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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

I started my career in executive search right out of college over 13 years ago, so recruiting is work that I’ve always done and always loved. Now 13 years into my career, all of us will have to re-learn how to navigate recruiting during a severe global pandemic that is unprecedented in magnitude.

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Care for a white-water ride?

N2Growth Blog

Making plans flexible means that organizational developments and career plans have to be adjusted more frequently than we were used to. Both leaders and employees have to learn to anticipate market and political trends more quickly and adapt to them. We should continue to make plans, provided we make our plans as flexible as possible.

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Manage to Meet Your Customers’ Needs

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Managing at the right level is the most important element in effective management in the Age of Diverse Markets. In the prior mass markets era, companies had homogeneous markets, so they needed to plan and coordinate only at the executive level, with the rest of the company’s managers focusing on their respective functional specialties.

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Culture Counts

Leading Blog

Perhaps the most crucial linking pin connecting great leaders and their vision is the personal value system they demonstrate and teach to others which becomes ingrained in the fabric of the firm, the so-called “corporate culture.” (Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. By then their worldviews are largely formed, and at best they graft frontier market experiences onto that mature-market base. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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How Liberal Arts Colleges Can Stop Fueling the “Skills Gap”

Harvard Business Review

There is a growing consensus among students, parents and employers that today’s young liberal arts graduates lack the skills needed to succeed in the post-Recession job market. Schools can’t continue to deliver an expensive credential that is not seen as delivering a viable path to a career—no matter what the long-term value.

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3 Ways to Take Action in the Face of Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

As part of the leadership at a strategy firm growing rapidly in frontier markets, there were times when I should have receive a notice akin to that “red star cluster” — and certainly times when I should have sent one but didn’t. ” Businesses that face uncertainty also need culture that socializes errors.