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Bigger is Not Always Better When Selecting a Search Firm to Partner With

N2Growth Blog

Her areas of expertise include talent operations and strategy, and C-suite executive recruitment, mainly but not exclusively in technology organizations. Vukelic served as the chief operating officer of N2Growth. If you want to see the best leaders, look for leaders rather than a checklist of skills and experience.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

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. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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5 Ways To Keep Women In Tech

The Horizons Tracker

“Women have almost caught up to men in the fields of technology, engineering and mathematics, right? The report suggests this is a huge amount of lost potential that the sector can ill afford at a time when skills shortages threaten to undermine attempts at digital transformation. Lost potential.

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. The case illustrates how information technology, innovatively, insightfully and courageously deployed, can change the structure of an industry.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Virtually every company we spoke to relied on nonprofit intermediaries to find candidates who had committed to training programs or apprenticeships in both hard and soft skills for the chance of stepping onto a career ladder. Year Up, a large source of opportunity-youth trainees in the U.S., now has more than 13,000 alumni across 16 cities.

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How to Capture Value from Collaboration, Especially If You’re Skeptical About It

Harvard Business Review

Only after seeing collaboration’s value for yourself will you put in the effort required to seek out cross-disciplinary projects and hone the skills necessary to collaborate effectively. Neither the true benefits of collaboration nor the required skill set adjustments, however, become apparent until you’ve made a go of it.

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How I Hired an Entirely Remote Workforce

Harvard Business Review

Many people are stunned to learn that I didn’t meet my chief technology officer in person until 2014 — three years after he started working for me. This relates to our core value of being able to quickly and effectively communicate what’s most important because this is a required skill when working remotely.