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Target’s Fall Guy: Is Your Board Prepared?

N2Growth Blog

In 2008, thieves simultaneously hit more than 2,100 ATMs across the globe and within 12 hours stole more than $9 million in cash. What if the board does not have technology expertise? Or if their technology expertise is antiquated? Someone who understands enterprise technology systems and has managed decisions relating to them.

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13 Things that Make Organizations Extraordinary

Mark Sanborn

Adaptability and Agility The 2008 financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have tested organizations’ resilience. Innovation isn’t just the breakthrough concepts which often sets the course for extraordinary companies, but ongoing innovations small and large. Few organizations need more communication.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? Those might turn out to be concrete and manageable.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Many good people in the organization choose the latter course, and both morale and productivity tend to spiral downward. The only alternatives are to "grin and bear it"–doing one's best to make sure her/his part of the organization acts on right principles–or leaving as soon as possible.

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5 Important Things to Remember as an Entrepreneur :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Ask the people in your network to keep you in mind or refer you when they come across business opportunity within your specialty; and of course do the same for them. Many aspects were discussed that revolved around entrepreneurship and small business ownership. Use networks strategically…ask for favors! Do not keep count of favors.

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Humility and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Of course his well-honed empathic sense also enabled him to read the situation and determine was was called for. Lincoln suffered so many setbacks and defeats over the course of his life that humility, empathy and forgiveness became instinctual to him. Of course not everyone who appears quietly confident has humility.

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