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

N2Growth Blog

In the previous three parts of this series, we realized the challenging factors around searching for and placing an ideal candidate to lead a private equity portfolio company. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.

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The Leaders Our Companies Need: Lessons We Can Learn from Historical Luminaries

Leading Blog

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Roosevelt’s energy and his manner of speaking had a certain charisma that Hoover’s lacked. Learning how to be good leaders doesn’t involve formulas or abstractions.

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The Art of a Seamless Board Transition: Mastering Succession Planning

N2Growth Blog

It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Developing an internal culture fosters dedicated leadership that is aligned with the organization’s mission and operations.

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Soft Skills

N2Growth Blog

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. This instance focuses on a handful of core demands specific to portfolio companies, aligned to soft skill talents. The Soft Skills.

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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

In the 1970s, the Ford Motor Company discovered that its budget car, the Pinto, was prone to burst into flames after low-speed rear-end collisions. The company could have corrected the problem for $11 per car but decided against the fix – until the problem mushroomed into a public relations disaster, and Federal regulators mandated a recall.

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CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

The best way to find out what makes a company successful is to look at the top. They are the founders and daily drivers of their companys corporate cultures. The singular characteristic that they all share is their companys success. Nowhere is this saying more true than in todays corporate world.

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Angel Capital vs. Venture Capital - CEO Blog - Time Leadership

CEO Blog

Their background in operations of a business often makes them more suitable to do the detail work. This added cash is often needed to get the company to profitability. VCs often think big which can inspire companies to be great. Many Angels are successful business people with deep experience on growing and scaling businesses.

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