N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2016

One college student who wrote to me for advice was planning to drop out at the end of the semester to start his own social media business, but he was getting blowback from his peers. Similarly, you should take your colleagues’ advice with a grain of salt, especially if it reflects on them and their choices in some way.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

The career question I hear most often from rising senior leaders is this: “How do I get on the C-suite shortlist?” ” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Research we conducted at VitalSmarts shows that 97% of employees readily admit to having a “career-limiting habit” — some behavior that will forever hold them back, unless they can learn to change it. Consider the example of a CFO we worked with who had his heart set on landing the CEO job when his boss retired.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

” Most working parents look to their networks of mentors, coworkers, and professional contacts for advice on balancing the competing demands of work and home. What I’ve heard back is unexpected, empowering advice that addresses some of the greatest working-parent problems head-on, and is universally relevant, too.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Andy O’Connell Career Ladder to Nowhere? First there''s the phenomenon of "frenetic networking-by-vague-association" in which you pretend to know people you want to be associated with, a system that creates an online "Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder." That would only tip off the mendacious.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Even in the most well-oiled CEO succession processes, one piece is almost always missing: preparing the current CEO for the next phase in his or her career. We studied the post-CEO careers of 50 Chief Executives in the Fortune 500, and interviewed 13 of them.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Art summarizes, “For all of us, the need to help our firms navigate change while doing the same in our careers defines our level-up challenge.” Dana Theus of InPower Coaching contributed Workplace Advice-Why Should I Bother Feeling Grateful For a Crappy Boss? Let’s Get Started. ” Follow Art on Twitter at @artpetty.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. We call everybody within the company a “client.” Attract top talent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

One of my students had a great piece of advice for her classmates. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself' Learn to delegate once and for all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Just the Job!: Lees suggests you ask for your manager''s advice on how to best pitch yourself for the position. Address career blemishes. Career planning Hiring Job search' Smart and Fast Strategies to Get the Perfect Job , agrees. Not their real names.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Here is Denise’s post from her perspective as one who has led change from within organizations like Sony during her corporate career and from the outside as a consulting partner, a role she has played for the past 6 years. We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” And in each of these situations, there were young gifted leaders that had the foresight to use these new categories as rocket fuel for their careers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2013

We talked to 24 current and former not-white-male CEOs , who spoke candidly about what they faced as they built their careers and how they developed inclusive organizations. And we''ve got advice about how to sell your ideas to women , in a world where there are growing numbers of women with P&L power.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Stybel, a career management and board adviser and an executive in residence at Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School. But your career can get sidetracked if you don’t treat people in a dignified way.” Presiding over layoffs is a “distasteful part of management that many people fear,” says Laurence J.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

In my career studying organizational behavior, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing some incredibly effective conflict management techniques. The hospital CFO was not interested in funding a mammography service that would generate unreimbursed care while the university was raising debt to build a new campus. Bad idea.

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