N2Growth Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

Nary a week passes where I don’t hear from a CEO who’s grappling with this social media conundrum: should I, or shouldn’t I? We have a social media practice at N2growth, I use social media, and all of the CEOs I coach are participating at some level in social media. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Guest post by Dave Yarin: It was April 2010, and a Fortune 500 CEO would utter one of the most ill advised yet memorable lines in corporate history. 1 He had succeeded John Browne in 2007 as CEO following Browne''s prostitution and perjury scandal, along with leaving BP with a checkered safety record.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 3, 2016

Do you have “still face” managers in your organization? By still face managers, I mean supervisors whose lack of emotion makes it difficult for them to connect and to get people fired up. Sitting in the audience was a CEO who recognized that she had a still face manager in her organization. the amygdala).

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil? There is not an absence of fear, but the management of fear. They are prepared.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

A formidable board delineates clear expectations and periodically reviews the performance of the CEO and other apex leaders. Moreover, the board’s critical role extends to risk management, ensuring robust processes are in place to identify, assess, and mitigate risks, bolstering the organization’s success trajectory.

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HR Digest

JULY 4, 2023

When it comes to building a robust company culture, it’s not just the CEO’s show to run or the HR department’s responsibility to shoulder. The Old Guard: The Top-Down Approach Once upon a time, company culture was more of a top-down decree , a legacy passed down from the CEO’s ivory tower.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed. You’d think a company drilling on the ocean’s floor would be adept in risk management planning.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Robust supply chain leadership ensures effective oversight and management of the end-to-end supply chain processes, from procurement to delivery. It involves strategic decision-making, risk mitigation, and fostering collaboration across different functions and stakeholders.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 28, 2022

This has been driven by the recognition of the importance of employee health for engagement, productivity, and risk management, along with lowering healthcare insurance costs. The pandemic has led to an undeniable awareness of the need for a new C-suite leader, the CHO or the Chief Health Officer.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 7, 2021

Disruptions across the world are spurring changes in risk oversight and leading many organizations to think long and hard about adding a CRO. The RIMS 2020 Enterprise Risk Management Benchmark […]. Consider the numbers: LinkedIn reports the number of CROs in the U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The manager or leader who demands perfection creates an environment of fear. Bill Wooditch Wooditch is the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises, a risk-management and. Some companies create systems and embrace the theory of their system as a way to avoid failure.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with turning the hiring process over to HR, most of them still seem to acquiesce and do exactly that…&# Who should do the hiring?&# is a question that more CEOs should spend time pondering. Outsourced recruiting is very effective and affordable if managed properly.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Let’s consider a few examples.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

We have created legions of risk managers posing as leaders, when what we need are more leaders who understand how opportunity adds value, shapes culture, attracts talent, and brings about transformative change. A ready – fire – aim approach to opportunity management usually fails to hit the target.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." But for certain categories of risk, this is a false and dangerous assumption.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 28, 2019

Bill Wooditch Wooditch is the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises, a risk-management and corporate insurance firm. Cultivate allies and advocates who can help you see the blind spots. Discover that nonchoice is also a choice and, why sometimes nonchoices are the best bet.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

PG&E could still have conducted intelligent risk management in the interest of its own shareholders. • Federal Emergency Management Agency's post-Katrina updated material on incident management systems , which includes free online training. The choice facing you is how to act to measure and proactively manage this risk.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2020

The manager or leader who demands perfection creates an environment of fear. Bill Wooditch Wooditch is the founder and CEO of Wooditch Enterprises, a risk-management and. Some companies create systems and embrace the theory of their system as a way to avoid failure.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Last year I met with Jim Goodnight, SAS Institute’s founder and CEO, to learn more about his leadership and SAS Institute’s culture. Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of SAS Institute, is not one of them. Everyone there knows that Goodnight, in addition to his CEO duties, spends time writing code like many of them.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

In emergency management, Hurricane Sandy stands out. How do organizations with a culture of agility handle risk differently than others? Risk management is now a fully-developed rich scientific discipline. Of course, being good at risk management – mitigating threats and creating resilience – is necessary for agility.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Jim Goodnight, co-founder and CEO of SAS Institute, is not one of them. He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

There are a variety of places where corporations and boards look for potential CEOs, but the leagues of management consulting generally isn’t one of them. So why should a company consider hiring a management consultant to be their CEO? Did you find any characteristics that set effective consultants-to-CEOs apart?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. The CEO is made stronger with a good C-suite team. Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Be mentored by others.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. Might this difference in education influence how CEOs behave when it comes to setting a course and trimming corporate sails? More Litigation, or Less?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

companies, the guidelines contain helpful (although not entirely novel or innovative) recommendations such as compensating outside directors with stock, giving non-executive directors unfettered access to management, and discouraging the practice of earnings guidance. Intended to strengthen corporate governance at U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2023

How can one company best hold itself accountable for its role in the opioid crisis?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Previous to our technological advancements, the only way businesses could manage their multiple consumer platforms, numerous transactional tasks, and recover from data emergencies was to outsource to a variety of vendors. Richard Milam is the president and CEO of EnableSoft. Employ Internal Multisourcing. About the Author.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Its very business revolves around breaking down barriers and reconnecting the world’s financial system by providing risk-managed banking services to emerging markets around the world. Fintech startup Elemental Financial appreciate this all too well.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In an uncertain and volatile world, risk management — a previously unsexy subject for many managers who created annual updates or reviews of their company's risk management plans — is now a front-burner issue for many. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 12, 2019

Inspirational leadership wisdom came awhile back from Bahram Akradi, the CEO of Life Time Fitness. From that health club's monthly fitness magazine, Experience Life , Akradi says: Once we get comfortable in our habitual patterns, we may fail to notice when they have outworn their useful purpose, or when new alternatives might serve us better.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. Risk escalation and whistleblower processes can enhance monitoring and transparency. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2019

Inspirational leadership wisdom came awhile back from Bahram Akradi, the CEO of Life Time Fitness. From that health club's monthly fitness magazine, Experience Life , Akradi says: Once we get comfortable in our habitual patterns, we may fail to notice when they have outworn their useful purpose, or when new alternatives might serve us better.

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Magazine CEO Leadership Risk Management 50