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Annual Board Evaluations: A Gateway to Sustained Board Effectiveness

N2Growth Blog

This accountability not only enhances the organization’s overall governance but also ensures that board members continuously strive for excellence and remain committed to their fiduciary duties. This involves conducting thorough research and gathering information about the organization’s industry, market, and internal dynamics.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

” These are a bit extreme, but we’ve heard variations of these thoughts over the years in focus groups to survey a Client’s organizational culture. One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

And because of its ongoing commitment to culture, Zappos continues to perform well, even weathering an acquisition by Amazon—without doubt an extraordinarily different corporate culture. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. Zappos is one example.

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You Need a Community, Not a Network

Harvard Business Review

To get serious results from a network, you need commitment and a continuity of relationships among the participants. Network members readily participated in focus groups and collaborated with Gilbert’s group to develop new programs and store designs. Participants tend to belong for individualistic reasons.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. ’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights.