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2024 Executive Coaching Trends: Shaping Leadership Excellence

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we have conducted business remotely worldwide since our firm was founded in 2006, so we know what we’re talking about. Of course, in-person leadership development is still an option, too. Today’s leaders must be culturally savvy, understand international contexts, and manage diverse teams.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. I’ll take it one step further – I can’t really think of any issue that should be argued or decided solely on the merits of diversity. In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether.

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Appointing Female CEOs Can Cause White Men To Try Less

The Horizons Tracker

Organizations around the world have been striving to make their senior managerial positions more diverse and representative of both their workforce and their customer base. Firm diversity. The researchers analyzed the makeup of executive teams in 1,000 large and mid-sized American firms between 2006 and 2011.

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The Evolution of the Executive, C-Suite, and Boardroom

N2Growth Blog

Companies focused on diversity across many forms. Although, for a short period listing overseas was an option, in 2006 foreign companies listed on U.S. It, of course, doesn’t hurt to understand their governance requirements either. Start of the Dot.com era changed the way recruiting top talent was done.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

It has spread to pandemic proportions, crossing boarders and cultures, such that you’d be hard pressed to actually find someone under the age of 40 who hasn’t had substantial amounts of “diversity training&#. I'm troubled by the generic approach of "treating everyone the same." We end up ruled by the elite.

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In numerous studies , diversity — both inherent (e.g., For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits. In addition, people believe that diverse teams breed greater conflict than they actually do.

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Help – It's not a dirty Word! | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How many times during the course of your career have you witnessed executives and entrepreneurs who desperately need help, but either don’t recognize it, or worse yet, make it virtually impossible for someone to help them? The latter is both more profitable and enjoyable than the former.

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