N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

In today’s post I’ll examine the value of loyalty as it relates to leadership. If relationships are the currency of leadership, it is important for leaders to note that loyalty serves as the cornerstone of any healthy relationship. Leadership and loyalty go hand-in-hand.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Jet Blue does it with customer service and price (and great seats!). Trader Joe’s excels in products, price, and customer service. Next Step: Look at your pricing, your product, or your customer service and tweak a bit. Nordstrom’s excels in customer service and quality. Get where I’m going? Unported License.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Who are the best salespeople that can educate you on the Z4 and get you the best price? Investigate alternatives to the Z4 – cheaper, better, other brands. What are the best dealerships? How much will insurance be? What is the resale value? Lease or buy? Return policies? Warranties? Set up goal markers to check off during this process.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 3, 2011

Consider the executive who briefed his top management team on the company's plans for the coming year, referencing products launches, pricing pressures, and analyst concerns. The executive wove-in many of the essential threads of the leadership fabric but seemed to fall short of spinning the whole cloth.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Being helpful comes with a price, and the price is more work. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Oftentimes, there is more risk in customer service when the answer to our concerns is “yes.” Can you help me? Will you make an exception and do this for me just this once? Could you look into this issue I’m having?

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 21, 2010

If you want to win the showcase on The Price Is Right, you at least have to show up and be in the audience. So if you’re waiting for that big, shiny limousine to pull up at your home or office and whisk you off to a better life with more money — keep dreaming. Make it happen! Extreme Mojo (or Driving On The Corporate Autobahn).

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Because there are fewer women in positions of power, we are often observed closely by others as models of leadership in the workplace. However, that’s a small price to pay for the positives that are derived. It is vital for women who have achieved success in their careers to help other women.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Involve the leaders being coached in determining the desired behavior in their leadership roles. The people that I coach (in agreement with their managers) work with me to determine desired leadership behavior. However, at lower levels in the organization (that are more price sensitive), traditional 360° feedback can work very well.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

She is also moving into a bigger space in her building at a bargain price! As a business owner, I suggest you talk with your landlord about rent prices, you may be surprised to find out they are willing to lower your rent just to ensure you stay around.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996.  She became CEO of Avon in 1999, and in the past 9 years, she has helped to grow the company to achieve an annual revenue of $8.7

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service. must all reflect high standards of quality.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

I have watched many a well intentioned executive get sucked into gossip in an attempt to help, only to pay a big price down the road for their error in judgment. Let me cut right to the chase – real leaders don’t participate in gossip, and likewise they don’t tolerate gossip from others.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

Some of the things you should vary and test are: • Promotion offered • Price • Free offers • Graphics • Free Trial • Color • Font • Mail Format • Length • Day and time of emailing • Subject lines and body copy • Response device (reply to email, visit website, etc.)

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2014

The classic mistake made in leadership development, coaching, and self-help books is the promise that “This will make you better!” Our challenge for getting in shape as well as for changing leadership behavior lies not in the understanding but in the doing! Coaching Employee Engagement Leadership' Doing is tough.In

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

It costs 5 to 10 times more to attract a new customer than it does to keep an existing one.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog. include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Please join me in welcoming Tanya Maslach of Elevati, Inc. Tanya holds an M.A.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Is the pursuit of success or significance driving your quest in 2011?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

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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Chris Brady

JANUARY 5, 2011

  And now for the new contest, our first of 2011! Posted by: Matt Foote | January 05, 2011 at 09:50 AM New gift ideas for 2011! Posted by: Doug Hines | January 05, 2011 at 09:53 AM The airline's learned that charging for blankets and pillows were not popular with the traveller. and a Winner Announced!

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QAspire

JANUARY 3, 2010

Instant MBA will do that with some very practical advice on how to inculcate MBA thinking and emotional intelligence to advance your career. Creativity, Effective Presentations, Pricing, Excellence, Vision, Human Resources, Research, Entrepreneurship are just some of the topics covered in the book. Don’t Kill It!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com. What are the 8 skills?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The big thing for me is I know when I add something to my life and work, there's a price to pay – time wise! So, I 'm thinking, why not take a piece of that and post it a few times a week and see what happens? Something has to be subtracted. We only have so much time. I wonder how many bloggers families pay?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I hope your inspiring and heartfelt thoughts cause others to reflect on the great price that has been, and is continuing to be paid to protect our freedom. Hopefully their example will raise the standards of leadership in our national life. It is because of men like you that we all have the privilege of freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Think About Your Legacy: Create a legacy that transcends your career.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

For example, talented people are often excluded from leadership positions if they belong to the group that faces discrimination. What are the costs of this, beyond stifling or ending the careers of thousands of people? These losses persisted until the end of our stock price sample period in 1943, a full 10 years later.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

DECEMBER 9, 2009

As a consequence of this lack of guidance and leadership, increasing numbers of young people in their lates 20s still havent discovered their Inner Wannabe." How about this: "You can be practically anything you want in life, if you prepare yourself for it and are willing to pay the price to get it." Thanks for joining me.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors? It’s simple: They hire the right people. And it is a potential avenue for business owners who are looking for a way to generate more income.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And despite the antisocial implications of the dark triad, recent research has highlighted a wide range of career-related benefits for these personality characteristics. You can certainly turn them into career weapons, but the group will generally lose the more you win.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

In 2011, our nation was shocked when prominent Pennsylvania State University leaders, including the late legendary football coach Joe Paterno, were accused of ignoring allegations of child sex abuse by the school’s former defensive coordinator almost a decade earlier. Leadership matters because people matter.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 25, 2011

Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership by John Hamm. Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This non-traditional, gung-ho guide is not afraid to lay out the leadership methods that can effectively get a new business off the ground, and through the requisite fast-track growth phases that produce tangible success measured by your bottom line and your wallet. This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. Does stock price accurately reflect intrinsic value? Among the questions they raise: shareholder value over what time frame?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

They are found not just in the world of business, although they do have strong leadership qualities and excellent business sense as a common core. Buss launched his career in real estate with $1,000 in 1959—a venture that proved lucrative. Innovation Leadership' They seize opportunities that others don''t dare to.

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