N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

It prepares for the inevitability of change and ensures that operations will remain uninterrupted while minimizing potential hiccups that may come with the transition of power. Developing an internal culture fosters dedicated leadership that is aligned with the organization’s mission and operations.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

To ensure that your corporate purpose remains at the forefront, connecting everyday tasks to the broader vision is vital, redefining success metrics beyond financial targets, and celebrating the impact beyond the organization’s walls is vital. When leaders exemplify the company’s purpose, it encourages employees to follow suit.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Accenture Strategy defines trust as “a consistent experience of competence, integrity, honesty, transparency, commitment, purpose and familiarity.” Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2024

In today’s evolving and emotionally intelligent professional landscape, leadership isn’t solely about possessing innate qualities or holding authoritative positions. Leadership requires continuous growth, adaptation, and a willingness to learn from one’s experiences.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2024

Identifying Growth-Stage Leadership to Drive Innovation in Life Sciences Effective executive search partners play a pivotal role in identifying, attracting, and assessing the leadership best aligned to drive growth and innovation, all the more important in highly dynamic industries like life sciences.

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QAspire

APRIL 8, 2024

During our conversation he mentioned, “Our biggest enemy is not our competitors but our own complexity as an organization in form of organizational design, structures, processes, culture, systems, tools, scale and metrics.” Throughout my career, I have consistently seen increasing friction as an organization scales and grows.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2021

Most of them tell me that they spend most of their time looking at performance indicators - Summaries of key metrics - Spreadsheet data - Other dashboard tools. Monitoring performance metrics is a good thing. Yet sometimes internal systems present metrics that are easy for us to monitor but aren’t the right things for us to monitor.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

He opened the dialogue, saying he and his leadership team had put a lot of thought into where they want to take their bank, and the vision they committed to was to deliver top decile ROE, ROA and topline revenue growth: a quintessential example of focusing on effect, not cause.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Strategic Sort: Deciphering What Matters Most Picture this: Your boss slides over a scroll of 27 KPIs and you’re playing a corporate game of ‘Which Metric is Least Tragic?’. If you’re up to your neck in it, asking for help isn’t a white flag; it’s a strategy. “I I have an idea.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

While technical competencies and leadership acumen are essential in any executive role, nonprofits often require additional skills specific to their sector. While particular skills, such as leadership, strategic thinking, and communication, are essential for any executive role, specific competencies are necessary in the nonprofit sector.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Caution: do not obsess over and single metric or forge to update your metrics as you grow. #7 Surprisingly, full-time commitment to a business venture did not turn out to be the winning strategy. But if that’s the only practice you’re getting, chances are you’re only operating at a fraction of your potential.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This means having a couple of short meetings with the leadership team to talk about the issues that recently cropped up. . Apparently, operations managers were suddenly being pressured by accounting heads to justify the ROI for purchases. . Strategy Day. Operations Day. Next, go on a two-day strategic retreat.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re employed in a technology-first corporation, oversee operations in a retail chain or run a healthcare organization, every sector demands effective leadership. Even in situations where a person has been in leadership roles for years, the need to constantly be learning and upskilling never disappears.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. In today’s post I’ll look at the topic of resourcing as a key success metric for anyone in a leadership position. The essence of Leadership is not found in doing things yourself, but in teaching others how to do things better than you ever could.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2017

But in a National Operations role, I also had responsibility for ‘fleet’–yup, the trucks.” As an executive, your job is all about strategy and execution across a large scope and scale. When you’re not close to the business it’s easy to look at a good metric and say “Hmmm, looks great.”

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

HR strategies for business growth focus on the hiring and retention of the right talent, but they can also involve active participation in key business decisions by bringing in a grounded angle to the discussion. Employee Hiring and Retention Undeniably, HR strategies for growing businesses begin with hiring and retention.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

The year demands that the pulse of innovation beats strongest within the corridors of a dynamic and future-focused HR strategy. Retention strategies demand scrutiny. Investing in leadership development and ongoing learning opportunities empowers employees to fill the shoes of departing leaders seamlessly.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

” But the big leadership challenge is finding and bringing purpose to life. Ranjay Gulati’s new book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , brings a fresh perspective to this core leadership and culture development topic. Let purpose drive your strategy and operations.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Quantitative Goals When you set goals that are quantitative, they’re going to focus on things like financial results, operational metrics, customer dynamics, or quality. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World. You can typically track these types of goals pretty easily.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

Key Components of an Impactful People Management Strategy To overcome these challenges and excel in people management, leaders should develop a comprehensive and impactful people management strategy. Here are the key components of such a strategy: Clarity Clarity is essential in people management.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 31, 2011

So the question is, if Leadership by Osmosis never works, why is this technique still around? “We’re in the dark here&#. “Nobody knows what’s going on&#. Why do I still hear those classic lines from many of my friends? And oh yes, I asked. I traveled many thousands of miles to test our knowledge absorption.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In today’s post I’ll take a look at timing as key success metric… As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.&# So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

But you need the right culture for this approach, the right metrics (hint, the main KPI isn’t topline revenue) and the right resources. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. And you need leadership that has a longer time horizon so you can invest in relationships.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

They make sure to embed their purpose in the very operating system of their organizations. Deep purpose leaders understand that this way of operating will inevitably lead to short-term trade-offs among stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers, investors and society at large. Would you talk a little about these?

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Six Disciplines

JANUARY 12, 2012

IndustryWeek recently reported on a survey it conducted with TBM Consulting about the impact of continuous-improvement programs on three financial metrics: anticipated revenue growth, operating income growth, and cash flow over the past year.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2016

Management observation programs serve to reinforce leadership expectations throughout the workforce. This reinforcement not only includes standards associated with the performance of day-to-day operational activities but also manager and supervisor performance of observations. Not a client? We'd love to have you on board.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Mastery in anything, from sports to the arts to leadership, requires well-practiced capability mediated by a highly mature interiority—a well-honed Outer Game arising on a highly evolved Inner Game. Masterful leadership is Conscious Competence. Great leadership transcends skill, capability, and competence. Leadership Process.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. FACT : Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic of Emotional IQ or what’s referred to as EQ in recent years.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. If you’re willing to strip away all the excuses, explanations, rationalizations, and justifications for business failures, and be really honest in your analysis, you’ll find only one plausible reason - poor leadership. Why do businesses fail?

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2023

“Whereas high CSE CEOs are attentive to their firm’s competitive environments and calculated in their risk-taking, CEOs with an inflated sense of self lead their organizations in pursuit of grandiose strategies with little regard for strategy-environment alignment,” the researchers explain.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

This may sound harsh, but the truth often is… I’ve witnessed far too many people in positions of leadership that wouldn’t recognize an opportunity if it hit them squarely in the face. If you cannot recognize, attract, and acquire opportunity you should not be in a leadership position. Click To Tweet.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

They use the term ‘metrics’ out of context. Their metrics are arbitrary, and they jerk the chains of sellers with figures that are unsubstantiated. Metrics are easily skewed and do not reflect the overall customer satisfaction. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations.

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HR Digest

APRIL 8, 2023

As a result, Human Resources (HR) has a crucial role to play in ensuring that CSR initiatives are integrated into an organization’s operations and culture. HR’s Role in Corporate Social Responsibility HR plays a critical role in integrating CSR initiatives into an organization’s culture and operations by supporting environmental impact.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

According to CMI’s recent research in collaboration with the Social Market Foundation , more than one in four NHS managers said senior leadership in their healthcare organisations was “ineffective”. At CMI, we disagree: we believe that better equipped managers means better performing public services. Read the full story here.

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