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Managing Company Culture Anthropologically

Leading Blog

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. The Culture Dilemma Employee engagement in American companies has hovered around 30 percent for 60 years. B USINESSES are really bad at establishing an engaging culture. But what does this mean?

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How To Transform Your Company

Lead Change Blog

Your financial and emotional health are linked to how functional, or dysfunctional, your company is. If you’re feeling stuck, frustrated, or haven’t seen growth in your company, you may need to realign YOUR company whether you own, lead or work in it. The post How To Transform Your Company appeared first on Lead Change.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. Realize that P.E.

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A Cure for the Common Company

Leading Blog

Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being at John Hopkins Medicine, Richard Safeer, provides six building blocks to do that in A Cure for the Common Company. Willpower alone won’t do it. Shared Values Including employees through conversation or, in most cases, online surveys is a good way to know the values are shared.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Ideals and Compromise

N2Growth Blog

portfolio company executives , diving into hiring assessment essentials in terms of hard skills to lead a portfolio company and run the business. Adding a new CxO might create temporary instability in a firm that has relied on generations of insiders or in the case of a more recent startup, a mercurial leader to harness the company.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

If a company puts its talent first in its strategy and decision-making, these problems won’t arise in the first place. THE “WHY” BEHIND THE TRENDS Rather than looking to protect your company from the latest viral movement, look at why your employees are disgruntled, disengaged, or quitting in the first place.

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Is Blogging Dead?

N2Growth Blog

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. 500 companies) indicated the use of blogging was down 13% from the prior year. Here’s the thing – just because a university, trade association, company, professor, etc.,

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