N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Crafting a succession plan signals an investment in the future, a proactive step to shape the company’s leadership in accordance with its vision, mission, and strategic goals. All of which are key factors in career satisfaction, talent retention, and employee engagement.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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. For most organizations, the end goal of change will be either financial or customer/mission-driven.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

My goal was clean and tidy, not immaculate—a mindset Mom didn’t understand. Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Mom took great pride in her reputation as an excellent housekeeper.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. However, recognition programs are a balanced scorecard that involves the scrutiny of the company and its leaders by credible outside sources. Good people aspire to higher goals. Understands that careers evolve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

I’ve begun to view this as the ability to hold two specific traits in balance: consistency and agility. They set goals for themselves and their employees and they achieve them. Do you thrive in situations of chaos and rapid change or in periods that require relentless pursuit of a clearly defined goal?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

They articulate the organization’s reason for being, and create goals and measures that support this rationale. Earlier in his career he worked at EDS (an IT services provider), where he learned how to run IT as a business. They inspire by communicating an aspirational purpose that grabs people and taps into their emotions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. They somehow can't live up to a rather normal human goal of being able to both earn a living and procreate, which is recast as some kind of ridiculously utopian myth of "having it all." See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard.

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