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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

Unforeseen departures in key leadership roles can disrupt a company’s ecosystem, the shockwaves of which can be detrimental, even catastrophic if there is no blueprint to follow. All of which are key factors in career satisfaction, talent retention, and employee engagement.

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How To Lead With Guts (and Have Their Backs)

Let's Grow Leaders

They want to know they matter–to you–not just to the company. It became harder to talk about balanced scorecards. Don’t go along and destroy the vision or someone’s career to protect your own. Be THAT guy and your career will follow. Of course you would, but do they know it? Every time.

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The Big Picture of Business – Becoming a Legend

Strategy Driven

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Understands that careers evolve.

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Navigating the Emotional Side of a Career Transition

Harvard Business Review

Let me begin this post with a personal confession: Although I’ve talked with many managers about career transitions over the years, I’ve never had a career transition myself until now. Staying with one firm for an entire career is unusual amid today’s serial job progressions and longer life spans.

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The Best Strategic Leaders Balance Agility and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

Markets demand that companies and people adapt and change constantly. By one analysis , 88% of companies appearing on the Fortune 500 list in 1955 were not on it in 2014 (having merged, gone bankrupt, or fallen off the list). As we know, buggy whip makers and telegraph companies must evolve or die. Are you doing so today?

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Second, management matters.

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Work-Family Guilt Is Wasted Energy

Harvard Business Review

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. I call them the three C's: countries, companies and couples. Companies — Corporate Culture & Policies. Today, most companies are still far from any level of balance at this level. This is nonsense.

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