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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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StrategyDriven Welcomes Ruth Todd, PhD

Strategy Driven

For nearly three decades, Ruth led the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations’ (INPO) Information Technology Division as Director, Computer Systems and Telecommunications and Director, Information Technology and Data Services. nuclear power industry which reduced costs with economies of scale, shared content, and secure student data.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobson

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Apply world-class management to traditionally "soft" societal topics.

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Can Nokia Reinvent Itself Again?

Harvard Business Review

Nokia, today’s telecommunications networking company, has made corporate transformation into an art form. In 1992, new CEO Jorma Ollila and his team made a decision that is iconic in the world of corporate reinvention, going all-in on the emerging telecommunications markets. Of course, we know what happened next.

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Before You Open a Business…

Leading Blog

There are many ways that even a good business with good leadership can be damaged or bankrupted. Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. Can you comfortably make course corrections when your decisions don’t work out?

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. Because it isnt their sport. We all have.

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The Rise of the Not-So-Experienced CEO

Harvard Business Review

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. Through this effort, we have observed certain characteristics of this emerging trend.

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