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Beyond Metrics – Why Human Capital is Key in Founding and Leadership Team Assessments

N2Growth Blog

Evaluating founding and leadership teams of portfolio companies and acquisition targets has become crucial for investment and operating partners. As businesses grow and adapt to shifting market demands, the strength of the leadership team often dictates a company’s ability to scale and succeed.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zero-day exploits, breaking into Japan, algorithmic VC investing

TechCrunch

We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The articles should have been written on the topic of poor leadership. Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. A bad attitude isn’t something good leaders take lightly.

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Unicorns wanted: Navigating the Product Owner shortage in IT

CIO

You’ve seen the virtues of transforming from a project to a product operating model: value-driven work, delivered by dedicated teams rather than through projects led by disparate team members. The unicorn, if not sourced with proper due diligence, will be viewed only as a creature in fairy tales. Let’s start with culture.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.

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Editor's Soapbox: Y2K25

The Daily WTF

Nothing bad happened, and we all overreacted. And over the past 70 or so years of software development, things have changed a lot. But without real, concerted IT efforts, a lot of realistically bad things could have happened- systems we depend on could have stopped functioning. Survival guides abounded. Technology changes.

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Chief Procurement Officer Search: Securing Your Supply Chain Leadership

N2Growth Blog

Furthermore, successful CPOs are exceptional leaders who inspire and motivate their teams to achieve excellence. An effective CPO values diversity and inclusion, creating a culture of inclusivity that attracts and retains top talent.