N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Whether leading an emerging growth company or a large multi-national corporation, aside from the CEO , there is arguably no position that has impact and contribution like the CHRO. 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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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Probably not even in front of your senior leadership team or even in a one-to-one meeting with a key report. The post The six-minute leadership practice that might surprise you appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Here’s a question: where do you speak about strategy issues when you don’t know exactly what it is you want to say?

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2013

First Borders, then Barnes & Noble CEOs make the wrong leadership decisions. As the business grew, it was time for the Borders brothers to hire a professional CEO. Tom Borders told me that they decided to hire a CEO whose experience was in retailing versus a strategic marketing expert. While sales at U.S.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 10, 2012

We spend a lot of time here at MSL covering great leadership – servant leadership. For example, did you know bad leadership is partially to credit for the creation of Intel and the Silicon Valley? Shockley Fails at People Leadership. Fairchild Semiconductor Leadership Fails. William Shockley Unhappy at Bell.

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CEO Insider

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That’s exactly how I feel every time I connect with my leadership coach – […]. The post Taking the reins of my career and succeeding in the C-Suite through leadership coaching appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine. Think about the last compliment you got from a friend, colleague or even from the boss. How did it feel? Great, right?

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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

JUNE 2, 2015

A highly experienced nuclear power consultant, Ruth leads StrategyDriven's information technology and cyber security services. "We We are thrilled to have Ruth join our StrategyDriven team," says Nathan Ives, StrategyDriven President and CEO.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Of the array of skills that comprise leadership, the ability to craft and communicate strategic vision is simultaneously the most valuable and least well-practiced. That changed when I met retired Sensormatic CEO Bob Vanourek at the Leadership Forum at Sliver Bay. The following is a guest piece by Jeremey Donovan.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Now, I don’t want anyone to think that I don’t value information technology. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 19, 2012

For example, the CEO may have very different priorities than the VP of Human Resources. For example, Accounting, Finance and Information Technology teams. A priorities map reveals the network of priorities for people in your organization. Often, team members confuse a lack of understanding with a difference in priorities.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 27, 2011

And they came up with an informal company motto to signal their benign intent: "Don't be evil." Today, Google reaches billions of pages of content. . In 2001, Page and Brin hired their first CEO, Eric Schmidt, who had a Ph.D. They settled on an unusual power-sharing arrangement.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Tesla’s partners eventually sold Tesla Electric Light Company’s patents to George Westinghouse, CEO of the Westinghouse Electric Company. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Because of the web, social media, and advances in mobile and interactive communications and information technologies, the experiences of human beings are now at the heart of value creation.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Unlike factories, in the early 20th century, when Taylor called for the de-skilling of workers’ tasks and increased control by management, CEOs and top management executives have the unique opportunity to truly take advantage of each of their employees’ skills and talents. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Prior to joining Communispond, Bill was CEO of Digi-Block Inc., a K-12 education publisher focusing on mathematics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2014

CEOs Get Paid Too Much According to Pretty Much Everyone in the World. Leadership & Managing people Information & technology' How the Precipitous Rise in Inequality Happened, and How It Is Putting Us All at Risk. Profits Without Prosperity. The Rise (and Likely Fall) of the Talent Economy. How Netflix Reinvented HR.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Researchers at the IT Leadership Academy are doing just that in Global 2000 enterprises. When you are gone, will analytics be first in the hearts and minds of your CEO, your CMO and your board of directors? The CIO’s response tends to be “reports” (61 percent of the population).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

On a far larger scale and more caustically, former JCPenney and Macy's CEO Allen Questrom ripped into current JCPenney CEO (and Apple Store innovator) Ron Johnson's turnaround strategy for the struggling retailer. What kind of leadership do you think leads to a sustainable innovation culture? The particular object of his ire?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

Recently I’ve been having a very hard time talking to students, executives, and business leaders about information technology. This new leadership role is captured in the emerging title of chief business technology officer. He believes technology leadership is about to undergo a shakeout.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The first one is the most straightforward: they make smart investments in digital technology to innovate their customer engagements , and the business processes and business models that support them. Digital Masters build strong leadership capabilities to envision and drive transformation within their companies and their cultures.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It is time to connect these groups, elevate analytics to a strategic corporate practice, and assign executive leadership to oversee it. In most cases today, the CAO doesn’t report directly to the CEO, but to another member of the C-suite. Information & technology Leadership' Where should the CAO report?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete" was a trailblazing HBR article by Warren McFarlan back in the early 1980s. Their strategic use of information technology (IT) presaged the dot.com boom of the 1990s when the Internet made this kind of online ordering commonplace. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 18, 2017

When I spoke with John Hass, the CEO of Rosetta Stone, about what his company does, his focus wasn’t just on learning languages. Leaders like Ellyn Shook, the chief leadership and human resources officer at Accenture, actually carry around “dumb phones,” which don’t have any apps and can’t send or receive email.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

It is a conversation about the increasing importance of information technology and the role it must assume in every enterprise, regardless of size, industry or geography. Key findings from our research: Almost half of CEOs feel IT should be a commodity service purchased as needed. Here''s a start to that conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

A retired CEO, Jerry was a sad, aging man who reflected constantly on the emptiness of his life. To begin with, people usually attain top leadership positions just when the effects of aging become more noticeable. The case of Ronald, former head of Asia of a global information technology firm, illustrates what companies can do.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

It’s necessary to have a multidisciplinary team, with clinical, analytics, data science, information technology, and behavior change skill sets available from start to finish. Just as important as frontline buy-in is engagement from the top, especially from the CEO. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2013

Managing this rapid change and fostering innovation while "keeping the trains running on time" is the primary leadership role required of any CIO, new or old. Additionally, we must support the research needs of our faculty by ensuring that we''re providing world-class technological research capabilities. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

to new CEOs with a vision their stakeholders won’t rally behind that won’t guarantee results anyway. Much has been made of the distinction between leadership and management. Evidence of managerial experience (and what was learned from it) would be a good prerequisite for leadership. Execution Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The new CEO, John Flannery, is focused primarily on cutting costs. Other senior executives have left as well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

There are new types of insurance companies such as Oscar ; novel provider organizations such as OneMedical , IoraHealth , and ChenMed ; and new health information technology companies such as Castlight , Vital , and WellFrame that aim to use technology to improve care and value. People leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

Still others move on to business roles including CEO. But there is another leadership role that has arisen in many organizations in recent years: the Chief Digital Officer (CDO). Diverse companies are responding to the digital leadership challenge in different and dynamic ways. If your CIO is good, look to him for help.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

So new CEO Kent Thiry set about building a different kind of company. At a recent conference, Dell founder Michael Dell spoke of the billions of patients who received better health care and the billions of students worldwide who had access to better education as a result of Dell’s information technologies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Even before its accounting travails, a former chairman had sharply criticized former CEO Sir Terry Leahy , who had led Tesco to market dominance and worldwide admiration, for leaving a shambles of a legacy. Information & technology Leadership Retail' Or is it probability?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. These are the qualities I believe made him the best CEO, so far, of the 21st century: Humility and openness. It is not about you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Study the leadership team. Does the CEO have experience starting companies? Competition Information & technology Strategy' Listening to the spokesperson gives you insight into how they’re positioning. What are the talking points they use? What seems to be the primary focus? Where did those leaders go to school?

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