N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

The 2024 talent landscape is predicted to feature a more established remote and hybrid working culture, increasing technology integration, and an expanded emphasis on employee well-being. Historically, financial leadership trumped people leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Organizations often voice lofty ideals as a part of their branding efforts, but tangible progress comes when concrete measures are followed. This nurtures overall employee engagement and paves the way for innovation, creativity, and shared vision toward company goals. It is filled with challenges, negotiations, and sacrifices.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 17, 2020

A major downside of living in a tech-centric society like ours is that many of us now use a technology-first lens to view the world around us. If you compare leading mobile phone brands based on their actual technical specifications, you’ll find that from a speed, memory, and graphics perspective, many brands are incredibly similar.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Finding innovators in the life sciences industry The importance of innovative leadership cannot be overstated. They are relentless in pursuing cutting-edge research and innovative applications and have a keen understanding of emerging issues, trends, and technologies on the horizon.

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Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

Technology is the raw material that 21st-century innovators need to build new business capabilities, to develop exciting new products and services, and to create workarounds for the physical distancing measures we will likely endure for the foreseeable future. In a world of pandemic, it’s the only way forward.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team. This leadership should be committed to the organization’s vision, mission, and core values. Google’s leadership ardently focuses on sustaining a culture of innovation, collaboration, and transparency.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Find a strong and well positioned employer brand.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 27, 2014

In the 21st century, the businesses and leaders that succeed are a difficult mix of creativity and flexibility on the one hand, and long-burning value on the other hand. The post 082: Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability | with Faisal Hoque appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Playbooks Sharpen Your Leadership Skills - learn up-to-date leadership techniques to better manage your team, your peers, and your boss. A quick read to motivate the creative energies within you! My job is to help YOU cut through the noise and find resources that are worth consuming AND energize your spirit.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Internal recruiters do not have the tools or abilities to fill these critical leadership roles, their ‘open requisition’ stack is too full, and all roles get equal attention, whereas the most critical ones need a dedicated team. Plethora of Choices. Earlier, Ms.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

The preceding description paints the perfect illustration of why branding is one of my favorite topics…It is complex. Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

My son Brad’s girlfriend Renee is a brand new first grade teacher this year. Thanks to virtual work and meeting technology, we learned that a lot of the content work we never thought we could do remotely we could actually do better that way. That’s where leadership lesson plans come in.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It’s vital to create space in each day to let your thoughts wander beyond your immediate job responsibilities, to turn things over in your mind in a less pressured, more creative way than is possible once the daily triage kicks in. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2012

Why is creativity so important in business? This month’s Fast Company names the 100 Most Creative People in Business, with an emphasis on global leaders in technology, design, media, music, movies, marketing, television and sports. 84 Elvis Chau – Creative Director, JWT Shanghai. 2 Rebecca Van Dyck – CMO Facebook. “If

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Using “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building, this week we’ll discuss steps three and four: developing brand identification and meaning, and developing relationships with customers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

At the peak, Alibaba’s technology platforms processed 325,000 orders and 256,000 payments every second. Singles Day is a technological marvel. The technology and business model Ming Zeng, the chairman of the Academic Council of the Alibaba Group, describes in Smart Business: What Alibaba’s Success Reveals About the Future of Strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Nondisruptive creation has three distinctive characteristics : First : It can be generated by a scientific invention or a technology-driven innovation. But it can also be generated without science or technology-drive innovation. In contrast to ‘creative disruption,’ (i.e.,

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Let’s use “Buddy the Elf” as an example for the four steps to brand building. What does your brand stand for? Does it fill a need?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2022

The following basic skills can be developed to enhance entrepreneurial businesses’ creative and innovative aspects. Teamwork/leadership. One of the top skills required by all those starting a business is leadership and teamwork. Technology. Business management. Communication and customer service. Time management.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 28, 2021

An explosion of game-changing new technologies, data and cultural shifts will render traditional marketing frameworks and strategies ineffective, and turn the function upside down.” Reach all five human senses, with Multi-Sensory Marketing and Sonic Branding. Quantify impact with data, but never at the expense of creativity.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? They are all killer personal brand examples. While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An explosion of game-changing new technologies, data and cultural shifts will render traditional marketing frameworks and strategies ineffective, and turn the function upside down.” Reach all five human senses, with Multi-Sensory Marketing and Sonic Branding. Quantify impact with data, but never at the expense of creativity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

O NCE AGAIN we see that despite our rhetoric, what we are is reflected in our leaders and leadership. As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. A deep life is a good life.” ( Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. Leadership requires attention to detail and a commitment to quality, but rarely does it require perfection. While leadership doesn’t require being perfect, it does require doing what is needed and necessary.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 29, 2013

The best brand custodians know that you never promise a smorgasbord of benefits; trying to be all things to all people is a recipe for disaster. For the sake of brevity, I’ll list just five similarities between HR and brand marketing. Within every successful brand is a core promise. Every brand has a personality.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Today, they have to compete with Google, Tesla and Uber which are technology companies. Brands like Kodak and Nokia that were almost synonymous with their products are disrupted. Disruptions in mobile technology and convergence has resulted in a hyper-connected world where things become radically transparent.

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The Empowered Buisness

AUGUST 18, 2015

However, for many organizations, over-emphasis on accountability stifles creative thinking, innovation and visioning. As we mature as adults, we lose that creative spark. Possibility questions are critical in your leadership role because they break through the boundary conditions of your (or some else’s) thinking.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Guest Bob Kelleher is an award winning speaker and author on employee engagement, workforce trends, and leadership. In this episode, Jesse and Bob discuss the shift from traditional leadership to creativeship and how you can think differently to continue to add value to your organization both personally and professionally. Engagement.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

When I first posed this question to a group of women executives who have joined to attend our “ WELL: Women Executive Leadership Learning ” program in March, they stayed traditional, talking about what they thought the men in the dark suits would find of interest. Bold Leadership There are so many words to describe leadership and almost.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2018

N EW TECHNOLOGIES are shifting the way we work and interact. Jobs are being eliminated, and industries are being disrupted as we try to come to grips with how this technology is changing us and how we can use it. Create a signature story—a story unique to you and your brand. And if you are reading this, that’s your advantage.

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