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Finance Executive Search: Investing in Leadership for Tomorrow

N2Growth Blog

Effective leadership is vital in finance and is crucial in guiding organizations toward success in a rapidly changing business landscape. Finance leaders are responsible for setting the vision and strategy of an organization, as well as building and leading high-performing teams.

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F1 Racing and the Insurance and Finance Industry: A Comparison of Trends and Challenges

N2Growth Blog

Today, I will highlight some similarities in the insurance and finance industry and contrast them to Formula 1. Formula 1 racing is an industry built on speed, innovation, and teamwork. Not only does diversity bring varied perspectives and ideas, but it also allows companies to understand better and serve their diverse customer base.

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The Poor State Of Gender Diversity In Financial Academia

The Horizons Tracker

The low level of gender diversity in upper echelons is well documented in a wide range of fields. Recent research shows that the problem is particularly bad in finance, where gender diversity is lower than in other academic disciplines.

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Diverse Teams Help Organizations Adapt To Change

The Horizons Tracker

A recent study from Carnegie Mellon suggests that diverse teams are more likely to make successful pivots than their more homogenous peers. The research reveals that businesses established in dynamic environments tend to have a longer survival rate when their founding teams exhibit greater functional diversity.

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Dive into the Role of the Chief People Officer in Today’s Workplace

N2Growth Blog

Today, Chief People Officers and CHROs are not only responsible for the high-value functions of talent acquisition and employee engagement, but they play a crucial role in shaping organizational culture, driving diversity and inclusion, and ethically leveraging technology for effective HR management.

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Boards Need To Up Their Game In Terms Of Cognitive Diversity

The Horizons Tracker

Diversity has long been recognized in terms of its importance to things like innovation and creativity, with research from MIT showing how cognitive diversity improves the profitability of organizations. Such diversity can have costs, however, as paper from Wharton illustrates. Constructive disagreement.

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5 Psychological Traits of Highly Innovative Organizations

Innovation Excellence

When creating an innovation team, we often put a lot of thought and effort into bringing the right functional expertise together. Making sure we have diverse marketing, design, engineering, product supply, finance, research and innovation working together early in the process is certainly smart.