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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

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In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Customer Experience Management | N2Growth Blog

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I was recently asked the following question: “What is the difference between CRM and CEM, or is there any difference between the two?&# In a previous post I addressed the practice of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) in fairly great detail. As most of you know I am a huge fan of well conceived CRM initiatives.

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Gig Economy: A Cost-Cutting Measure or Adding Value to the Workforce?

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The gig economy has been in operation since labor unions lost their hold over the steel and oil industries and workers were contracted to work in the factories according to demand. Gig economy picked up pace after the recession of 2008 and 2009 when many people were laid off work and who had to be resourceful to find employment.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

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Well actually, no it’s not. I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&#

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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Show me someone who hasn’t made a bad decision and I’ll show you someone who is either not being honest, or someone who avoids decisioning at all costs, which by the way, constitutes a bad decision. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision.

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Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog

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My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success. Smart leaders will do everything in their power to keep a decreae in velocity from becoming a self imposed adversary due to a lack of contingency planning.