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How a Board Search Firm Can Support Organizations

N2Growth Blog

Boardrooms today face new, evolving challenges that are increasingly complex to navigate, and they are under immense pressure and scrutiny to operate at maximum effectiveness. 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.

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Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

Pursuing Entrepreneurial Companies: Grad Advice. When a company has clout, there isn’t much incentive to re-invent. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars.

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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. High-potential women often operate under the radar.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

That’s one of the questions we asked ourselves as we conducted a survey of directors of public and private companies headquartered in the United States. The disparities in the perceived importance of these issues could affect how directors prioritize and choose to address risks to the company. We also found that industry matters.

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When Having Too Many Experts on the Board Backfires

Harvard Business Review

Though companies can easily manipulate the proportion of directors with domain expertise when building a board or appointing new directors, we know virtually nothing about its effects on corporate performance. .” That is, the percentage of directors whose primary professional experience is within a firm’s industry.

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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.

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Multicultural Leadership Starts from Within

Harvard Business Review

As new technologies in social media, transportation, and telecommunications bring us closer together, it's more critical than ever for organizations to recruit, develop, and retain multicultural leaders who can skillfully navigate both the opportunities and challenges of a more connected world. The world is getting smaller.