N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2022

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. The most complex of all to manage is people, which entails heavy lifting from a soft skill standpoint. The Soft Skills.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Is your board of directors operating at its maximum effectiveness? For boards to maximize their impact, make the greatest contributions, and perform to the best of their abilities, they must operate at their highest potential. Board effectiveness refers to how well a board can do its job and how well it’s able to function.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

They are subject matter experts in their field, the brightest minds, and equipped with the immense technical skills and experience to be at the helm of the world’s most powerful and disruptive companies. When you’re at the top leading organizations, is there still room to grow? What Is Executive Coaching?

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Additionally, investing in employee development allows businesses to stay ahead of the competition by providing their staff with the latest knowledge and skills. For employees, automotive logistics can help them develop new skill sets by keeping them up-to-date with the latest technologies available for transportation management services.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2014

Do you know what everyone in your organization does? This new perspective also improved my leadership skills. Just as I turned that picture over to see it more clearly, I recommend you flip your organization chart to see it for what it really is. By Brian Layer. Chief Executive Officer, N2Growth.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a leader, you can harness these tools to gain a deeper understanding of your organization’s performance, market trends, and customer behavior. Whether it’s financial risks, cybersecurity threats, or operational challenges, AI-powered risk management systems can provide early warnings and suggest mitigation strategies.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2023

Sarah's story is not unique; it reflects a dilemma faced by many leaders and organizations. How can leaders avoid this pitfall and create an environment encouraging growth, collaboration, and understanding? So, how can organizations align leadership development with the unique characteristics of their company's culture?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they’ll work together to help you, your teams, and organization thrive. What is our organization or team’s purpose? How does our work contribute to the bigger picture?

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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. The CCO becomes paramount as enterprises navigate competitive landscapes and complex markets.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 19, 2014

.” – William Arthur Ward When it comes to effectively leading teams and organizations in today’s fast-paced, 24/7 global economy, it’s becoming more and more evident that the days of command-and-control leadership are well behind us. Again, the importance of this can best be appreciated when we consider how our brain operates.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To get your head around how to make Exciting Outcome-Focused Behavior or FEOs part of your normal way of operating at work, you need to understand that your work tasks have nothing to do with whether you love them. What makes a work task or activity lovable is how you think about the result you want to achieve.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I like to call this collection of systems the organization’s “ Human Operating System.” ” Your firm’s Human Operating System is, of course, informed by your vision , enabled by your strategic plans and is translated into company culture. Here are the key parts of every Human Operating System: 1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 1, 2018

Guest post from Derek Lidow: Entrepreneurs can come into their livelihood already possessing some vital skills, but no one shows up being the total package. Skills are learned over years of embracing self-improvement and education. No one method for gaining skills is used and being good at absolutely everything is futile.

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Lead from Within

MAY 31, 2022

Whatever type of organization you’re leading, to be effective in your role requires being able to influence people. If your skills are more focused in other areas of leadership, here are some tips that can help you increase your influence in every direction—up, down and across. Understand your organization.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

When it comes to successfully leading today’s organizations, one skill that’s been growing in importance and need is the ability to manage change. What’s noteworthy about these measures is that they’re not in conflict or removed from their organization’s purpose.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Learn to address the lacuna observed in the preceding year and align the organization’s needs with that of the employees and the organization’s shifts in policies.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A nonprofit executive search firm is a specialized recruitment agency that finds and places top-level talent within nonprofit organizations. They have a deep understanding of the intricacies of nonprofit leadership and are equipped to navigate the complex landscape of mission-driven organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2023

Learn how to uncover your hidden assets, remove invisible barriers limiting peak performance, and amplify strengths to achieve breakthroughs for yourself, your team, and your organization. Leading with Experiential Intelligence 6:35 – How IQ and EQ are part of how we know and move through the world.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Your organization is a Complex Adaptive System—and so are the people you lead. Many leaders expect an organization to operate like a machine, but that leads to failure. Learn how to make complexity an advantage and how to embrace it. 24:19 Organizations have a mindset, and underneath that mindset is the leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

As companies expand their operations into new markets and collaborate with diverse teams, leaders must adapt their leadership styles to accommodate different cultural perspectives. By honing these skills, executives are better equipped to lead diverse teams, foster collaboration, and drive innovation in a global context.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 1, 2024

The latest research revealed that 33% of these leaders have yet to formally integrate or test AI in their organizations. Ignoring these advancements may leave your organization struggling to keep up with competitors who harness the power of AI to enhance their operations, customer experiences, and overall competitiveness.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Here are the of the biggest problems that leaders face today, and how they can solve them: The ever-increasing pace of change: The world is changing faster than ever before, and leaders must be able to adapt and evolve quickly in order to keep up. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 31, 2023

They are tasked with translating strategic direction into operational reality, managing teams, and dealing with the practicalities of day-to-day work. Strategic Thinking: While they're closer to operational details, middle managers also need to be able to think strategically. Understand their pain points.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The battle of the world against the pandemic shook up the workplace, requiring swift accommodation and responses to skills gaps and skill shifts. Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. The Skills Dilemma. How do you prepare for what you don’t know because it is changing so fast?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing leadership is about overcoming an outdated organizational view that taught us to define oneself and value to our organization by the closed and often fragmented black boxes on the organizational chart. The blank white space is the real organization; it’s a place where personal relationships and loyalties exist.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? Managing remote employees and building a successful remote team can be a daunting task for any organization. With 66 percent of workers operating remotely at least part-time, effective strategies for leading virtual teams have become paramount. Still wondering how to manage remote teams?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Senior leadership hires can make or break an organization. So how do you find those top performers and disrupters that can take your organization to new heights? With demand for top executives outstripping supply choosing the best search firm to partner with can have a critical impact on the future of your organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The reality in that period is that far from there being not enough jobs for us to do, the inverse is actually the case and organizations have struggled to find workers to fill vacancies. A systems problem By contrast, when employees are treated better, they not only tend to stay for longer but also deliver better service to the organization.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. Deep purpose leaders understand that this way of operating will inevitably lead to short-term trade-offs among stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors and society at large. ” -Ranjay Gulati.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I I call this, deep purpose.”

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Now more than ever, organizations are facing an overwhelming amount of change. Market declines, increased competition and industry culture shifts all play an enormous role in how an organization functions. Finally, we look at how to grow your personal leadership competencies with learning and development.

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CO2

JUNE 12, 2020

As a multi-disciplinary partnership, we at CO2 Partners have found Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework to be helpful in better understanding the operating environment of an organization. He developed Cynefin while at IBM to help decision-makers better understand how to behave based on their assessment of the organization’s environment.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here are just a few reasons why the best leaders never miss an opportunity to learn: Learning cultivates curiosity: The most successful leaders foster a culture of curiosity and openness within their organization by encouraging learning and inquiry in daily operations. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives. As disruptors in the organization, they hold the onus to align the company’s brand mission with a creative yet commercially viable business strategy.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I I call this, deep purpose.”

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

Leadership is a crucial aspect of any organization, and it’s important for leaders to constantly evaluate their own behavior and practices to ensure they are leading in the right direction. Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2018

There are a lot of skills that make up good leadership, but there is one quality that is possibly the most challenging, that is self-awareness, because self-awareness requires you to focus on yourself—not the easiest thing to do for an outwardly focused leader. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. You can coach others.

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