Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Without the organic conversations that occur in physical office spaces, employees can feel isolated and new hires may struggle to assimilate into the company’s ethos. In attempting to bridge this gap, Google, for example, has invested in virtual reality technology to create more immersive and interactive remote meetings.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Digital leadership is not limited to technology-driven companies; businesses across industries recognize the need for influential digital leaders to stay competitive in the market.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. The company has changed strategic course.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Upstanding : How Company Character Catalyzes Loyalty, Agility, and Hypergrowth by Frank A. Calderoni discovered that character is just as vital for companies as it is for individuals. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an executive coaching professional who works with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of coaching in shaping effective leaders. Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Homkes’ book is a timely, comprehensive, and essential read for business leaders looking to take the next step toward ensuring high growth for their companies. The book brings together more than 15 years of Homkes working directly with high-growth companies of all sizes and across a wide variety of industries.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Let’s look at three real-world examples: 1. Growth Leaders – The CEO of a multi-billion dollar industrial products company boldly sets an ambitious growth goal of growing revenue by 40% over a three-year period. It’s building a cadre of leaders who can grow the company at a rapid clip. What’s the hard part?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2024

Digital platforms and tools such as applicant tracking systems, AI-driven assessments, and online job portals have revolutionized the way companies source and assess candidates. One effective way to enhance your employer brand is through strategic partnerships with HR consultancy companies.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2019

In order to adapt to a climate charged by automation, market shifts, and globalization, companies need to evolve to meet changing priorities and conditions. It’s the essence of agility. Why Agility is Important for Your Business. Agility allows your company to: Empower employees.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

Yet many times, companies struggle with sharing and aligning functional plans. Doing so ensures that what they’re doing as an entire team will enable the achievement of the company’s overall business objectives — which often represents the difference between success and failure. Doing so creates agility.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

An automobile company might have bought a supplier of its batteries, or created its own dealerships. For example, organizations use some services on contract — legal services, for example. In construction companies, for example, this would seem to be the capacity to secure contracts and choose the right subcontractors.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

Tool #5 - Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy This week, let’s understand how companies position themselves in the marketplace to succeed - The Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy. Summary: Strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making the competition irrelevant.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

The new book, Becoming Agile: How the SEAM Approach to Management Builds Adaptability illustrates the process of becoming an agile organization. Smart companies understand the importance of agility, but identifying where and how to initiate those first steps often leads to paralysis by analysis.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

Case Study 1 One example is an organization disrupting the sector with a Patient Engagement Platform. The bootstrapped company serves individual health providers and SMBs that face significant challenges in this rapidly evolving industry.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

This position is often seen as the linchpin of a company’s commercial strategy, controlling marketing, sales, and customer service efforts to achieve optimal success. This role requires an intrinsic understanding of the company’s product or service and customer base.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

For example, a manager once hired me to speak to their organization about the work-life balance themes in Growing the Distance. Hidebound management teams stuck in traditional methods of internal focus, functional accountability, and empowerment want to build fast, flexible, and agile organizations. That Sunday was Mother’s Day.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. Some companies have been successful in pivoting quickly, while others have found it more challenging. Take the Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud as an example. As in: Why this initiative?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Agile methodology has taken the IT industry by the storm, and now it’s spreading to other sectors. Many companies have managed to gain an edge tapping into its transformative power. Scaling Agile in enterprise-level environments is a daunting task. As soon as Agile transcends a one-team environment, complex challenges arise.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Diversification is not a trend; it is essential for companies to become and remain competitive. With technology reshaping the global business landscape, many companies will be pushed to fundamentally reconsider their ways of doing international business, diversifying into new product categories and adopting a “borderless” expansion model.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Holacracy revolutionizes how a company is structured, how decisions are made, and how authority is distributed. Perhaps the best-known examples of companies who have adopted Holacracy are Zappos and David Allen Company. “No Holacracy is a fundamentally different “operating system” for organizations.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

But here are several that I found interesting my first time through the book: Steve Blank: Startups Are Not a Smaller Version of a Large Company. The corollary for an enterprise is as follows: A company is a permanent organization designed to execute a repeatable and scalable business model. Think of it as a two-sided coin.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

While that is the primary focus, what I found extremely interesting about The Lean Startup was the number of action items that work equally well for established companies as they do for startups. Build an “innovation factory:” I cannot over emphasize this point: the Lean Startup method works for all companies.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 7, 2019

T ACKLING THE BIG CHALLENGES when there is no single, simple, rational answer can rarely be done by a single individual or company working alone. We need an agile approach that leverages all of the cognitive diversity available to us. It’s a rigid approach to strategic planning. In a networked world, the question becomes. “

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

To Foster Better Collaboration in a Matrix Organization Keep the Conversation Flowing When we ask senior leaders of our global clients about the biggest source of conflict and frustration in their companies, the answer is almost always the same. You find matrixed teams most often in tech companies and large global companies.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Board Chair Coaching: A Catalyst for Organizational Growth As a firm that works with top executives in some of the world’s largest companies, we have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of board chair coaching in driving organizational growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Another CEO colleague told me that his company had a wonderful culture described in detail in his company presentation. A subsequent HR benefits survey across 1500 employees included questions about the company culture. I never learned his reaction to the survey, but the company stock eventually went from $95 to $2.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

Leading through Disruption : A Changemaker’s Guide to Twenty-First Century Leadership by Andrew Liveris In Leading Through Disruption , Andrew Liveris provides a new leadership paradigm for resilience and agility in a rapidly changing world. But during his tenure at Argonon he has had to deal with a variety of existential crises.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

In addition, when team members are unhappy with management, they are far more likely to leave a company. For example, promoting honesty, support and communication in your organization is essential. Embrace Agile Principles. In fact, the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize agile principles in their day-to-day operations.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 24, 2020

Staying flexible and agile. When a leader is flexible and willing to consider other perspectives and opinions, they show the kind of mental agility that creates a culture of learning and growth. The most successful companies celebrate agility and diversity, because they’re the source of the best ideas and innovation.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2023

In today’s rapidly changing job market , companies are struggling to find the right words to describe new and emerging roles, leading to the invention of creative job titles. One of the most conspicuous examples is the term “growth hacker.” Agile Teams – A New Approach. Remote Work – A New Norm.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 29, 2020

This viewpoint is shared by most of the senior executives in the UK, 70% of which have recently claimed that innovation will be one of the top three growth drivers for their companies over the course of the next five years. How Can Leaders Successfully Innovate in Their Companies.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

As an example, I have a client who leads a cancer charity. Her situation demands better strategic thinking, more creativity and innovation, and greater agility and responsiveness. As an example, a millennial I coach and mentor monthly has identified clear goals for the year, which we focus upon. My personal concern.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Curiosity for Agility. You will need this to allow for optimal agility and to fully leverage the collective capability of employees throughout the organisation. A McKinsey article published in April 2018, for example says that AI ‘creates space and time to think by filtering the signal from the noise’. Communicating Vision.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Armed with this knowledge, they meticulously search for candidates with the necessary technical skills and experience that align with the company’s culture and long-term vision. It involves evaluating their attitudes, values, and behaviors to ensure they harmonize with the company’s vision and mission.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

“Agile organizations treat disruption and adversity as opportunities.” In this environment of constant change, I often hear that we should be agile. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change. Leo Tilman is the founder of Tilman & Company, Inc. Navigate through Change.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Smart Growth : How to Grow Your People to Grow Your Company by Whitney Johnson (Harvard Business Review Press, 2022) Growth is the goal. Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Blog Post ). A New Way to Think : Your Guide to Superior Management Effectiveness by Roger L.

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