N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Flexibility and Agility: Without the constraints of long-term contracts, interim leaders can be onboarded swiftly to address immediate needs, providing organizations with the flexibility to adapt quickly. Their contributions often extend beyond immediate problem-solving to influencing long-term success.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If youre delivering short text blasts to someone who loves deep discussions, theyll feel rushed and disrespected. When you make it easy for them to consume your requeston their own terms - you dramatically increase your odds of getting a yes. Keep it short and polite, but make it clear that this request matters.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Even before the global pandemic struck, many organizations and their leaders were limiting themselves to a short-term view at the expense of achieving any of their long-term goals. So how do leaders move past the current and persistent short-termism that’s often driven by a fear-based mindset, and instead embrace a.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 23, 2020

When he took over, Honeywell was plagued by short-termism. The problem was that he had to deliver something in the short-term to the investors for survival but had to set the company up for tomorrow too. Short- and long-term goals were more tightly intertwined than they appeared. He did both. It is a process.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Most of us have seen fear drive short-term results, but it does so at the cost of high employee burnout and turnover. 09:27 – Why fear works in the short term. Winning organizations know how to reframe fear into opportunities for learning and growth. They create resilient cultures of unfear.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2020

Winning Now, Winning Later : How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David Cote. Short-termism is rampant among executives and managers today, causing many companies to underperform and even go out of business. Dave Cote is intimately familiar with this problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2017

The first key to real encouragement is have a real understanding of which behaviors are driving your long-term results. For example, what behaviors lead to long-term customer retention? Sure it’s simpler to focus only on short-term outcomes. What leadership behaviors build employee loyalty and engagement?

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

And lets be honest: If your management style consistently makes people feel belittled or emotionally drained, you might churn out short-term results, but youll never sustain momentum or loyalty. Self-Awareness. It starts with YOU. Self-awareness is the cornerstone of emotional intelligence.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

With many of us now adapting to remote working as no longer a short-term response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the ‘new normal’ for how our organization will function for the next few years, there’s been more focus lately on how leaders and their employees are adapting to this. Click to continue reading.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve observed companies panicking and doing anything they can to manage short-term cash—and destroying hard-earned relationships at lightning speed. They are letting short-term financial objectives become the North Star in an effort to keep the lights on. If you don’t have a forever promise, you’re sunk.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

Short-Term Focus - It’s always urgent, and there’s never time for the long-term investment in people and processes that will impact the business. This can work for a week or so, but beyond that you’re doing substantial long-term damage to your team.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 13, 2025

Whats on the short list of things that , given the position Im in, that only I can do that are going to make the biggest difference in creating the one-year success picture? What do I need to let go of in my current operating rhythm to make room for the more important work that I need to pick up?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

By combining rigorous assessment techniques, global insights, and a commitment to client success, N2Growth ensures its clients are equipped with leaders capable of driving immediate and long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Interim executives are highly skilled and experienced individuals brought in at short notice to lead organizations during times of crisis, management transitions, or to spearhead major strategic initiatives. They provide rapid and effective leadership solutions during uncertain times and offer guidance to organizations.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 2) Dream aggressively quantitatively over a long-term horizon, tempered by economic factors at the “macro” level.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

45:50 Understanding the short-term and long-term benefits, and the metrics to measure the system before its development. 33:55 When when we’re thinking about how artificial intelligence can improve our business processes and decision-making, what are some ways we can be thinking about using it to its best effect?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 27, 2014

Short Term View- True collaborators value the relationship over the small stuff. Fuzzy Communication- Collaboration requires a constant flow of real-time communication. Don’t rely on email or chats, look in each other’s eyes, even if it’s over Skype.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Identifying, attracting, and retaining top healthcare executives who can harmonize quality care, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and long-term growth is no small task. Once the right candidate is identified, we support seamless onboarding and long-term retention strategies, ensuring organizational continuity and stability.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Many others fall short because of a lack of opportunity, capital, knowledge, or skills. Unfortunately, the bias toward short-term metrics can also make emotional intelligence a ‘nice to have rather than a requirement. ”. How successful you are is really a function of how well you deal with failure—and how much you learn from it.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

After that, panics were renamed — first to depression and then to the milder sounding term, recession. And in 1978, Congress added price stability and promotion of long-term growth to its mandate. Thirteen financial panics occurred from 1792 to 1896, and the last official panic occurred in 1907. The yield curve tops out.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

A well-written contract defines or explains each term or condition only once. Lesson: A profitable company may be chronically short of cash. Consequently, a business may be short of cash until payment is received. Those who are adverse to theory may thrive in business as long as the parameters familiar to them remain in place.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

Key Trends and Considerations In the last three years, there has been a noticeable shift towards shorter, more performance-driven executive terms. Another trend is the rise of interim or acting executives, who are appointed for shorter terms to address specific challenges or transitions.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

There’s no long-term planning; there’s no strategic prioritization of issues.” Organizations are constantly dealing with urgent short-term problems. Think in terms of continuous improvement. Tunneling is a condition where you find that “when people are juggling a lot of problems, they give up trying to solve them all.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 10, 2020

Whether thinking about the short-term need for decisions to be made or the long-term implications for […]. In a world of constant change where the status quo is a myth, making decisions are part of the lifeblood of any successful organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

They are focusing on long-term growth rather than short-term productivity. A couple of examples are the role of insecurity as a driving force behind striving for excellence and the importance of self-evaluation. 25:32-29:12: AI’s impact on the workplace is also scrutinized.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

When there is a good match, the worker is likely to be engaged with the job and happy, energetic, confident, and ready to commit to a productive long-term relationship. In short, a worker experiencing a major mismatch is likely to experience burnout.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from January 2024 that you will want to check out: 10 Ideas That Changed Our Lives by @SahilBloom Make like a chameleon – why situational leadership is key in 2024 by @suzimcalpine Seven Indications Your Team is Dysfunctional by @RonEdmondson Surviving and Thriving In The Age of AI : Useful Ideas for Founders Why America’s (..)

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Nurturing investments leads to lasting growth and stability, surpassing the fleeting advantages of short-term thinking. Prioritize health such as regular exercise, mindfulness and meditation, and nutritious eating habits, to pave the way for a better quality of life in the long term. Health and wellness? Financial investments?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2014

It’s almost always easier to say yes than no–in the short run. It’s okay to “no, I can’t do that right now, or under our current terms,” while saying yes to “I’d be happy to talk to you about that as phase 2.” Yes, it’s okay for you to treat me that way.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 12, 2025

Short-term plans distill into behaviors. Planning is talking, not doing. Acollective sigh of relief at the end of planning sessionspredicts disaster. Plans dont work, people do. You plan a disaster if you rely on plans made annually.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2021

While their ego-driven ambition may be effective in generating short-term gains, attaining goals is different from achieving growth. Contrast this approach with “ecosystem leadership,” a term coined by Otto Scharmer in his book, “Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

While he expected to have a short leadership leash when he first started, it blew his mind that he never once heard, “That’s great! Talk about the difference between “No, but” and “Yes, and” with new hires and longer-term staffers. Everyone seemed nice enough, but something unseen kept undercutting conversations and momentum.

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Decker Communication

MARCH 27, 2025

When the company faced manufacturing delays for a promising oncology therapy, leaders who had received this training could articulate a compelling narrative connecting short-term setbacks to long-term patient impact.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 19, 2023

I hope you’ll check it out as this is an important issue every leader needs to be mindful of if they want to be successful not just in the short-term, but over the long term as well. I explore these two trends in this latest edition of my Leadership Espresso Shot series on my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Leaders who are more people centric and who recognize that business is a long term game that can only be “won” if we have the right team in place to serve all our stakeholders. They acknowledge that if business is to thrive, decisions need to be made that consider the longer term aspects, rather than short term profits.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 17, 2025

A well-executed commercial plan fosters robust alignment between day-to-day operations and long-term corporate objectives. With a firm grasp of market indicators and a willingness to challenge the status quo, they design revenue models that blend short-term wins with longer-term objectives.

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