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Beyond Recruitment: N2Growth’s COO Search Solutions Enhance Organizational Performance

N2Growth Blog

Operating as a vital conduit between the various departments within an organization and its highest levels of management, their responsibilities include translating strategic goals into workable business plans and supervising the day-to-day operations to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

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Salary Negotiation Tips for Executives

N2Growth Blog

For employers, the goal of compensation is to buy labor that is more valuable to the employer than capital expended for the purchase. For employees, the goal of compensation is to sell labor that is less valuable to the employee than capital acquired from the sale. What if there’s a market downturn? Why compensation?

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Whole Foods Market Needs More than Price-Tinkering

Harvard Business Review

To be clear, Whole Foods’s financials are still healthy: in FY 2013, its revenue was $12.9B, EBITDA $1.2B, and earnings per share increased by 19%. Whole Foods has done a great job of cultivating the organic and all-natural market. As a result, its stock dropped by 19% in one day. First, its success has drawn in new competition.

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How Mature is Your Risk Management?

Harvard Business Review

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? They clearly generate higher growth in revenue, EBITDA, and EBITDA/EV. Companies in the top 20% of risk maturity generated three times the level of EBITDA as those in the bottom 20%.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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What to Do If a Conversation Is Turning Loud and Aggressive

Harvard Business Review

But the potential upside made mouths water as they considered the untapped market potential that had been neglected by the current owners, for whom the business unit was a side line. If even 10% of those executives leave in the first year of this transaction, we will fall far short of our EBITDA target.”

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

Synthesize Goals – Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), you need to reduce it to “bite sized&# pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization. Ak January 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm Thank you Terry. Fantastic post. rm on a consistent basis. These leaders ?nd