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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Great leaders are strategic thinkers who have the ability to translate their vision into an actionable strategy to insure its success. Want to find out? Section X: Results.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. My final suggestion is that you take the time to review all mission critical plans to insure that the proper contingency plans have been put into place.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The only thing that spinning a bunch of plates insures is that you expend lots of energy in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. Sound-off in the comments below… Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] mikemyatt Your most welcome Sai…I'm glad the information was of benefit. link] Sai Bharadwaj Came at a right time for me.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” To be clear, being balanced doesn't mean that you're not committed, not sold-out, not passionate – it just means you apply filters to your efforts to insure that passions are productive and healthy; not imbalanced.

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Female Entrepreneurs Go Beyond "Cookies and Crafts"

Harvard Business Review

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Today, the greatest number of multimillion-dollar women-owned businesses are in wholesale trade (20%), finance/insurance (12%), and transportation/warehousing (11%). In 1977, only 4.5% of privately held businesses were owned by women.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle. That shift has created an increasingly commoditized product and service environment.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? Financial performance.