N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

When you think of Apple you immediate think of a company that has built a strong brand around quality design. Largely due to the iPod’s strong integrated design qualities it is the dominant brand in its class, commands a pricing premium, and has developed an extremely loyal and satisfied customer base.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2010

not aligning middle managers with vision at the top? poor communications and expectations management? effective and right management can go a long way. During my early days in diamonds industry, I was working with Lakhi group. By Anil Kumar, July 23, 2010 @ 8:48 am Awesome!!! setting wrong examples?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

As of October 2008, the site had more than 30 million registered users spanning 150 industries. From LinkedIn directly: “Since, like in the real world, the size of your network on LinkedIn depends on the number and quality of connections you have, we recommend you have at least 20 connections to people you know and trust on LinkedIn.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

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Chart Your Course

JULY 11, 2017

Few factors are more important to an organization’s success than the quality of its staff. The US population is graying at an accelerating pace: From 2010 roughly one in six workers will be over 54 years old. Publish thought-leadership articles about your industry. 2) Never Stop Networking.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Is it a niche business catering to a specific industry? How endearing is your brand to your customers? What do you your customers believe and understand about your brand? However, if Buddy didn’t excel at toymaking, then what was his true strength? Spreading Christmas spirit, that’s what! Does it fill a need? What does your brand stand for?

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2011

Or maybe you work under several managers, and you want to make sure that you are building rapport with the one who counts. The first mistake stems from not knowing what qualities to seek in potential leaders. Other times we focus on qualities that do matter, but we don’t go far enough to seek a healthy balance. They don’t.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 2, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 30, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 16, 2010

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

The past declines in video customers were indicative of an industry that encountered two formidable satellite TV competitors, and as a result lost massive chunks of market share. The cable industry, on the other hand, had not kept pace in the quantity of their offerings, and paid the price. My secret weapon was about to be unleashed.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 2, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 25, 2009

With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Are you the type of leader that passes “germs” to his team and organization with negative comments about individuals and management?

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 23, 2010

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. As those familiar with Deming’s ideas know, Dr. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management.

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 6, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees. Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 30, 2010

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Adapt ideas from other industries.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

OCTOBER 19, 2014

This is a refreshed version of a post I wrote in March, 2010. On one occasion, I was to talk with a number of Corporate Account Managers. I like money as well as the next person and there is a primal need to earn it and manage it prudently. Coming from Toronto, it seemed I was automatically not to be trusted. We become greedy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2018

There is a crying need for companies to enlist their supply chain management departments in the fight against cyberattackers. firms in 2017 were launched through the IT systems of suppliers or other third parties such as contractors, up from less than one-quarter of attacks in 2010. Hold supply managers accountable.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 18, 2010

Leadership & The Value Of An Inquiring Mind → July 18, 2010 · 11:58 pm ↓ Jump to Comments The Practical Gift of Humility A few weeks ago Mary Jo Asmus published a blog post entitled Giving Away Your Gifts. And, it’s not a quality that comes naturally or easily to human beings either. How indeed? Certainly not.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. At Bettcher Industries, we love the meat processing industry; we’ve always loved the meat processing industry and one reason we do is because many others don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. The higher the premium, the more consumers are likely to associate quality with the offering. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Ultimately, Edison’s commercial victories over Tesla were due not to the superior quality of Edison’s ideas but to differences in the men’s innovation capital. I think it’s very helpful to cross-fertilize ideas from different industries.” ” Management Science 56.2 2010): 253-269. [6] v=HfnFeJlkfZE. [5]

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

How they manage conflict. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. 10 Responses to Leaders and the Learning Organization Bret Simmons November 22, 2010 at 1:10 am I am a HUGE Senge fan. Here’s more about team learning in case you want it.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 23, 2012

I can hear these old world managers (the anti-leaders) now: “that’s not the reality of how the business world works. ” Unfortunately, for old school managers — and thankfully for the rest of us — Good Company builds many of its arguments around solid research. Good guys finish last.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

But as social media takes hold and changes the way we do business, organizations that understand the importance of these qualities are the ones that will grow and prosper. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Instead, managers tend to refer to development. In 2005, the toy industry in Chenhai fell to an unprecedented low, and the future looked especially bleak for Syma Toys. He saved Syma," Kevin Cheng, Syma's sales manager told me. And he saved the whole toy helicopter industry in Chenhai.". I have to, for a boy named Mason.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

MARCH 23, 2010

Exploring Shared Leadership → March 23, 2010 · 5:37 pm ↓ Jump to Comments The Importance of Being Purposeful When I first came to Vancouver to take up my new role as a Human Resources Consultant with a major bank, my boss and I agreed that I should go on a road trip and meet with as many corporate banking employees as possible.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Some examples of shared team learning are: Regular seminars and guest lecturers: Bring in experts and professors on various topics related to the history, science, or culture of your industry as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and technologists who work in peripherally related fields. Curiosity – inclination to learn.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&#

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Today, almost every industry is vulnerable to the effects of digitization and to what Accenture calls “Big Bang Disruption.” The industries most susceptible to disruption are those selling information-based services that can be delivered digitally – and a perfect example is the insurance industry. Insurethebox, a U.K.

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