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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

The Importance of Supply Chain Leadership Starts with the Chief Procurement Officer Supply chain leadership plays a pivotal role in driving organizational success and resilience in today’s dynamic business environment. One key reason why robust supply chain leadership is crucial is its impact on cost efficiency and profitability.

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The Leadership Walk

N2Growth Blog

Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry ( @kevineikenberry ) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. Kevin also hosts the Best of Leadership Blogs 2010 contest of which this blog is a nominee (if you haven’t voted yet, today is the last day for voting). Most would call it work.

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Chaos to Complex :: everything is not an emergency

Mike Cardus

This is an overly complex and chaotic environment, suddenly we have to eliminate all the plans, finances, work Key-Result-Areas, and capacity plans! And, as we work together to make progress, I quickly put together a series of workshop slides that you can use with your team to make some sense of what is happening. Do you feel this way?

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Building Your Brand “Buddy the Elf” Style – Part 1 :: Women on.

Women on Business

In the movie, Buddy failed dismally to keep up with the production of Etch-a-Sketch toys against the skill and speed of the other elves in the workshop. How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? Spreading Christmas spirit, that’s what!

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

They could no longer simply hire new employees to meet every new demand, but needed a more comprehensive and integrated approach that would optimize workforce speed, quality, cost and flexibility, and balance value and risk across the total talent investment. Greater strategic focus required a new workforce approach.