-increasing impact of digital technology. Corporations can navigate economic uncertainties and volatility through digital modeling.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

One emerging development is the role of the Chief Employee Experience Officer, a position that embodies the growing commitment to placing people at the core of corporate strategy. At N2Growth, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations prioritize the employee journey as a central tenet of sustainable success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 12, 2024

Embracing the Shift Towards Eco-Friendly Green Business Practices In today’s business environment, sustainability has become an essential component of corporate strategy. Incorporating sustainability into the core of the business strategy can help create a company culture that values the environment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Another challenge of confidential information is that it creates uncertainty. That uncertainty can erode your team’s morale and productivity if you don’t address it. The uncertainty created by their absence was unnerving and people naturally looked for answers. The antidote to uncertainty is clarity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This episode reveals how the principles of improv can help you embrace uncertainty and lead with confidence. Gain strategies to make faster, more effective decisionswithout feeling out of control. Learn how to shift from resistance to adaptability using the power of “Yes, and.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

6:05 – The anxiety of navigating through fog and uncertainty. 33:04 – What’s your strategy for staying afloat and ensuring you can keep moving? 6:05 – The anxiety of navigating through fog and uncertainty. 33:04 – What’s your strategy for staying afloat and ensuring you can keep moving?

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

A S WE finally start to see the light at the end of the tunnel of the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders are looking for ways to better anticipate future disruptions and prepare for uncertainty ahead. Scenarios provide longer-term, multiple futures based on unknown risks and uncertainties (e.g., the results of a U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Uncertainty can be something most of us do our best to avoid. Indeed, the considerable uncertainty caused by both the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine has widely been linked with a significant increase in stress. Research earlier this year from Cambridge University highlights how uncertainty can diminish our decision-making.

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CO2

JUNE 12, 2020

In the last few months, the world has been learning devastating lessons from uncertainty. The Cliff of Uncertainty. When we enter commit wholly to one go-to-market strategy as a company or as a society, the environment and, subsequently, the world inevitably has something to say.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This role extends beyond generating new ideas; it involves transforming these concepts into strategies to revolutionize the organization and spur its growth. This skill will enable them to foresee future trends, evaluate potential impacts, and craft strategies that address problems and spark positive change.

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Lead from Within

MAY 2, 2024

It’s not uncommon for leaders to face setbacks or periods of uncertainty, but it’s how they navigate these turbulent times that truly matters. Build resilience by developing coping strategies, seeking support from your network, and maintaining a positive mindset. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Executive Search Strategies for Social Impact Organizations Non-profit institutions occupy a uniquely important societal space, catalyzing social change and community advancement. Based on these insights, a targeted search strategy emerges, specifying the candidate profile and selection criteria.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

With GM layoffs in 2025 set to impact 1,695 workers, we try to understand the reasons behind the job cuts, who will feel the brunt of the axe, and how this fits into the automakers future strategy. For the 1,695 workers facing uncertainty, the GM layoffs in Kansas are more than a corporate strategy. Share them below.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Regular coaching sessions provide invaluable feedback and advice, allowing leaders to refine their strategies and enhance their approach for even greater success. By refining their decision-making skills, leaders can better navigate uncertainty and achieve more successful outcomes, ultimately driving stronger business performance.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here are five strategies for developing your executive presence and commanding respect: Develop your communication skills: Effective communication is essential for developing executive presence. So, you can inspire trust and belief in your ability to lead. Additionally, you should be open to new ideas and approaches.

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