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Doubting Existing Management: Private Equity’s Talent Conundrum

N2Growth Blog

The journey from meticulous deal-making to managing assets proficiently has put an unprecedented emphasis on acquiring and retaining the right talent. The Talent Deficit Spectrum Diving deeper, the data reveals that 48% of fund managers in private equity firms and operating partners find their organizations understaffed.

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What Makes Urban Labor Markets Resilient?

The Horizons Tracker

Urban labor markets are often said to be highly resilient, but it’s not always entirely clear why that is. There is clearly a strong desire across policymakers, economists, and employers to understand the kind of factors that contribute to a healthy job market. The post What Makes Urban Labor Markets Resilient?

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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas. With the iPod in 2001 and iPhone in 2007, they didn’t just create a successful product, they created a new category of product. Fight all new players or acquire them.

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How to Ensure Your Organization’s Digital Transformation Succeeds

Leading Blog

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers.

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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc., Most companies can claim an element of success in some aspect of CRM proficiency such as sales force automation, database marketing, development of a knowledgebase, etc.,

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Managing Talent in a Passion Driven Job Market

Strategy Driven

The question then becomes, as a business owner, leader or HR manager, what should you do about it? I would contend that the best investment you can make is in talent management. That manifests itself in how we recruit, manage, appraise and develop talent. You just finished reading Managing Talent in a Passion Driven Job Market