N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

They’re often thrust into salient leadership roles at top organizations across the country— from non-profits to government agencies to entrepreneurial startups to Fortune 500 companies. Legal training focuses on all of the things that could go wrong. Some of the best CEOs chose law school over traditional MBAs. Fair enough.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. times more likely to trust their leaders. “Our

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 12, 2021

The study found that when female or racial minority CEOs were appointed, it seemed to make white male executives associate with their company less than before. Also, white males’ biases may make them feel that racial minority and female CEOs give them less respect in strategic decision-making processes,” the researchers explain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 5, 2014

Guest post from Bhushan Sethi: Most US CEOs say technological advances will transform their businesses within the next five years. After surveying 1,344 CEOs in 68 countries, we found that 70% of US CEOs are concerned about the skills gap. A number of companies are offering MBA programs at night inside their own buildings.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

For the last 20 years, and all around the world, we CEOs have invested untold millions into the question: “What does it take to have an engaged workplace culture?” They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2016

The leading futurist in this field concluded his recommendations by saying, “I believe that every CEO should be assigned a therapist when they take the job.”. In fact, the opposite may happen: the CEO could be the roadblock to the whole transformative process. I’ve often wondered if that company survived and still thrives today.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 15, 2014

The Planet Jockey Game is based on actual situations and dilemmas drawn from the experience of real CEOs and other senior leaders of Fortune 500 companies. The post GC26: Online Leadership Training Game | with Kevin Allen from Planet Jockey appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2023

Years ago, we engaged with a CEO in the mattress industry who wanted to know how he could create real brand distinction and drive more retail traffic in such a highly commoditized category. The answer to our new client’s dilemma lay hidden in his company’s extraordinary commitment to sales process and training. 10, 2020).

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Partner with cultural anthropologists to analyze company rituals, communication styles, and decision-making processes. The CEO sets the tone , championing the mission with unwavering commitment. Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 11, 2024

Today’s guest post is b y Paul Bramson, CEO — The Paul Bramson Companies In the modern hiring processes, the evaluation of candidate integrity stands as a cornerstone, often determining an organization’s long-term success and cultural health.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2023

When a junior employee makes a mistake, it's a learning opportunity; when a CEO or a prominent executive errs, it's front-page news. Case Study: Sarah, The Scrutinized CEO Sarah had always been a high-performing individual. She worked her way up to become the CEO of a mid-sized tech company.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

MARCH 25, 2024

Today’s guest post is b y Eshed Doni , CEO & Founder — GiftCrowd Employees are the backbone of your organization. A recently updated report from Gallup reveals that when companies prioritize employee recognition, they experience significantly decreased turnover and increased employee engagement.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

I recently read “ Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg ” by Ekaterina Walter (I received an advance copy). Though Facebook doesn’t have a visual culture map, the “hacker” culture within the company is very well defined and understood by all.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Let’s dive into how to use this process to set your people and company up for success. Executive onboarding is the process that supports your new executive as they transition into a position with your company, and it goes far beyond simply providing them with an orientation and welcoming them to the team. What Is Executive Onboarding?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Read more at Fast Company. Also please know that CEO Reads is offering a nice discount for quantity orders. Please contact me at karin.hurt@letsgrowleaders.com if you would be interested in a keynote, workshop, or virtual training. That means being vigilant about avoiding these statements or anything that sounds like them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

What we’re noticing about leadership, teams, and company culture. I love to reflect on what we’re seeing in our work with clients and within our own company at Let’s Grow Leaders. We’re seeing more offsites, leadership training kickoffs, executive leadership workshops, and team innovation events.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Barney and Carlos Julio Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company’s culture fail. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor? These actions inspired stories that became company legends, repeated in every department and handed on to new employees.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The world of work has changed dramatically in the last eighteen months, and as we head into a new year, there will be many companies who are looking to bring their employees back to the office or at least look for ways to improve their working culture. Why Is Company Culture Important? So what is company culture?

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This is an awesome training experience all business people should attend: 3-Day Boot Camp Event. You’ll get key takeaways that will assist you in cultivating your own company culture, get all of your questions answered, and have a lot of fun while doing it. via 3 Day Culture Boot Camp – Training – Zappos Insights.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I had just come off my first CEO assignment with Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” When I joined the company, it was late delivering the hardware/software card to the partner.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders. This encompasses outlining expectations, forging clear communication channels, and providing perennial support and training. How can ethical and transparent board practices be ensured?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart. The underlying gift is where the magic and true value are.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

I recently read a book by John Wilson - Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives. Part of it is having a great vision for the company. I believe the job of a good leader to to make people into A players by process, systems, training, mentoring, inspiring and slotting people in the right job for them.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

I recently read a book by John Wilson - Great CEOs and How They are Made - The 7 Imperatives. Part of it is having a great vision for the company. I believe the job of a good leader to to make people into A players by process, systems, training, mentoring, inspiring and slotting people in the right job for them.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

And if you’re not proactively building and shaping your company culture, it’s being created unintentionally. What is Company Culture? Your company culture is the natural, normal way that employees respond to emergent opportunities and challenges. In addition, company culture includes: Predictable employee behavior patterns.

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HR Digest

APRIL 2, 2022

Deloitte has recently coined the concept of a ‘health-savvy CEO,’ a concept that focuses on how the modern-day CEO needs to have a heightened focus on the health and wellness of the employees. . CEOs today have to bear additional responsibilities to support the well-being of the employees and their work communities.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Within the organization, new courses charted by the CEO or Board may have broad implications for effective procurement, and leadership needs to be prepared to respond agilely. Developing a comprehensive search strategy is essential in ensuring that companies can procure the right individuals to lead their supply chain functions.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

Whether they are looking within their own team, the broader organization, or outside the company, a good leader always has a notion of who will be sitting in their chair next. They might have a life event that leads them to leave the company. Again, I was responsible for training someone to replace me at a moment’s notice.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I started at the tech company Rackspace when I was twenty years old. I had trained countless people and served our customers well. And in one terrible instant, it felt like none of that mattered, and the CEO was ready to have security unceremoniously walk me out of the […]. I was thirty when I resigned.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Keegan , CEO, Merchants Fleet One thing all great leaders have in common is that they understand that transformational growth doesn’t happen without a willingness to change. When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. He is a highly valued and trusted thought partner to CEO Bruce Broussar d. Many things actually.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

In 2006, one of my CEO clients in Sarasota, FL shared with me his annual employee engagement survey. Why should the 8-year old, first generation, 88-person software development company in San Diego expect to have the same desired culture as the 48-year old, 3rd generation, 268-person manufacturing company in Rochester, NY?

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2024

Inspiration from books and workshops gains profound meaning when teams discuss applying these insights to company challenges. They understand how to translate the CEO’s goals into a comprehensive learning and development program.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Monday, November 15, 2010 Early Exits Angel investors and VCs all like to sell one of their portfolio companies. And he has succeeded in a very tough industry in growing a $100M+ company. Lots of training. EG Smart Move 26 - Discover the Benefits of Long-Term Training Programs.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Let’s say you are the company commander for an Army helicopter unit, a manager for a small organization, or the CEO for a large corporation, and you notice that the floor in the common area, break room, or conference room has continued to remain dirty for several days now. Hang with me this will get better, I promise.

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