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Executive Talent Trends: Navigating a Changing Landscape in 2024

N2Growth Blog

These traditional soft-skill qualities must now be enhanced with new hard skill sets to future-proof one’s leadership style. On the one hand, automation at the top tier brings the potential to focus on value-added tasks, mitigate human error, and enhance productivity – aspects that seem enticing to many organizations.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill.

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Who's In Charge?

N2Growth Blog

I’m always amazed at the number of organizations that charge sub-par leaders with mission critical tasks and then wonder why they failed to meet their objectives. The most important decision a leader can make with regard to any implementation, initiative, project, objective, goal, task, etc.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Why we need Help to Hire One of the priorities of Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Spring Budget is increasing productivity by boosting skills and getting the economically inactive, particularly the over-50s, back into work. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

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Going Beyond: N2Growth’s Holistic Approach to CRO Search

N2Growth Blog

It involves thoroughly understanding the company’s objectives, culture, and dynamics. The cornerstone attributes in a prospective CRO are leadership, strategic thinking, pragmatism, adaptability, integrity, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Such information may lie beyond a typical interview or background check scope.

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Dealing with Conflict | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Here’s the thing - leadership and conflict go hand-in-hand. Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. The way to avoid conflict is to help those around you achieve their objectives.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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