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Diversity of a Different Persuasion

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Starbucks seemed to have realized this back in 2011 when they appointed then 29 year old Clara Shih to their Board of Directors. The reality they have grown up in is far more complex, global and faster paced than that of yesteryear. Insight into this can be very powerful.

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Leadership Interview – Marshall Goldsmith | N2Growth Blog

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Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete. The best example I can give you of how competitive things have become globally is that my daughter recently completed her PhD from an Ivy League school – out of 22 students she was the only one from the United States.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

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Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Which hat, or hats do you wear? Jack Welch the former head of GE built a reputation as one of the great chief executives of this era.

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E rnst & Young – Global Home One of the world’s leading professional services organizations, helps companies across the globe to… Deloitte & Touche Businesses face a common imperative: to create lasting value for their stakeholders. .&#

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

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Great CEOs possess the ability to refine their thinking and leadership skills to reflect the evolving needs of the enterprise and the changing global business climate. Stating that a CEO of a start-up should operate with the same term limit constraints of a CEO of a Fortune 500 company is very unrealistic and dangerous thinking.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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With the continued rapid development of technology taking the concept of globalization and turning it into hard reality facing businesses of all sizes, it is time for executives and entrepreneurs to examine their current business models from a disruptive perspective.

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Game Changers | N2Growth Blog

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To me, that highlights the importance of reading, watching, listening and generally paying attention to what’s happening, not only locally, but also globally. I think too that in order to be alert to those events that create the need or provide the invitation for change, a leader must be open to new information all of the time.

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