N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Importance of Healthcare Executives Healthcare executive search is critical in ensuring organizations have the right leaders at the helm. In an industry as complex and rapidly evolving as healthcare, having strong executive leadership is more important than ever. These leaders not only drive the strategic direction of healthcare organizations but also shape the culture, guide decision-making, and inspire teams to deliver the highest quality outcomes possible.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Growth requires self-reflection. Do you actually deliver the goods? Could you have blind spots? Are you the real deal? Self-reflection questions that keep you on track.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Role of Executive Search Firms in the Finance Industry Executive search firms play a crucial role in the ever-evolving landscape of the finance industry. These firms’ expertise and extensive networks help organizations identify and attract top talent for critical leadership roles. Finding the right leaders in an industry that demands excellence, strategic vision, and a deep understanding of financial markets can drive success and stay ahead of the competition.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 24, 2023

"In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks." — Warren Buffett Ah, the career transition! For some, it's a joyous leap into a new professional universe. For most, however, it's more like trying to scale Mount Everest without a map or a guide. A career transition isn't just about shifting from Job A to Job B.

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Advertiser: Paycor

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leading effectively requires emotional intelligence, which involves being able to recognize, understand, and manage one’s own emotions as well as other people’s emotions. A leader with high emotional intelligence can build strong relationships, build positive working environments, and achieve results. However, leaders with low emotional intelligence may struggle in these areas.

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David A Fields

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Watching the Dunning-Krueger Effect in action can range from amusing to frustrating to downright frightening. The impact on your consulting firm is very real because it affects your target market and also your consulting team (including you). What is the Dunning-Krueger Effect? Your ten year-old, having watched you drive from their car seat, and with … Continued The post Oh No!

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Mental health professionals constantly warn us against turning into workaholics but despite our best efforts, responsibilities take over and push us away from finding a healthy work-life balance. Most of us spend more of our lives wondering how to balance work and life than seeing any success in it, and over time, this affects both our productivity and our overall health.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Succeeding as a driving instructor in the UK’s competitive market relies heavily on building a loyal student base through referrals and reputation. While expertise remains vital, implementing creative differentiation makes you memorable when students are comparing options. Here are impactful ways instructors can stand apart. Highlight Specialised Skill Sets Tout any niche skills or accreditations that demonstrate advanced capabilities instructing unique student segments like teens, seniors, or d

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

CEOs are only as strong as the teams they lead, so it’s vital that leadership teams not only feature the right individuals, but that those individuals work effectively together. In The Next Leadership Team , the University of Zurich’s Thomas Keil joins Marianna Zangrillo to outline the best way to ensure that the right leadership teams are forged.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Do you have a mission to spread God’s word? Do you have a passion for preaching? If that is the plan, then you better start having people attending church. But in this busy world where technology is at the forefront of everyone’s view, it might seem challenging. Fear not you can make technology work for you instead of seeing it as an obstacle.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Curbside recycling can offset greenhouse gas emissions from landfill-bound waste, according to a recent study from the University of Florida. The authors examined the economic and environmental value of community recycling efforts and compared them to other climate change mitigation practices. Their conclusion? Recycling offers a comparable or even superior return on investment to strategies like transitioning to electric vehicles or purchasing green power, which utilizes renewable energy source

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 24, 2023

How do we give constructive criticism? It’s something all of us see and want to share, but how do we do it in a way that actually helps? Constructive: Serving a useful purpose; tending to build up. Criticism: The act of passing judgment as to the merits of anything. You’ve heard the term. As a leader, I hear it all the time. So, what does “constructive criticism” mean?

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2023

At last! Someone has been hired to fill the position that was vacant much longer than anticipated. The team has been strained in the wait, so they and their leader are excited to put the new employee to work. Here’s to hoping the hire lasts more than three months … which is more than the last one did. This scene is repeated more times than we can believe.

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Niagara Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Did you know that 70% of the variance in the level of engagement from one employee to the next can be attributed to who their direct leader is? While many believe that employee engagement is relegated to the HR department, leaders play a significant role in how engaged their team members are.

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Advertiser: Paycor

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By: Colleen Jones Recently I was talking to a friend in HR who laughingly told me that she had spent the week at work with a fake smile on her face and a primal scream constantly wailing in her head. Why? She has been having the same conversation over and over again for the past … Are You in the Danger Zone? Read More » The post Are You in the Danger Zone?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency. They argue that most big organizational problems deserve a more urgent response — a metabolic rate that honors the frustration, mediocrity, and pain of the status quo.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Think of the people you idolize. Why do they impress you? Is it the possessions they’ve acquired, the power they’ve secured, or the fame they’re enjoying? Are you in awe of them because they’ve been able to achieve what most people can only dream about? On the other hand, when you put their accomplishments aside, are they good people? Do they: Live an honorable life?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Handling scope creep is one of the most challenging – and important — aspects of a project manager’s role. This often means saying “no” when stakeholders request additional features or changes. In this article, the author outlines practical strategies for how to push back on more work in a way that maintains your relationship with the requester, whether that’s the project sponsor, a customer, or another stakeholder.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In an era of technological advancement, it is crucial to question who benefits from these innovations. This inquiry is particularly relevant in the context of automation and artificial intelligence (AI), according to renowned economists Professor Simon Johnson and Professor Daron Acemoglu from MIT. In their newly released book, “ Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity ,” the authors delve into the historical distribution of benefits from technologic

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors. Traditional approaches, such as the stage-gate process, while effective at incremental improvements, don’t work as well when it comes to breakthrough innovations or attempts to change established behaviors.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Today’s workers increasingly expect their employer to play a role in improving mental health. But with five different generations coming together in the workplace, who were all raised with different expectations about how to talk about mental health challenges at work, it’s no wonder that it’s a tricky topic for managers to navigate. But one thing is clear: Future leaders — and workers — are demanding a level of vulnerability that’s new, uncomfortable, and 100% necessary.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

What does it take to innovate in a large, established organization?

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Advertiser: Paycor

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2023

INSEAD professor Erin Meyer explains how to offer advice across cultures, ages, and genders.

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