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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

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A successful executive understands the intricacies of the supply chain and leverages their expertise to drive innovation, reduce costs, and enhance organizational efficiency. A well-rounded and comprehensive set of leadership requirements can be defined by involving stakeholders from finance, operations, and other relevant areas.

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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog

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If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Great leaders do the right thing regardless of circumstances, situational context or other influencing factors. They tend to almost be addicted to increasing their knowledge base and sphere of influence.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

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This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. " exercise is a good one. I Think Not.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

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The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog

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As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog

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Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

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A goal is a specific target and the objectives are the attainment components/benchmarks/hurdles which will lead you toward achieving said goal. Goal: Take that hill – Objectives: taking out the bunkers, machine gun nests, and other fortified positions that stand in your way of taking the hill. I Think Not.

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