N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. Take stock of the progressive development plans and programs they’ve made available to the workforce. and a development manager at Oracle Corp. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Graduates of MBA programs move into upper management roles and executive positions in nearly any industry. Graduates can also succeed in specialized positions like venture capital, investment banking, or entrepreneurship. They can also become business consultants, offering advice and strategies to help companies grow.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2024

Anish Batlaw Ram Charan Batlaw and Charan share these insights with us: Question: How do you identify, recruit, and support high-performing executive talent? We source candidates through our Talent Bank (which is our repository of vetted execs in the cloud) and quite often work with our preferred search partners. It needs rigor.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2023

It’s the execution of the idea that sets the foundation of a potentially successful venture. This execution requires thorough research of your target market, understanding the needs of your potential customers, and aligning your offerings for maximum appeal. But an idea alone cannot guarantee success.

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Experience to Lead

JUNE 8, 2023

As you read the interview, consider how our newest program, The Inclusive Leader could propel your people development strategy to the next level. Why should leaders of 21st century organization dedicate time and resources for people development, specifically in the space of diversity and inclusion? Who are you as a leader?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Over my many decades in leadership roles, reflecting on my own development as a leader, talking with colleagues, and reading and studying leadership, I have come to believe that there are four essential attributes that drive the responsive leader. In many work environments people must work with other people in order to be successful.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Developing XQ helps people become better leaders. Hire and develop talent using more strategic criteria. Chapters 4—8 describe specific strategies and tools that you can use to further develop your XQ by growing it in yourself, amplifying it in your personal and professional relationships and assessing it over time.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2020

A recent survey by YPO showed 96% of chief executives said building and maintaining trust was a high priority for their success, yet just 34% of the respondents said they had defined and specific plans for building trust in their organizations. They assume trust “just happens.”. Well, if you believe that, I’m sorry to burst your bubble.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Executive Briefing Cost Reduction Opportunity: Inventory Optimization. Economic demands place increasing pressure on executive and managers to reduce costs while maintaining high levels of operational safety, reliability, and efficiency. Sustaining Nuclear.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Anish Batlaw Ram Charan Batlaw and Charan share these insights with us: Question: How do you identify, recruit, and support high-performing executive talent? We source candidates through our Talent Bank (which is our repository of vetted execs in the cloud) and quite often work with our preferred search partners.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

Banks and Insurance companies are masters in the quintessential process. Our ancestors adopted the philosophy of Enlightenment, and since then progress, development and change has become integral to our lives. In the last decade, we have become risk averse to a degree that it is impeding innovation and development.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 10, 2013

Rhoden is a second-generation executive. His father, Jim Rhoden, purchased Indian Hills Country Club from Continental Bank in 1978. The country club lies in the heart of Indian Hills subdivision, a massive development with more than 1,600 single homes. Managers meet regularly, not just annually, with individual employees.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like. The smart entrepreneur uses careful planning, intelligent strategy, and lots of hard work to minimize the risk as much as possible.”. W ILLIAM DONALDSON has led a full life.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Here are five smart charitable giving strategies to keep in mind: 1. Just be sure to get a receipt from the charity for the cash, or keep your credit card statement, bank record or other receipt as documentation. Using some of all of the above strategies, gifting doesn’t have to hurt your wallet either!

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Join us and Mike Cardus, an organizational development expert and facilitator for our Executive Exchange program, for this interactive workshop. To become an expert in what’s right, you must be able to guide others toward progress.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2022

Anish Batlaw Ram Charan Batlaw and Charan share these insights with us: Question: How do you identify, recruit, and support high-performing executive talent? We source candidates through our Talent Bank (which is our repository of vetted execs in the cloud) and quite often work with our preferred search partners.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Global Practice Chair, Strategy N2Growth. ADVANTAGE STRATEGY. Strategy that works has got to be based on something that proves successful in unpredictable, fast moving, and changing times. Here are the five principles that guide Advantage Strategy: #1. By Mark Hefner. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. People-facing jobs, like sales, management consulting and investment banking are dominated by extroverts.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky, authors of Rapid Realignment : How to Quickly Integrate People, Processes, and Strategy for Unbeatable Performance. That single sentence captures the greatest challenge that executives and managers face today: keeping their people and their organizations centered on what matters most.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 19, 2023

A survey by YPO showed 96% of chief executives said building and maintaining trust was a high priority for their success, yet just 34% of the respondents said they had defined and specific plans for building trust in their organizations. They assume trust “just happens. Well, if you believe that, I’m sorry to burst your bubble.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This former working-class credit union in British Columbia seized an opportunity that bigger banks missed: unique customer experience. Financial “spas” with personalized, concierge service and expert advice transformed Blueshore into the bank of choice for affluent clients. Case in point: Blueshore Financial.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

While every leader plans and communicates their strategy before the competition begins, once in the race, it’s often necessary to make split-second decisions to redirect efforts. Developing the mindset and ability to embrace change is a considerable challenge. The same is true of some executives.

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HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

Not all of this is news to chief executives and other business leaders. In a recent McKinsey Global Survey on the future of workforce needs, nearly nine in ten executives and managers say their organizations either face skills gap already or expect gaps to develop within the next five years.

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Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2017

Leading with Vision is a 6-step process for creating a compelling vision that will motivate, rally and inspire employees to be proactive enablers of the vision and company strategy. Management Strategies in a Multigenerational Workforce. Related articles. Employee Engagement. Workplace Culture is Key.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR).

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 19, 2021

Meandering from point to point is not a coherent strategy and yet it is far too prevalent in many organizations. What are some of the major mistakes people make when developing a vision? How do aspiring leaders develop this leadership skill? In your research did you find some leaders more oriented to vision and others execution?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 23, 2023

Developing XQ helps people become better leaders. Hire and develop talent using more strategic criteria. Chapters 4—8 describe specific strategies and tools that you can use to further develop your XQ by growing it in yourself, amplifying it in your personal and professional relationships and assessing it over time.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 11, 2013

While all industries are knowledge-based today, personal knowledge and social capital capabilities are critical to professional service firms (such as consulting, investment banking and law) and research-driven firms that depend upon the capabilities of knowledge workers, both individually and working together.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Tap your community bank. Your community bank has a vested interest in your success and unlike major banks they can’t afford to ignore small business. Community banks also have a unique perspective because most of them are small businesses as well; this common thread gives them the ability to understand your cash flow.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

Winston, a former executive responsible for leadership development at the Countrywide Financial Corporation, spent three years in a legal battle against Countrywide, the once-mighty mortgage giant, and its current owner, Bank of America, contending that he was punished and pushed out for not toeing the company line.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

At a Stanford Director’s College in 2016, Roger Dunbar, chair of the Silicon Valley Bank, told Venkataraman that “when he hears company executives or board members responding to short-term noise with outsize reactions, he likes to pretend he is lost. He’ll ask CEOs at board meetings, ‘ What was our long-term strategy again? ’

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 29, 2020

A recent survey by YPO showed 96% of chief executives said building and maintaining trust was a high priority for their success, yet just 34% of the respondents said they had defined and specific plans for building trust in their organizations. They assume trust “just happens. Well, if you believe that, I’m sorry to burst your bubble.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2019

These revolutionary developments required equally revolutionary changes, including more truly global firms, whole new industries, new ways of organizing enterprises (think first GM and then GE), new ways of working (email, virtual global teams), and more. Levine is an expert on lean and agile software development and information technology.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Are you a master of strategy? As a C-level executive you get paid to make decisions and to take action. Everyone knows you’re a lousy leader if you can’t make decisions. Sound harsh? Do you have great vision?

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. Impulsivity has a huge cost when it comes to capital formation. Hint: it’s not about the money. .

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

And more recently in New York City where we spent two days with two of the greatest leaders of our time, Frances Hesselbein and Dr. Jim Kim, President of the World Bank, and where they were formally trained in Stakeholder Centered Coaching by Dr. Frank Wagner, Chris Coffey, and Will Linssen. Marshall Goldsmith 100 Coaches.

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