N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

By transforming insights into actionable steps, organizations can enhance their talent pipeline while cultivating strategic visionaries who drive both short-term performance and long-term growth. As challenges become more multifaceted, it is critical to align leaders capabilities with the evolving needs of the organization.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

While this book will certainly benefit those who want to start a business, it looks beyond new venture creation to expose the entrepreneurial mindset as a teachable framework for thinking that has become essential for individuals and organizations to adapt and thrive in today's rapidly changing world.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 15, 2025

At N2Growth, we have seen a clear shift in how organizations prioritize the employee journey as a central tenet of sustainable success. Many organizations are now investing in digital engagement platforms, harnessing artificial intelligence for predictive analytics, and tuning into mental health and wellbeing in ways once seen as peripheral.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement Organizations are increasingly recognizing the importance of evolving into learning organizations to remain competitive and adapt to continuous market changes. A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Giving up isn’t an option as it would mean forsaking the company and their career. Kindness: Being friendly, generous, and considerate are all traits associated with kindness and are valued across all societies and organizations. Kind leaders are more effective in inspiring and motivating their employees.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 1, 2025

Organizations either attract or repel trust based on how they structure work, define accountability, and manage relationships. What Is Trust in Organizations? Within organizations, trust is predictability in action. However, trust does not require that organizations be simple. Organizations are inherently complex.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Power of Culture : An Economist Edge Book (The Economist Edge Series) by Laura Hamill All organizations have a culture, whether they acknowledge it or not—and whether it's helping or hindering them. The world’s highest-performing organizations understand they need more than leadership to win—they need teamship.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Great leaders, however, leave a lasting impression, influencing those they lead and the organizations they serve in profound ways. As an executive leadership coach with years of experience, I’ve dedicated my career to helping leaders reach their full potential. But how can you recognize a truly exceptional leader?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

Tiny Experiments : How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff Life isnt linear, and yet we constantly try to mold it around linear goals: four-year college degrees, ten-year career plans, thirty-year mortgages. In this way, AI can help leaders and organizations become more human.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 22, 2024

Several trends are reshaping how organizations operate and manage talent. Understanding and leveraging this trend can benefit leaders aiming to build a resilient organization and employees seeking engagement and growth. Here are three actionable strategies to turn quiet hiring into a positive force within your organization: 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Can I organize time in an upcoming meeting for us to share how we contribute best to the team?” But whether they do or not, you have the ability to get the support, recognition, and career growth you deserve. When decision-makers hear about your impact from others , it carries even more weight. And if you need more help?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

How does your organization make a difference to your customers, clients, or constituents? Often, they hadn’t paid attention to the organizations values and what behaviors and outcomes matter most. What matters most in your organization? It’s helpful to build relationships inside and outside your organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As you move higher up the leadership chain within an organization, this becomes even more difficult and requires leaders to learn the art of effective delegation while still leading by example and making the most of each interaction with the team. There is no better way to do that than by choosing to be vulnerable and authentic.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

She encourages women to treat their career like an investment portfolio with early deposits of bold moves, courageous actions, and informed risk. One thing I know for certain that I wish to impart to you: Brilliant careers are seldom built without bold moves ,” says Hunter Arscott. Instead of asking: “How do I balance?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Building a Human-Centered Leadership Approach [00:38] Discover how a human-centered leadership approach can transform your work environment, helping you master communication and accelerate team performance while building a career with respect and influence. [01:30] 33:24] Marketing as a safe space?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Securing top-tier leadership is essential for life sciences organizations facing unique challenges like regulatory complexities and the need for continuous innovation. Organizations are competing not only within the industry but also with sectors like technology and healthcare for similar skill sets.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

It goes beyond the ability to bounce back from challenges; it includes an organization’s capacity to anticipate, prepare for, respond, and adapt to gradual changes or sudden disruptions to survive and succeed. A resilient organization is both reactive and proactive, strengthening its ability to adapt to withstand external shocks.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ Source: What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential II.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

People who are not “thriving in their lives are much more vulnerable and add risk to your organization.”. Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ Make wellbeing part of career development conversations. What can leaders do?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2021

The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership: Confidence, Humility, Influence, and Career Success. In this wisdom-packed interview, former Wallstreet executive Dr. Kaliym Islam shares the many leadership moments that transformed his career. The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership. 13:49 – Then we discuss how Kaliym learned this leadership humility.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Employee engagement is the cornerstone of any successful organization. When there are no clear paths for career development or skill enhancement, employees may lose motivation and interest in their work. When employees see a future for themselves within the organization, they are more likely to stay committed and engaged.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2023 that you will want to check out: Chronos or Kairos—Is it Your Moment for a Career Change? by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel!

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Ensure the organization is reputable and inquire within your network about its track record, particularly its longevity and the roles they’ve placed. Authentic firms will almost exclusively utilize corporate email addresses, with their websites appearing well-organized and containing verifiable information.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Leaders in any organization can enjoy higher performance on every dimension if they establish a discipline of daily, weekly, monthly, and annual practices that systematically support their centeredness. He has worked with teams from organizations including Harvard Medical School, F5 Networks, Angellist, and Google. The takeaway?

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

You need to proactively help him develop a strategy for remaining marketable and valuable, helping him define a viable pathway for his career. Embarking on a new career pathway takes courage, especially if it’s substantially different from what this individual once envisioned for himself. Promote self-confidence and leadership ability.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

His approach to building a fun work culture has helped organizations boost team performance and morale. 41:13 – 42:18 | The Impact of Caring Leaders Phil recounts an experience with a former boss who canceled his entire afternoon to discuss Phil’s career goals.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Research indicates that organizations with higher levels of employee happiness see greater productivity, customer satisfaction, and profits. By making them part of the decision-making process, leaders show that they trust their expertise, making them feel valued and integral to the organization’s future.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

7:57 Many organizations “talk the talk” about courage, but the sense is that the “yes people” are the ones who actually get promoted. 20:44 What’s a good way to not be a yes person and be able to advance your career when the leadership appears to not value that sort of courage? kindness).

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. Embarking on a journey of self-reflection and discovery, he forged a path to revolutionize his leadership and transform his career trajectory. The Catalyst : How to Change Anyone's Mind by Jonah Berger. Everyone has something they want to change.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Create purposeful organizations and align personal and professional purpose. What is unique to Millennials and Gen Zers is that they were “found to be seeking purpose and meaning at such an early stage in their careers.” The more congruence there is between the two, the more authentic a person will appear to be to their peers.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

These changes necessitate a keen understanding of the current landscape to successfully navigate the complexities and ensure organizations’ continued operations and survival. Leadership transitions can pose a major challenge to any organization, especially in a turbulent environment.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2020

In our meetings with CEOs and HR directors, it is evident there is a growing concern within organizations needing to strengthen current leaders and support the bench of the future ones. When the business environment in which leaders and organizations must operate has changed considerably. How do they affect Leadership?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

9:30-11:56: Transitioning to Dan’s current endeavors, he introduces us to his innovative approach to fostering connections within organizations, especially in a remote work environment. 17:11-18:46: The discussion turns to setting ambitious goals for leaders, aiming to make your organization the best place employees have ever worked.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

To do that, we must be prepared to do battle from time to time with the internal bureaucracy in our organizations. Source: Speech, Managing Your Career: The Ultimate Solo Flight. But even more than that, we have to be prepared to fight against our own inertia — or what one poet described as ‘mind-forges manacles.’”.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Grit Factor : Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World by Shannon Huffman Polson. In writing The Grit Factor , Polson made it her mission to connect with an elite pack of tough, impressive female iconoclasts who shared with her their candid stories of combat and career.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Leaders can recognize patterns, establish connections, and strategically position their organizations for long-term success when they keep the big picture in mind and concentrate on it. As leaders progress in their careers, the challenges they face evolve.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Marcella Bremer of Positive Culture contributed Humanocracy: upgrade your organization and culture. Marcella considers: “ Let’s create organizations as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them. Average performance shows up in every organization, on every team, and for every leader. Creativity/Inspiration.

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