Lead from Within

JANUARY 25, 2023

Navigating uncertainty as a CEO can be a challenging task. As a coach, I am busier now than ever before because leaders are searching for someone who has been through similar situations, someone who can look beyond the day-to-day operations, and help guide them through uncertain times. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

From managing strategic direction, evaluating group and company operations to communicating with various stakeholders – the daily schedule of a CEO can be relentless. So, if you’re a relatively new CEO or you’ve been at the helm for a while – how can you manage your time more effectively? Master Delegation.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Understanding the Concept of Succession Planning Succession planning is a critical aspect of organizational management. It is a proactive strategy that ensures an organization is ready to handle sudden or planned departures of critical workforce elements.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Part four will balance needs with compromises and float tangential opportunities to expand horizons and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘pink giraffe’ management candidate. The bar is set high.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. But once the CEO has been in place for a few years, this dynamic changes. You have to put the company ahead of each business.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 26, 2021

The first meeting was with a board member and the CEO to discuss details about the company’s situation. Armed with these insights, I developed a service proposal that described how we would work together in creating a strategic plan and implementing a strategic management process. Employees and their needs change.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. Effective leaders in this space have the ability to optimize supply chain operations, streamline processes, and identify cost-saving opportunities.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Many brands focus their marketing strategies on out-of-home consumption, socializing with friends and family, and humor to generate engagement. We see some of the best candidates coming from startups and thinking first about mobile technology, automated supply chain management, and data analytics. Agility is key. Why or why not?

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

It’s never too early to start thinking about your career, so we’ve put together a list of the best management careers in 2022. If you’re thinking of breaking into one of the best business management careers then we have some advice for you. What are the top management careers? Which one is the best?

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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. Bhushan Sethi CEOs PWC skills gap talent trust' It’s completely consequential.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 30, 2013

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Managers are expected to handle the workload; leaders are expected to determine what comes next.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Staying ahead of the curve and continuously adapting strategies to align with these shifts is a challenge that requires constant vigilance and agility. Another significant challenge for executives is managing organizational complexity. This is where the magic of high-impact performance coaching truly happens.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Strategy, Oh what a lofty word. The simple word “strategy” can be added to just about anything to make it sound more important or thought-out, strategic relationship building is still just going to a cocktail party or out to lunch with a potential client. Despite it’s overuse, strategy is still vitally important. High-minded.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? What does a CEO really do anyway? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

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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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.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

Now that almost every good or service combines digital and physical, leaders need to be able to manage and drive both digital and physical in a company.” -Rob We are bombarded with digital disruption strategy and yet we hear little about the traditional skills like customer service, quality control, and logistics. Rob Siegel.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JANUARY 22, 2012

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory. Many senior managers haven’t the foggiest idea how to do this.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. In contrast, other leaders focus so much on long-term strategies that they miss the opportunity to create competitive advantage by pulling the future forward.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The CEO is only one person. He or she can set the strategic direction, sign off on policies and plans, and encourage a professional and productive atmosphere, but significant change is implemented by managers and employees often far removed from the CEO’s corner office. Why couldn’t we conduct business as usual?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth examines the nuances that distinguish boutique search firms from their larger counterparts. I would caution that size is not always an indicator of success, and more importantly, not a risk mitigator,” said Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth, a Philadelphia-based management consulting and executive search firm. “A

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . While my personal practice is focused on providing leadership advice and counsel to Fortune 500 CEOs, as the senior operating executive at our firm I also have oversight responsibility for our talent management practice.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of directors, only to find themselves wondering what went wrong as they were being ushered out the door prior to the expiration of their employment agreement. As a CEO, your board can be one of your greatest allies.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 17, 2012

I’ve read a lot of books on strategy. The best ones influenced my mode of operation as an executive of Jacobs Suchard , the maker of coffee and chocolate brands, Jacobs , Nabob , Toblerone , Suchard and Côte d’Or. They set their sights on another perfectly good strategy – the strategy of hustle. No big deal.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 28, 2014

Strategy is no longer a once-a-year process that creates a five-year plan to be placed in a three-ring binder and put on the shelf. The process of building strategies often becomes permanently mired in the endless requirements of daily business operations. In " BUSINESS STRATEGY " author Patrick J. Related articles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

1) Focus on Learning and Listening Prior to starting a new role, read as much as you can, for as far back as you can about the business, strategy, plans, performance, people, opportunities, and challenges. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. Be cautious about change fatigue.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. In his career as an executive at IBM, Cisco, and now as CEO of Anaplan, Frank A.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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? But, what about agency, or intentionality, or what today we generally call strategy?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Maintenance supervisors, managers, and directors continually strive to refine processes, ensuring that production lines run smoothly. Digital Transformation and the Power of the Mobile Work Order Gone are the days when maintenance operations relied solely on heaps of paper, manual logs, and face-to-face communications.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

A recent conversation with a community bank CEO focused on his vision for the company. Logic tells us we can manage cause, but only measure effect. Leading by Cause is an approach that says – use results to understand activities, effectiveness, and efficiency in context of the organization’s vision and strategy.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 2, 2013

Leaders in any organization and at all levels are held to high standards and judged by their performance in important areas impacting the business: sales, operations, marketing, efficiency, and development of their people, to name a few. Leaders, get more tips and resources in our CEO Resource Center. David Grossman. Click to visit:

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

According to The Conference Board, CEO tenure has decreased to an average of 8.4 It is clear once again that planned CEO succession is necessary. CEO Profiles Crisis Management Operations & Strategy Success CEO Onboarding CEO Succession Planning Dell Computers Dell Computers CEO Micahel Dell Offboarding Succession Planning'

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

frameworks that help make thoughtful decisions about starting, growing, managing, and selling a business. Strategy First : How Businesses Win Big by Brad Chase. The author will inspire readers to examine the effectiveness of their current strategies, using the model that has served him in his distinguished career.

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