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Top Leading Executive Search Firms: Reasons to Use and How to Choose the Best One for You

N2Growth Blog

Leading executive search firms operate in very specific ways to find top leaders who can take a company to its desired future state. While executive search firms have been around for decades, there’s been a recent, revolutionary shift in the ways executive search firms operate. How do executive search firms work?

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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

While their focus may be somewhat short-term, however, their impact tends to be more long-lasting, with this often because of the loss of human capital that results from hedge fund interference. Lasting impact.

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Culture Change: Avoid These Credibility Gaps and Traps

The Practical Leader

Here are a few other key findings: Buzzwords often don’t match how the company operates. Human capital — assets with skin — have a different value than human beings. Most waste time and energy. Many employees see their leaders’ cultural aspirations as hypocritical. With good reason.

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Nuclear Power is Clean, Safe, and Reliable… But Can It Be Competitive?

Strategy Driven

Can nuclear plants be operated competitively in today’s market? An evolving energy market, led by cheap natural gas and subsidized renewable generation, threatens the long-term financial viability of America’s remaining nuclear power plants. For over 30 years, U.S. nuclear plants provided clean, safe and reliable electricity.

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The “Next Practices” of Strategy-Setting

N2Growth Blog

Be Innovative and engaging, not flat and uninspired – countless management consultants employ the same old, tired planning processes that generate little interest or energy. We need to break that cycle and seek planning practices that keeps everyone “honest” in the pursuit of immediate results.

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Inviting New Voices to the Table: HR as a Strategic Partner

HR Digest

Businesses that operate as a collection of independent departments often struggle with cohesion and finding common ground but those with HR as a strategic partner become efficient, uninterruptible success stories. They need to explore how they can help HR become a strategic partner by providing them with the resources they need.

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Getting Leaders to Change

Great Leadership By Dan

Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances. Great leaders work hard to bend over backward for honesty as they realize truth and honesty are the pillars upon which relationships, teamwork, and positive energy are built. However, it is not nearly as fine as we think.

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