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Succession Planning: Not Just for Older Leaders

N2Growth Blog

He is highly intelligent and incredibly successful with a net worth of $15.3 billion as of March 2013 (per Forbes Magazine.) It is clear once again that planned CEO succession is necessary. Yes, Michael Dell is an icon of the stature of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. This presents an interesting dilemma.

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Success Begins with Quality Customer Service

Chart Your Course

Entrepreneurs willing to invest the time and effort into satisfying the most valuable component of their business are setting themselves up for long-term success. But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention.

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Four Ways to Grow Your Business

Chart Your Course

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. They credit their success with more affordable and effective marketing tools via the Internet, and growing support for local businesses.

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A Leadership Lesson from Trappist Monks that Made Me Rich

Great Leadership By Dan

Listen," I said, "the company can be successful with you as CEO. It can be successful under the new CEO. In 2006 my faith and his wisdom bore fruit. For over 1000 years Trappist monks have been building highly successful businesses based on high quality products. What we will not survive is a protracted internal struggle.

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3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture

Michael Lee Stallard

Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films. In 2006, Disney bought Pixar to boost its struggling Walt Disney Animation Studios unit. The success of Pixar and Disney Animation begs the question: what’s the secret sauce?

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?. Put simply, how do you judge the success of a chief human resources officer, and who qualifies for the 2020 Top CHRO List? Selection Methodology.

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Every Leader Has to Start Somewhere!

Marshall Goldsmith

Alan’s story at Ford is a success story, but it wasn’t always that way for Alan on his leadership journey. Cut to 2006 and he was asked to lead Ford out of a deep hole, which he did, employing his unique method of facilitative leadership which he calls “working together.” Alan started out as an engineer at Boeing.

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