N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Mike has served as an advisor to hundreds of Fortune 500 CEOs since launching N2Growth in 2005, and the company has grown into a global consultancy firm with 40 locations spanning five continents. We are known for our executive coaching practice.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 22, 2012

In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. T he former executive gave names, dates and bribe amounts. But some executives saw Mexico as a country where bribery was embedded in the business culture.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 23, 2011

Just six months later, eBay went public with its initial public offering, and by 2005, eBay was on fire with nothing stopping it. New competitors have joined the online auction marketplace and a poor business decision related to eBay’s acquisition of Skype created some bumps in the road of eBay’s success.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. I volunteered to be the “lucky&# laid off executive and have never looked back. It was time to let go of the illusion of control that the “big bucks&# created. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock! Synchronicity is such a blessing!

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2014

General Electric’s corporate business development group (about a dozen professionals) is bigger than the entire executive team in many midsized companies. When Lyndon Faulkner joined as CEO in 2005, he felt the then-$80 million firm had to make acquisitions to grow. It has since doubled revenue to $26 million.

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