Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

It’s about a wildly successful company that went off course. You know this company. Its market cap is over $2 trillion. government scrutinizing it for monopolistic practices, but the company was also coming under fierce attack for investing in its archrival, Apple. Inside the company, morale was at an all-time low.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

W HEN A CEO first assumes their position or joins a new company, they’re often quick to make changes to the executive team, creating a group of trusted advisors who will drive their strategic agenda. But once the CEO has been in place for a few years, this dynamic changes. Take, for instance, the automotive industry.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 12, 2024

In today’s competitive market, American businesses must continuously and comprehensively transform to avoid falling behind. While there is broad agreement on company vision, there is notable discord […] The post Strategic Transformation Imperative for US Companies appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As an executive coaching professional who works with top executives in the world’s largest companies, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of coaching in shaping effective leaders. Leaders face an array of complex challenges, from navigating organizational change to driving innovation and performance.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2020

As our world deals with the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders must understand that it’s going to be technology that determines which companies survive and build success from this unprecedented event. The pandemic makes those technologies more relevant now than ever. These technologies are: Artificial intelligence (AI).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 23, 2023

The other day, HireQuest CEO Richard Hermanns was in Minneapolis and witnessed a restaurant in the middle of the airport closed due to a lack of staffing. HireQuest is a company that provides temporary personnel services. The use of technology in the educational system has become increasingly popular in recent years.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

Their strategy is to use technology and reliable service to consolidate the highly fragmented foodservice industry. The company was sparked when Stefania noticed that doctors in local hospitals were running like chickens with no heads, from appointment to appointment. Each market did reasonably well. ezCater’s business took off.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. times more likely to trust their leaders. “Our

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies. They foster an environment of continuous improvement and embrace new technologies and data analytics to drive efficiency and enhance decision-making capabilities.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Best-in-class organizations require best-in-class leaders because nothing impacts a company’s trajectory more than the people in executive positions. Executive search firms serve companies looking to place executive, board, and C-suite positions, by identifying top-tier candidates who are well aligned to t the role.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. When they converge, they’ll produce sea changes that sink companies and wash away entire industries overnight.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Just take a look at laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and other handheld devices, which were all possible thanks to display technology innovation. One thing I find fascinating about this industry is that you can’t write off any display technology when something new enters the market. It did not make it to the mainstream.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 19, 2012

Last week I identified the successful 21 st century CEO as someone who is constantly thinking about the future. History has shown us that the best performers were those who made the right strategic moves to create a future in which their company would enjoy significant competitive advantage. CEOs will be time-starved.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2018

Most articles that try to tell you how to become a great CEO will talk about actions, plans and processes. To be a great CEO or an effective leader you must first start with who you are as a leader. To be a great CEO or an effective leader you must first start with who you are as a leader. So how do you start? Embrace change.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These coaches bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise from working with top executives in the world’s largest companies. By thinking strategically, executives are better equipped to navigate uncertainty, drive organizational change, and position their companies for long-term success.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I had just come off my first CEO assignment with Pretty Good Privacy, Inc. a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” When I joined the company, it was late delivering the hardware/software card to the partner.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? CEO…that title sounds good doesn’t it? Okay, so you founded the company, but does that mean you should also be the chief executive?

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Reports indicate that the company will soon lay off up to 1,500 employees of their current active workforce. News of the restructuring efforts followed the fourth quarter and full-year 2023 Expedia earnings call where the company actually presented pretty strong performance numbers.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 21, 2013

Do you value operations, maintenance, customer service , engineering, information technology , sales , finance, marketing , accounting – all departments, equally? In Good to Great, Jim Collins explains the best CEOs are not external hires, but brought up through internal development. You can leave a comment here.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Kelli Vukelic, CEO of N2Growth examines the nuances that distinguish boutique search firms from their larger counterparts. Various studies show that the failure rate of executives coming into new companies is 30 to 40 percent after 18 months. Here are some key insights into selecting the right executive search firm to partner with.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 28, 2013

This post first appeared 1/24/2013 on SmartBlog on Leadership : The year 2013 has begun, and with it a new year of scrutinizing CEO performance. The Bloomberg Businessweek Worst CEOs of 2012. Forbes the Worst CEO Screw-ups of 2012. Aubrey McClendon, CEO, Chesapeake Energy, made the top of the list, although it’s not ranked.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 15, 2012

Steve Jobs and Larry Page took note of the environment in which their companies would operate but fretted little about it. Looking to the next 10 years of the 21 st century, there is no question that the business, social, political, economic and technological environment will be very different.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2021

To this end, we must rediscover our passion for marketing , as business owners. That in turn, must incorporate green technology and sustainable design. This is something that is normal in our everyday lives, but something that doesn’t get taken advantage of in our marketing campaigns. Packaging has to be simple.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 10, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Green Company, Red Products, Black Ink. There’s unlikely a responsible CEO in America who hasn’t at one time, said, “You know what folks? I am a member of Houweling’s Board of Directors and a big fan of Casey Houweling, the greenhouse grower’s energetic and visionary CEO. Main menu Home. Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

Think of any top performing CEO and you’ll find that to the one, they possess an uncanny ability to focus on highest and best use activities. While most executives that have reached the C-suite level understand the importance of scaling via delegation, far too many CEOs struggle with the effective implementation of the concept.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For small business owners, reducing operational costs is essential for the success of the company. With rising overhead expenses and competition from larger companies, it can be difficult to keep up with the ever-increasing costs associated with running a business.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001. In their attempt to remain the most profitable airline, the company substantially reduced spending on major investments. Underinvestment in Technology.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2020

Businesses are often quick to slash marketing budgets in times of disruption, and the response to the recent economic upheaval has been no different. Global ad spend is predicted to fall by nearly $50 billion in 2020, with major organizations like Google cutting marketing budgets in half for the rest of the year.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 13, 2024

New companies entering the market recently seem to be making money matters worse. A study from Duke Fuqua found that these newcomers tend to pay their workers with more inequality compared to older companies. This is a problem because once companies set their pay policies, they don’t change them much.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Another CEO colleague told me that his company had a wonderful culture described in detail in his company presentation. A subsequent HR benefits survey across 1500 employees included questions about the company culture. I never learned his reaction to the survey, but the company stock eventually went from $95 to $2.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 15, 2023

This boost was not uniformly observed across industry, however, as this impact was reduced by around 17% in industries where customer preferences are more unpredictable, or where technological changes are more fast-paced. “The relatively unregulated nature of their industries offers strategic and tactical freedom. .

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. I was Nabob’s VP of Marketing, a 32 year-old disciple of an excellent turnaround CEO – a fellow by the name of Hugo Powell who eventually moved on to Interbrew (now Anheuser-Busch InBev ) as CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2013

In the most recent turn of events, Blackstone Group withdrew its bid for the company after making the determination that Dell’s future and the PC industry looks bleak. Throughout all this I cannot help but ask what seems to be a fundamental underlying question about this company, and that is, who should lead Dell going forward?

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won’t Admit It. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Main menu Home. Leadership. So are goals.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 9, 2014

With the news that Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally won''t be riding to Microsoft''s rescue, many Microsoft investors are disappointed. Any new CEO of Microsoft will need Chairman Bill Gate''s blessing and the board is seeking a leader with a strong technical background along with the work ethic Gates had while he was CEO. .

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