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Management Tools For Leaders: Red Ocean/Blue Ocean Strategy

Rich Gee Group

This involves the commoditization of the industry where everyone is competing primarily on price — the key goals are to beat the competition and exploit existing demand. Great examples of Red Ocean companies are McDonald’s and Southwest Airlines. Great examples of Blue Ocean companies are Apple and Netflix.

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Goal Setting vs. Goal Sitting

Chris Brady

Perhaps the best course of action (and I can hardly believe I'm writing the words) is to line up with everyone else and set some 2011 goals for ourselves. So how can we set goals that won't disappear faster than a politician's promise? Goals must be specific 2. Goals must be written down 3.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

A great example of this would be carving out time in your already too busy schedule to mentor someone in your organization with great potential. " If the goal is to get somewhere the mouse is efficiently ineffective. I can use a hand grenade to kill a mosquito. It ain't efficient but it sure is effective.

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Strategizing for Success: Keys for Planning Annual Sales & Marketing Goals, part 1 of 2

Strategy Driven

Creating your plan is largely a matter of asking and answering a series of questions that help you identify your sales and marketing goals and other financial goals and then verbalize steps to achieve those goals. You can break each of these goals up into more specific areas. Supplementary Goals in Other Areas.

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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If all enterprises had socially acceptable values and based all behavior on those values, how would that have changed the outcomes of things like, for example, Enron Corporation, Bernard L. These are some examples of why I think values and their purpose is essential to any discussion of vision and mission.

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Brand Exposure

N2Growth Blog

Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal. I’ll close today’s post with a prime example of personal branding overexposure that while a pet-peeve of mine, will certainly draw the ire of many.

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The Lost Art of Brevity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Let me begin clearly stating that it is not my goal to be perceived as a word-basher. Probably the greatest example of the power of brevity comes from what is widely considered to be the greatest speech in American history: “The Gettysburg Address.&#

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