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Executive Search Firms in Finance: Unlocking Fiscal Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Role of Executive Search Firms in the Finance Industry Executive search firms play a crucial role in the ever-evolving landscape of the finance industry. One of the key responsibilities of executive search firms is to thoroughly understand the specific needs and requirements of their finance industry clients as related to the role.

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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

Eight years ago I published a book, The Medici Effect , that examines how and why groundbreaking ideas occur at the intersection of different cultures, industries, and disciplines. Ask for the keys to career success and you'll get logical explanations, recommendations, pathways and approaches. Yahoo declined (as did others).

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Design Can Drive Exceptional Returns for Shareholders

Harvard Business Review

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. This ultimately pushes their stock prices higher than their industry peers. In our version, we sought to identify only companies that are design leaders.

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How to Get People to Collaborate When You Don’t Control Their Salary

Harvard Business Review

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder.

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Loose Ties Are Abundant, but Risky, at the Top

Harvard Business Review

Global leaders pride themselves on having many connections across industries and sectors. Take Jim Owens, one of our interview subjects, who spent his entire career with Illinois-based Caterpillar. When pressed, Owens tried to hedge his answer, but the media portrayed him as calling the President a liar.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

military operations in Vietnam. Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. From the 1990s onwards, Nokia dominated the mobile phone industry. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past? You remember how huge Nokia was.

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Every Leader Needs a Challenger in Chief

Harvard Business Review

military operations in Vietnam. Former employees of the now defunct Lehman Brothers have talked about how voicing dissent there was considered a career-breaker. From the 1990s onwards, Nokia dominated the mobile phone industry. And how about our propensity to become overly attached to the past? You remember how huge Nokia was.