N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. This person is currently looking for a change, after serving their firm for over 11 years.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The result is a case study in the cost of ignoring employees. Leadership’s failure to heed their employees. This decision by Southwest leadership to ignore employees is surprising, given the company’s long history of servant leadership. Ultimately, this lead to the costly operational failure and reputational damage​​.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The process of sourcing, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding an executive continues to evolve at a rapid pace. Many corporations are overhauling their approach to hiring executives and are more open-minded to change than ever before. 4 Trends in Executive Hiring With Strategic Solutions.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. Mary Langowski, Executive Vice President and President of the U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. Leadership Lessons. Southwest Airlines Fall From Grace. Invest in Technology.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Here are some key insights into selecting the right executive search firm to partner with. Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. Various studies show that the failure rate of executives coming into new companies is 30 to 40 percent after 18 months. There are thousands of U.S. Plethora of Choices.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company. It’s a journey where coaches, with their expertise and experience, help you navigate the complexities of business decisions, strategy formulation, and personal leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2023

In response, many top-heavy healthcare organizations are gutting administrative roles and requiring executives to take on broader responsibilities. This article will explore some of the transformational solutions that executive leaders have implemented to address the challenges of adapting to the ongoing digital transformation of healthcare.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. How to confront your fears and escape those traps by operating a mindshift.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. He shares these in Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff. Five Types of Leadership. Build Trust 2.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In servant-leadership terms, this is a failure of the principle, THOROUGHNESS.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 23, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have long recognized the importance of understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we lead and manage organizations. I have been encouraging my clients to embrace AI in their operations to stay competitive and drive growth.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

"AI doesn't replace leadership; it redefines it. In the age of intelligent machines, the savvy executive adapts, learns, and thrives." As executives navigate the complex waters of modern-day leadership, understanding AI isn't just beneficial—it's essential. Let's dive in. Is it customer service? Supply chain management?

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Growth is a leadership issue, not a sales issue,” he adds. And why the relationship that executives and leaders have with the sales organization is among the most important elements of growth leadership. Transform your leadership communication style to inspire with the 3 Cs: Credibility, Clarity and Connection.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2017

Regardless of titles or functional position, the lead role in a security organization is expected to wear many hats and solve a myriad of strategic, operational and tactical problems. Communicating to executives and board members. Human resource leadership. This increases security spending costs. IT Security, V.P.,

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2021

Coconino County has enhanced its Public Works fleet operations by focusing on employee development and establishing new business practices. In the last five years, Public Works leadership have taken many actions to build a sustainable future. Background. Flagstaff, Arizona receives an average of 100 inches of snow in a year.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders. And switching isn’t the total cost. The post Building Trust: A Leadership Imperative appeared first on Lead Change.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Why Hire Executive Coach as a CEO? This is why hire an executive coach! This is why hire an executive coach! Why Hire Executive Coach – Get You Unstuck How do we become aware of our mental models?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. 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. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2020

Cutting costs is the oft-repeated phrase that companies are using to meet the downturn in the economy and the declining revenues and sales. For most, cost-cutting translates to job cuts in the organization. But there are other ways to tighten the belt and do operational budgeting. Do away with unnecessary costs.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? Why Hire an Executive Coaching as a CEO? This is why hire an executive coach! This is why hire an executive coach! Why Hire Executive Coaches – Get You Unstuck How do we become aware of our mental models?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

By: Gary Cohen Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? It’s hard for CEOs to improve their leadership because they rarely get candid feedback from their subordinates who fear possible retribution. This is just one reason why you would hire an executive coach.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Dimension Time Cost Operator. The DTC Operator Algorithm.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Guest post from Atta Tarki and Gustav Brown : Selecting the right executive search firm can be almost as difficult as finding the right candidate for the job. By and large they’ve been surprised to see how differently we evaluate their potential executive search partners than they would. How are they sourcing and engaging talent?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

In the text that follows you’ll hear Sam’s views on leadership, the state of the market, and you’ll be introduced to his retirement ambitions and the future challenges for the boardroom, following his return to Perth, Australia. I had joined the Rio Board in 2009, so I already had broad oversight of the company’s diverse operations.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. The problem is leadership on autopilot.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

The cost is staggering. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. Drama-based organizations and relationships operate at a fraction of their capacity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

My leadership capabilities would be pushed to the brink. Burnout is Impacting Your Team and Costing You Money Right Now. Work stress cost businesses $300 billion per year in absenteeism, loss of talented employees, health costs, and programs to reduce stress. This leads to a huge amount of leadership frustration.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Consequently, a business may be short of cash until payment is received.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2020

T HE BIGGEST CHANGE being brought about by AI is not human replicas, but the emergence of digital operating models. The operating model is how that is accomplished. The goal of the operating model is to deliver value at scale, to achieve sufficient scope, and to respond to changes by engaging in sufficient learning.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Doing the right things to get the right things done requires a GPS system to achieve high performance-driven execution.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

By taking the right actions to improve operations now, we could position ourselves to improve performance later, while the reverse would also hold true: short-term results would validate that we were on the right long-term path. Grow while keeping fixed costs constant. He did both. I realized we could do both at the same time.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should. This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. Yet if the color balance was off, the job would have to be run again (creating waste and higher costs for the job)! What Do You Pay Attention To?

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 20, 2012

The company has been a role model of servant leadership since its founding by Herb Kelleher (and others). During the financial earnings call, CEO Gary Kelly , CFO Laura Wright and Executive VP Robert (Bob) E. Jordan reflected the company’s commitment to servant leadership. Improved Results by Acquired AirTran.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

My role changed from hiring entry-level roles in the local market to hiring professional and executive-level roles virtually across the country. Nevertheless, businesses that solve these challenges can benefit from increased flexibility, reduced operational costs, greater productivity, and an improved ability to scale.

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