N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

This article will examine how new technologies, consumer habits, and the pandemic have influenced consumer expectations, how companies are working to meet changing consumer expectations, and CPG hiring trends today. How common is it for CPGs to hire for key positions outside the industry? Agility is key. Why or why not?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

I N THE PAST DECADE, the corporate world has seen a seismic shift in how it operates. Businesses striving to adapt and thrive amidst these changes must find innovative solutions to the matter of maintaining a robust corporate culture. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Use your failure to “fail forward” toward a purpose or philosophy. Hold onto your True North. Staying Resilient.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 22, 2024

As business landscapes change and challenges evolve, your previous leadership strategies may become ineffective or even counterproductive. Ensure your core principles align with the current needs of your team and market. Gone are the days when your existing skill set would serve you throughout your career.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Succession plans prepare your team for the inevitable people changes. Think your organization is too small? Define Leadership Model: Document what leadership means at your company. Focus instead on alignment.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Evolving Landscape of Human Resources Leadership In this ever-changing business landscape, the role of human resources (HR) leadership continues to evolve and adapt to meet the demands of a dynamic workforce. Moreover, HR leaders must have a keen eye for emerging talent coupled with attracting and retaining top performers.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Reset : Resetting your strategy when the situation changes.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 15, 2024

Empowering your team to problem-solve independently is essential for success in today’s fast-paced business environment. As a leader teaching them to tackle challenges on their own not only fosters resilience and agility. So, how can you help your team develop the skills to solve problems without you?

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, building a resilient organization is more critical than ever. The ability to anticipate, prepare for, respond to, and adapt to disruptions is a key factor in ensuring your organization’s long-term success.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. Mental agility. Watkins Michael D. Pattern recognition.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 21, 2022

Business always includes an element of unpredictability, and agility and flexibility are enduring requirements for successful leadership. But more than ever before we are operating in uncharted waters, and building long-term success in business and leadership means not just implementing new methods but creating a whole new mindset.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 14, 2024

Becoming a new manager is a significant step in your career journey. To succeed as a new manager and lead your team to excellence, you’ll need to hone specific leadership skills. As a new manager, you’ll need to convey your vision, expectations, and feedback clearly and concisely.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2024

The role of a CEO is one of the most challenging and complex in the business world. Embracing change and fostering a culture of innovation is crucial in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape. Successful CEOs remain agile and open to new strategies and ideas. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Most of the organizations I’m talking to and observing during the pandemic recognize the need to up their levels of innovation and agility. After all, if you need to pivot your business model and set yourself up to succeed in whatever environment presents itself next, you need to have those two qualities embedded in your culture.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2020

Success Mindsets : Your Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, & Leadership by Ryan Gottfredson. Bezonomics : How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It by Brian Dumaine. Jeff Bezos is the business story of the decade.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Most of my clients these days are seeking help in developing strategies that will enable them to become more agile and quick. But, many struggle to embrace the deeper implications of what that really means to build business agility. But, what does it really take for a business to become more agile?

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Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 18, 2024

What they do not do well is identify the most important hazards and opportunities early enough, formulate creative strategic initiatives nimbly enough, and implement them fast enough.” – John Kotter, Harvard Business School Business disruption, societal upheaval and rapid technological shifts bring constant pressure for organisations to innovate.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

While we often focus on well-known emotions like joy, confidence, and determination, there are several other emotions that, when nurtured, can significantly contribute to the success of your team. As a leader, it’s essential to recognize and cultivate these undervalued emotions within your team members.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2021

Agile is basically a philosophy that accompanies a way of working. It goes beyond the simple process because it encompasses a way of understanding how our work, our organization, our way of interacting and responding to stakeholders has changed. You have to know how to be agile, flexible and decisive. Agile origin.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The Importance of a Strong Chief Commercial Officer in Business A robust Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) plays an instrumental role in businesses, providing strategic supervision, guidance, and management of all aspects of commercial operations.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

By investing in coaching your board chair, your organization can unlock the full potential of its leadership team, paving the way for innovation, collaboration, and sustainable growth. Adaptability and agility are critical for success in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

For many years I have been discussing how the skills of leaders needs to change to meet the needs and demands of the 21 st century workforce, and the recent pandemic has just highlighted this even more. In the past, leadership was all about what skills you had and your ability to get results. Consistency. Commitment.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 16, 2018

These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face. Agility: remain flexible to changes and adapt with speed. • Agility: remain flexible to changes and adapt with speed. Agility has become a popular concept today. Change your mindset.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Here are actionable insights to help you on your leadership journey: Cultivate Empathetic Leadership: While self-awareness is often championed, empathetic leadership takes it a step further. In today’s fast-paced business environment, leaders must be agile and open to innovation.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2024

In an ever-evolving business landscape, staying ahead of the curve is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. As we march towards a future teeming with technological advancements, the infrastructure of our business spaces must not only keep up but also anticipate and adapt to future needs.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it? Sunstein - (August 2023) How do we decide how we decide?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2021

The hype cycle surrounding Agile is almost deafening, with exponents advocating the virtues of the movement that grew out of software development circles to fundamentally change how many products and services are developed today. The paper also outlines some of the key organizational characteristics that render them suited to Agile.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

And through the gyrations of the year, many leaders saw levels of agility, adaptiveness, and creativity in their organizations beyond anything they’d previously imagined. In the words of William James, “Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed”. See your business as others do.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

In Beyond Great , three partners from the Boston Consulting Group —Arindam Bhattacharya, Nickolaus Lang, and Jim Hemerling—make the point hat being great is no longer good enough to succeed when the very notion of outstanding business performance is being reinvented. Strategy #3: Refine Your Global Game. Great is no longer good enough.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 24, 2024

Adaptability in a Rapidly Changing Landscape: In today’s fast-paced business world, adaptability is paramount. Adaptability in a Rapidly Changing Landscape: In today’s fast-paced business world, adaptability is paramount. CEOs must be agile in navigating unforeseen challenges and evolving markets.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 3, 2024

As the world of work evolves, artificial intelligence (AI) is quickly becoming a key component in modern business. Therefore, adopting AI-driven automation results in an agile work environment, promoting swift adaptation to market changes and improved efficiency. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The world around us is changing rapidly, and there’s real value in giving people the tools to find their way through new business environments. The world around us is changing rapidly, and there’s real value in giving people the tools to find their way through new business environments. The result is an agile and adaptable workforce.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Change is the only constant and agile HR appears to be the next evolutionary stage of human resources in an organization. The word agile invokes a lot of synonyms—lithe or limber, for those more inclined to literature, or quick and light-footed for those more focused on conveying its meaning. What is Agile HR?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

In the almost 25 years I spent in a corporate environment, I held eight different positions in three major business areas. I was willing to risk a career for the ability to continue learning in far-ranging business arenas. Agile leaders are exactly what we need in our organizations that are getting bigger, flatter, and more complex.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2018

J ONATHAN LAW created The GuruBook to change, refine, and enhance your thinking. We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. Of course, the big companies have an advantage due to the amount of data they often how. Daniel Burrus: How to Anticipate the Future.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Think about it: when an executive leader is already the best of the best, how are they expected to get even better on their own accord? In today’s high-stress business environment, performance is everything for executives and their organizations. For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

Hiring capable candidates that are a good fit for your organization is just the first step of building a happy and motivated workforce. If you fail to take steps to ensure that your employees are content in your organization, you risk having demoralized and inefficient staff. Support Your Team.

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