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Moving Beyond Company Organization Silos: Lessons from the Aviation Industry

Leading Blog

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. In the U.S., Recall how the U.S.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. Both are high-volume capital intense process industries. . Certain functional leadership positions, and industry sectors, can be less strident on this question.

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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

The Impact of Automation on Top-Level Positions As automation has permeated industry, its influence on the corporate hierarchy, particularly top-level executives, has been a key factor when considering the profile of future leaders. In essence, the digital transformation of a company starts at the top, with the CEO leading the charge.

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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. Doesn’t much of a CEO’s job consist of being on the receiving end of ever-increasing floods of data that can now be gleaned in real time from inputs around the globe? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. So, are CEOs really necessary anymore?

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

It’s no surprise that just 12% of CEOs are from working-class backgrounds. Research from the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich reminds us that it isn’t always like this, however, and that people from working-class backgrounds can ascend the greasy pole in certain industries.

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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

They take a proactive approach, anticipating future industry changes and identifying opportunities for growth and improvement. 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.

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Should CEOs Have Term Limits? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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