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Academia and Executive Search: Navigating the Academic Leadership Landscape

N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

By fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, academic leaders create a dynamic learning environment that prepares students for the ever-changing demands of the modern world. They are accountable for devising and executing policies advocating academic honesty, inclusivity , and innovation.

Execution

Execution Leadership Education Long-term

Nonprofit vs. For-profit Executive Search: What’s the Difference?

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Navigating the Challenges of Limited Resources in Nonprofit Executive Search Navigating the challenges of limited resources in nonprofit executive search requires a strategic and innovative approach. Actively participating in conferences, seminars, and workshops allows you to connect with thought leaders and experts in the field.

Execution

Execution Diversity Long-term Metrics

CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Exchanging ideas in the flagship Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 The Women In Engineering (WIE) International Leadership Conference 2021 was sponsored by CMI – and was a huge success. Event details here.

Webinar

Webinar Education Conference Industry

Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

To achieve that goal, however, we must innovate not only in terms of science and R&D, but also in how we run our business. “We cannot be like Google, but neither do we want to be,” says Kemal Malik, the board member responsible for innovation, “We need to plot our own path.” The innovation agenda.

Innovation

Innovation Company Agility Workshop

The Making of Legends

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I served on boards of directors, search committees, awards panels, review boards and task forces for many. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies.

Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing

For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

Some are actual housework — getting the coffee for the morning stand-up, or cleaning up after a lunch meeting — and some are the unsung operational or administrative work that keeps the company rolling along. It might also be a juicy-sounding assignment like chairing a diversity or company culture committee. ”).

Management

Management Committee Diversity Survey

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. PL and CM: Our take on capabilities and how they work in systems is new, as is our view of coherence as this three-part balanced system that confers a measurable premium. Companies today operate in a business environment that encourages incoherence.

Resources

Resources Industry System Strategy

Design Offices to Be More Like Neighborhoods

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

The “conventional” workspace (drop ceilings, monochromatic cubicles and all) is being phased out in favor of connected spaces that encourage innovation and demand collaboration while still prizing individuality. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations. Find your feng shui.

Conference

Conference CRM Creativity Committee

Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

Press Release

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising

Gender in the Multicultural Corporation

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

When Paul Bulcke was appointed CEO of global food giant Nestle in 2008, he put the issue of women and gender at the top of his Executive Committee's agenda. Nestle is not yet a leader in gender balancing, but they are an innovator. Until his appointment, Nestle had done very little on the topic.

Leadership Pipeline

Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization

Case Study: When to Drop an Unprofitable Customer

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

But he could not shake his newfound awareness of the amount of money Egan was losing with Westmid — the account's ratio of operating income to sales was a negative 28%. With three efficient plants staffed by 3,000 employees, it had reinvented itself to become an innovative manufacturer of modular steel staircases and fiberglass doors.

Case Study

Case Study P&L Cost Due Diligence

Three Diversity "Best Practices" That Hurt Women

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Is having 80% women in HR and support functions and 80% of men in operational roles what you are after? Our annual Global Gender balance Scorecard shows that 63% of the women sitting on Executive Committees of the top 100 US companies are in support functions, not P&L roles. This isn't balance, it's just Mad Men, repainted.

Diversity

Diversity Balanced Scorecard P&L Committee

Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. But from the average consumer’s point of view, it can be hard to see Sears’ competitive advantage right now.

Retail

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel

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Academia and Executive Search: Navigating the Academic Leadership Landscape

Nonprofit vs. For-profit Executive Search: What’s the Difference?

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

The Making of Legends

For Women and Minorities to Get Ahead, Managers Must Assign Work Fairly

Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Design Offices to Be More Like Neighborhoods

Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Gender in the Multicultural Corporation

Case Study: When to Drop an Unprofitable Customer

Three Diversity "Best Practices" That Hurt Women

Sears Has Come Back from the Brink Before

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