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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Here’s how a global executive search firm can ultimately allow a Board to operate at its peak performance and empower it to realize its most ambitious goals. But the way global executive search firms execute this process is precise, specialized, and leads to elite results that are challenging to match otherwise.

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Millennials Speak! 5 Future Leadership “Must Haves”

Marshall Goldsmith

So, why do most companies go about picking their next generation mired in the past? The truth is that companies that only choose wise, experienced people for this task of succession are mired in myopia. It is a company looking into the future like a horse with blinders. Global thinking will take a global perspective.

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How To Increase Profits Through Gender-Balanced Leadership

Eric Jacobson

"While the global population is largely gender balanced, men hold eighty-five percent of senior leadership positions in public companies," states Melissa Greenwell , author of the new book, Money on the Table: How to Increase Profits Through Gender-balanced Leadership. percent a year higher than those with no female representation.

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Boards Aren’t as Global as Their Businesses

Harvard Business Review

There’s a growing consensus that companies need strong, independent boards full of qualified directors if they are to sidestep risks and seize opportunities in our complex and dynamic international economy. One of the most important of those issues is, of course, globalization. since the index was first developed in 2008.

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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

Given the forecasts of uncertain global economic growth, we might expect companies to hold off from hiring new employees and to limit whatever international hiring they do to emerging markets. The vast majority of board members told us their companies are hiring in double-digits and across the globe. So the war for talent is on.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Other consumer-focused companies such as IKEA and Starbucks are following in KFC's footsteps, but the learning curve is both steep and long. Focus recruiting efforts to bring diverse, multicultural candidates into the company.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. We found that concerns about innovation fall behind other issues for most directors.