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

N2Growth Blog

A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. You will subconsciously know when a candidate is CEO material.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2024

Leading Blog

Learned Excellence is a comprehensive and practical guide to the mental disciplines of high performance, from the expert who developed the US Navy SEALs mental toughness curriculum and has worked with thousands of top athletes, elite military personnel, business executives, and first responders. It's time to fight back.

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What this CEO Learned from Having Covid-19

Skip Prichard

Though we did not travel for the holidays, and I maintained social distancing, wore a mask, washed my hands, sanitized constantly, and disinfected everything, I found that the virus somehow invaded my space anyway. Skip Prichard is the CEO of OCLC, Inc. As sick as I was, I knew I would be positive for COVID-19.

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Benefits of Studying Automotive Engineering

Strategy Driven

This means that you have a lot of opportunities to showcase your creativity and improve it with time, like CEO Patrick James. If you want to travel the world and work on different kinds of the latest technology, then this field is for you. Development of Skills. Improved Lifestyle. Hands-on Experience.

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2020

Leading Blog

Rather than dispensing simplistic rules, he mentors readers in the development of a mental toolkit for approaching challenges based on how startup markets evolve in real life. Upon becoming Honeywell’s CEO in 2002, he encountered an organization on the verge of failure, thanks to years of untrammeled short-termism.

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Rebooting Work: How to Make Work— Work for You

Leading Blog

Rebooting Work by Silicon Valley legend Maynard Webb and Carlye Adler is a sensible look at the changing nature of the workplace and how you can use emerging technologies to take charge of your career. To become a CEO of your own destiny. Webb believes that technology presents us with an opportunity. Companies are changing too.

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Want to Cut Complexity? Kill Your Darlings.

In the CEO Afterlife

Risk-averse CEOs find comfort in the ‘ doing more of the same’ strategic mode. Optimists favor ‘ doing more with more ,’ placing bets that higher sales and profits will pay for the added investments in headcount or technologies; we’ve all been there at one time or another. This journey isn’t an easy one.