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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Toxic work environments can only exist where a lack of trust and respect are present, and this can only occur in the absence of sound leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

So commonplace is it that growing businesses have to adapt to the changing environment that the “pivot” has become a part of entrepreneurial lore. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • September 6, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 1 Comment. The advice proved excellent, and for the rest of my days in the corner office I was joined at the hip with an outstanding finance executive who is now the CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli , the world’s leading chocolatier. September 24, 2011 at 3:56 pm.

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Navigate Your Path to Success

Women on Business

A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals. In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom.

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Putting Your Cash to Work in Real Estate

Coaching Tip

And despite the housing market's weakness, Mr. Messina believes that originating home loans in the current environment, when many economists believe housing is at or near bottom, is less risky than putting money in the volatile stock market or opaque bond market. "I Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2011.

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Top 10 US Cities to Capture Small Business Recovery Act Dollars.

Women on Business

If your small business plan can move the nation forward, you’re a step closer to winning Uncle Sam’s financing and support. Providence , RI Providence’s major hospitals make the city a hospitable environment for healthcare stimulus funding. Capture those dollars with an electronic medical records business.

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Katrina Markoff Named Woman of the Year by American Express and.

Women on Business

The steps she took next to bring her chocolates to a larger market would bring her great success over the course of the next decade. That kind of team environment undoubtedly helped Katrina get her company to where it is today. She also leads her company with a keen eye on the environment. Katrina didn’t give up.