Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2014

Adam Bryant has put together a great leadership companion with Quick and Nimble. There’s great advice on a wide range of leadership issues from Why Culture Matters to Alone at the Top. Ryan Smith, CEO of Qualtrics) Rules of the Road : “Ideas can come from anywhere. You don’t stand a chance of making it work.” It’s everything.”

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

And that’s why we’ve come so close to going from data that one human can process, to Big Data, which requires dozens of sensors to process. Which brings us back to those folks in the corporate driver’s seat — the CEO. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. So, are CEOs really necessary anymore? No driver necessary.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Today, I help (mostly) professional services firms — law, accounting, insurance, architecture, finance — attain growth, productivity, and profitability. People leave managers, not companies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. Second, they must become a trusted consigliere to the CEO. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

CEO Interview: Sam Walsh. This edition of the CEO interview features Sam Walsh, the recently retired CEO, of Rio Tinto. Since taking up the CEO seat at Rio Tinto Sam has steered the business through a torrid industry downturn and firmly positioned them for new growth. (as featured in mining.com). On with the interview.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2011

It is a process. And no one needs to understand that more than the CEO. That leads us to Conaty and Charan’s first principle of the talent masters: The leadership team understands that the top priority for the future is developing the talent that will get it there. It simply must become part of the culture.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Delve into Richard's personal leadership journeys, including his methods for becoming effective leaders and inspiring others to do the same. Videos and Webinars] [Flexibility] Managing Change Learn about the change management process and ways to meet the challenge of leading people in turbulent times. In this digital event.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process. This periodic thought processes is a good reminder that I don't want to get myself into the same trap M [link] mikemyatt Hi Mark: Thanks for stopping by and sharing your insights. " Then I refocus on those things and get busy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

News Flash – If you have to look for leadership it doesn’t exist…Today’s post is not going to sit well with many in the leadership profession, but then many of my posts seem to have that effect. In my opinion the practice of leadership identification is simply based upon flawed business logic, and it is make-work in the purest form.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Critical thinking skills.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Take an assessment of what you do well and what you don’t and then apply rigor, process, structure and discipline to each of those areas. Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

Some of today's top CEOs were history, political science, sociology, chinese and music majors in college. A career advisor once told me that those who pursue liberal arts majors and enter finance, consulting or technology are not the exceptions. Let's hear it from her. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Critical thinking skills.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. If a business process seems broken, analyze each step. At Freeman, we streamline our supply chain by taking a beginner’s mindset and breaking down the process.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A better way to break up your steps would be to have three segmented goals (with sub-goals) that build up to your main goal, ownership of the Z4: Finance – a. Set up goal markers to check off during this process. Set up goal markers to check off during this process. When are the Finance and Research steps complete?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 31, 2012

Shelton, leadership coach, speaker, blogger, and author: As a leadership coach and consultant I am considered a thought resource in the area of developmental leadership. That is to say I spend my time working with reactive and unconscious behaviors that create unseen and unwanted outcomes within personal leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2019

These leadership characteristics can be further enhanced by humor. In the words of IDEO founder and CEO Dave Kelly, “If you go into a culture and there's a bunch of stiffs going around, I can guarantee they're not likely to invent anything.” During a difficult period for the company, the then CEO of Yahoo!

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

And more often than not I find people lose steam in pursuing their goals if they don’t go through a thoughtful goal setting process to arrive at them and keep them alive. The CEO didn’t have a clear answer. The more “yeses” you can answer, the better your goal setting process. But then I started push a little. I followed up. “I

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This process can last weeks or months. The other, soft DD, investigates the human element of an acquisition, such as culture and leadership. Using the right tools and processes, M&A professionals can maximize efficiencies, generate valuable insights, and ensure outcomes that benefit all parties involved.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. For a few years, this process worked well for us, and I took it on my own shoulders to grow in my knowledge first and then my role and leadership to include more. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago. People, Policies and Processes. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

As a CEO Coach I am often asked to provide counsel on the political hot potato de jure, and let me be perfectly clear that it is not only possible, but preferable, to successfully handle highly charged political topics without being politically correct. Are these extreme statements?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? Do your sophisticated screening processes do such a great job of filtering that blind you to new opportunities and critical information?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. My engagements with CEOs often focus on helping them to embrace change through disruptive innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 30, 2012

Leadership development and failure go hand in hand. It’s inevitable that in the process of learning, you’re bound to fall down and skin your knee. It’s inevitable that in the process of learning, you’re bound to fall down and skin your knee. "Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.".

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Don’t be quick to hire based upon gut feel, but rather take time in the interviewing process to let the prospective new hire get a feel for your culture and your company.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Working with a CEO of a large non-profit this was the exact question and challenge we faced. Share company struggles, successes and finances. Please share the finances in a manner that is easy to understand. As the Senior Leadership defining the large thematic goals is your job. What if they are wrong? how do we know?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. If a newly implemented business process has design flaws, will employees follow the process or circumvent it? Let me make my position very clear…design absolutely matters.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

This is so much the case that the most often overlooked aspect of strategic planning is adequately addressing contingencies as part of the planning process. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] " Thanks for adding to the conversation Jennifer.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills. " Thanks again for your contribution to the leadership community. one mouth.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being servant leaders as Chartered Managers In an opinion piece in the Daily FT , Ajantha Dharmasiri CMgr FCMI, president of CMI Sri Lanka , reflects on a successful year and assures that CMI Sri Lanka will continue to facilitate the processes of up-skilling, multi-skilling, and re-skilling managers. Read it here. Like this article?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

link] Tanveer Naseer Mike, your piece is a great reminder for organizations to not obsess over their processes or their top talent, but to focus instead on what the purpose is behind their organization. link] mikemyatt Well said Tanveer.

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