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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. A carefully designed mechanism to maintain a steady stream of capable leaders at various levels within an organization.

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

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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. Have you been disrupted recently? You are not alone.

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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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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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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Eventually, most collapse. Eventually, most collapse.

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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.