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

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. 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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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Developing an internal culture fosters dedicated leadership that is aligned with the organization’s mission and operations.

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The Leaders Our Companies Need: Lessons We Can Learn from Historical Luminaries

Leading Blog

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Roosevelt’s energy and his manner of speaking had a certain charisma that Hoover’s lacked. Learning how to be good leaders doesn’t involve formulas or abstractions.

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5 Leadership Development Practices to Kick to the Curb

Leading Blog

Effective leadership does not rely upon a standard set of characteristics like charisma or aggressiveness. Narrowly defining leadership restricts innovation by excluding countless points of view and modes of operating. Our company has decided to leave performance evaluations in the past where they belong.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Soft Skills

N2Growth Blog

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. This instance focuses on a handful of core demands specific to portfolio companies, aligned to soft skill talents. The Soft Skills.

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No Brilliant Jerks: How to Deal with Maverick CEOs

Leading Blog

But these days a maverick CEO is often at the center of board and executive consternation and investors’ claims that leadership failed to protect the company. Travis Kalanick 's brash operating style and the toxic working environment he created led him to be tossed out of the company. Mind the gaps.

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Laying Groundwork: How Do Leaders Create Positive Company Culture?

CO2

You may have a comprehensive rule book, a checklist, and an operating manual, but without the right positive corporate cultural attributes, those concrete instructions and processes will not work. There are so many different ways that leaders can build creating a positive company culture. How do leaders build effective cultures?