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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

Understanding the Importance of Succession Planning The importance of succession planning cannot be overstated in ensuring an organization’s longevity and growth. Succession planning begins with the process of identifying and developing new leaders within a business. This is of utmost importance and cannot be emphasized enough.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

Do you sometimes feel like your organization is flailing, barely able to keep up with the pace of change? And organizations need more individual leaders who can help everyone navigate through the new, speeded-up and volatile world. Innovation managers execute improvements and simultaneously engage and develop people.

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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. Diversity and Inclusion" efforts focus on making the various "out" groups comfortable by organizing them (or allowing them to organize themselves) into affinity groups or employee resource groups. This is nonsense.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them.

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The Big Picture of Business – Becoming a Legend

Strategy Driven

Have you celebrated organizations that succeeded? The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. 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.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole. Well need to enable cross-boundary judgment.