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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

All of which are key factors in career satisfaction, talent retention, and employee engagement. Implementing a Succession Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide A successful succession plan requires a meticulous strategy, a structured process, and adept execution. Inadequate preparation can result in a rocky transition and a high risk of failure.

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9 Ways to Strengthen Your Personal Brand

Let's Grow Leaders

If there are 27 metrics on your balanced scorecard, trust me, they are not all created equal. Identify the key behaviors that will change the game, and focus yourself and your team on executing on those consistently. There’s nothing better you can do to enhance your brand than having a long track record of success. .

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Four Facets of Measuring Change

Change Starts Here

When I was an industrial engineer early in my career, one of my core responsibilities was measuring things. It’s no coincidence that my transition to change practitioner included balanced scorecards to measure strategy execution.

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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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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. Key Metric: the ratio of men and women (and nationalities) on the Executive Committee is the clearest indicator of a company's openness to 21st century realities. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

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With Change Agents, One Size Does Not Fit All

Harvard Business Review

Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business. Innovation managers execute improvements and simultaneously engage and develop people. Ever since, he has been very conscious of costs and comparisons of leaders and laggards. The Innovation Manager.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Second, line managers cant execute HR-related actions, like running interviews or performance appraisals, by nature. Im sick about it. I doubt it. This is how we conduct interviews. I doubt it.

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