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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

A strategic-minded CPO deeply understands market trends, supplier dynamics, and emerging technologies. Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence. Top supply chain leaders constantly seek new challenges and opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Those team members who share a commonality of core values will automatically assume “best intentions” in one another vs. assuming “worst intentions” or “motives/agendas.” People can do some due diligence before going to work for a compnay. From my perspective there is no such thing as a toxic asset.

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The Shocking Costs of Hiring Mistakes … And The Secrets to Avoiding Them

The Empowered Buisness

According to Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos, hiring mistakes have cost his company as much as $ 100 million! In addition, the highly competitive job market has triggered an increase in exaggerated claims, embellished resumes and “half truths” often missed in the hiring process. Shocking costs of hiring mistakes.

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Research: When CEOs Don’t Win Awards, They Make More Acquisitions

Harvard Business Review

Each year major business media outlets rank CEOs based on their performance. The few who win awards and earn the highest ranking become superstar CEOs — they gain visibility and higher social recognition, and they may even earn higher compensation. But for every happy award-winning CEO, there are many more CEOs who did not win.

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Before a Merger, Consider Company Cultures Along with Financials

Harvard Business Review

A normal acquisition process seeks to ensure something basic: a strategic rationale for a deal, supported by a thoughtful selection process, with known risks identified by a short, intense due diligence. What this requires is doing some integration due diligence as part of the M&A process.

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The Stakeholders You Need to Close a Big Deal

Harvard Business Review

Even more, it requires understanding their motivations. The primary motivation of the champion is status: champions want to feel important. The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. CEOs are on the hunt to understand who has done what, and who has succeeded. CEOs cannot manage their silos via hub-and-spoke and expect digital expertise to be properly incorporated in key decisions.