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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

Talent Trends: Emerging Leadership Skills for the Future The continual development of digital technology and automation in today’s corporate world demands a new paradigm in leadership. These traditional soft-skill qualities must now be enhanced with new hard skill sets to future-proof one’s leadership style.

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Diversity & Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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10 Steps to Creating a Talent Advantage

N2Growth Blog

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#.

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The “Business in Society” Imperative for CEOs

Harvard Business Review

On the one hand, protectionism, populism, and wide-spread distrust of business’s role in politics is threatening international corporations (think Carrier, Boeing, and tariffs/taxes for off-shoring and outsourcing). Similarly, whether the Brexit vote last June will help or hurt businesses in the UK and EU is still uncertain.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Recognizing that the company's command-and-control culture wouldn't work in the 21st century, he defined leadership as leading by values and created a unique collaborative organizational structure. Never confuse charisma with leadership. They listen as well as they speak. The key to that is to build a sustainable culture. Directness.

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Why – and How – to Hire Young People Without Diplomas

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, our study uncovered a range of successful approaches to employing young adults, from building in-house training to partnering with outsourced providers. Successful integration of young adults into your workforce requires both top leadership support, usually someone in the C-suite, and a day-to-day sponsor.

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The Future of Leadership Development

Great Leadership By Dan

A colleague from another business school recommended the book, The Future of Leadership Development, Corporate Needs and the Role of Business Schools , edited by IESE Business School Dean Jordi Canals. The use of coaching in leadership development programs. There are pros and cons to both group and individual leadership development.