N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 3, 2011

In this world I’ve learned that there are very few quick fixes, despite what you might hear from marketers. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Patience and perseverance. You must have both. Together, and at the same time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

This one is from January, 2009. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. What do you think? Do we have responsibility for bad leaders?

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Apparently he didn’t care and the next thing you know I was indeed running the operations of that company. Way different – a professional sports team. Because like most other red-blooded men I am quite fond of sports, the thought of being associated with it at that level was intoxicating. I took that offer. Popularity: 5% [ ?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. He was, and still is, my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator mentor as I was learning my way around that instrument.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 24, 2010

When this happens they aren’t motivated to update their headshots, create video marketing or present themselves as speakers. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Energy levels are also affected. All Rights Reserved.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

In late 2009 one of my friends from college told me he had signed up and was training for an Olympic distance triathlon in an effort to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle. My experience ended up being so overwhelmingly positive, I was immediately hooked on the sport (and yes, I beat him!!). I don’t operate that way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. Whether in sports or business, a team is a group of people with a shared goal. Yet teamwork across organizational boundaries is unnatural. You need a way to maintain the extended team identity.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

There was no need to make a telephone call to a distant operator; all the farmer needed to do was log in and order. Farmers, alone for hours on end in the fields driving their tractors, looked forward to calling the operator to place their orders. AgriCo’s online platform failed dramatically. They enjoyed the company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

SAP's senior management asked Ferose to shore up employee morale at SAP Labs India, where the attrition rate had reached a painful 19% in 2009. At 35 years old, Ferose was the youngest-ever managing director of a global multinational firm in India — overseeing a staff of 4,000.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and post-game: a matter of consequence. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2010

Are you absolutely sure every employee in sales, production, operations, marketing, etc., Source: Entrepreneur, March 2009 Be A Visible Leader Walk around. MacKay writes, "Common sense, thorough research and sound advice should allay your fears to a reasonable level." Take a moment. thanks for a great reminder!

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