N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Image credit – Freepik Benefits of Having HR as a Strategic Partner HR as a strategic partner can mean many different things for an organization according to the area it invests the resources in. Strategic HR can attract top talent, ensuring the organization has the right people in key positions.

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HR Digest

JUNE 30, 2023

This is where strategic planning and a data-driven approach come into play. Additionally, hiring temporary workers for short-term projects can help manage workload fluctuations without the long-term commitment of permanent employees. But how can you ensure that you are making the right cost-cutting decisions?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Here is the rub and the reason why adopting this principle is so critical: in our experience, the priority initiatives turn out to be on new product, service, customer, and technology initiatives accompanied by an assumption that the organization has the capabilities to execute them. Focus on Advantage. Nothing new here, right?

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

In terms of the underlying psychological driver, leaders need to understand that Self-Starters fundamentally lack patience and are always thinking – in the shower, during a run or over their Saturday morning coffee. Engagement is concerned with the level of effort people put forth at work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. Once the decision is made to hire a new CEO, the founder-CEO and board should work together, ideally over a six-month period, to strategically plan the transition.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

For example, one CEO of a large technology firm oscillated between major expansions (e.g. This is all right as long as they explain the rationale behind their actions. Strategic plans will always need adjustment, learning, and iteration, and there will always be new opportunities and approaches cropping up.

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