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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

At N2Growth, we have guided executive-level candidates to genuine opportunities for years. Due Diligence: Research is Your First Line of Defense Before engaging with an executive search firm or recruiter, it is imperative to conduct comprehensive research to ascertain its credibility. LinkedIn or WhatsApp ).

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Unexpected Leadership Lessons that Mobsters Can Teach Lawful Leaders

Leading Blog

All firms must empower people with the knowledge and incentives to execute the task to benefit the organization. He is a globally recognized microeconomist and author of seven books and has taught organizational economics, accounting, and finance at the University of Rochester’s Simon Business School for more than forty years.

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Performance-Based Pay for Executives Still Works

Harvard Business Review

However, very little of the research they cite was actually conducted on business executives. But, for executives, you do have such a measure – the long-run stock price. In the long run, every executive decision will eventually show up in the stock price. Clearly, for lots of jobs, no such measure exists.

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A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact

Strategy Driven

While Cornell executive leadership can be exemplary, there were and still are times when units within this very large institution needed significant improvement. I co-conducted a professional peer review of a nearly identical campus on the west coast (size, structure, unions, facilities, budget, number of staff).

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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Are Business Schools Creating Higher-Ambition Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

For over 30 years I worked as a business school professor educating thousands of MBAs and executives. Higher-ambition leaders are able to integrate multiple business disciplines (strategy, ethics, marketing, finance and so on) into a coherent, systemic approach for building a great company.