N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

While I’m not going to deny that social media brings with it new tools, platforms and communication channels, I vehemently object to the premise that you need to morph into an uber geek or communications savant to learn to use them and to reap their many benefits. As I said above, your yield usually directly correlates to your efforts.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Why do so many talented, well-led teams, enterprises, and organizations – many of them with clear, reasonable goals – fail to win victories that should have been easily within their grasps? Setting impossible goals. In other words, it’s a fancy way to lose. The predictable and natural response is “Why bother?”.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 1, 2010

What you may lack in experience or skill you can make up for in energy and fresh perspectives. Accomplishes their objectives and goals through a variety of people and not by him or herself. What kind of steps do you need to take to reach your goals? Life’s too short to sit on the sidelines. Leads others by example.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Look at one of your selected objects and start talking. Complete a thought while looking directly at the object.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

During the design phase you will also establish the goals and objectives of your program. An example of a goal for a mentoring program could be that mentees will be more confident and knowledgeable when interacting with clients. An objective, on the other hand, should be measurable.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Sales reps are not in an objective position to obtain feedback because they are too emotionally involved in the situation. The most important long term goal and benefit of Win / Loss is to increase a company’s new business win rate. Prospects often have issues with the sales rep or sales process that can impact their candor.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Studies show that sporadic breaks replenish our energy, improve self-control and decision-making, and fuel productivity. A 2011 study published in Cognition highlights another upside to sporadic breaks that we rarely consider: goal reactivation. Finally, note your energy level when you return.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

They are all secondary pursuits to the main goal: happiness. Nonetheless, I bring you to this: happiness, despite all the indicators and theories and focus, is not our true goal. It teases us into wasting our time and energies toward its attainment, when all along It is not our highest aspiration, though we may think it is.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

By taking time to meet each week, our team is now able to plan and prioritize our objectives for the following week. I am in a position at work where I have no people under me, however, the point is a great one in that the only relationships that can progress and be maintained are those into which we are willing to give time and energy!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 10, 2011

In fact, your goal is to avoid face time with as many applicants as possible. There’s no need to intimidate or to be unduly overbearing toward an interviewee, but keep in mind that your objective is to evaluate her past accomplishments, because past performance is much more telling than past experience. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Her objective was to get on QVC, but she was turned down by gatekeepers again and again. and ask for their help.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Stephen Covey, in an interview with Forbes.com said, “Once you unleash the creative energy inside of people it affects every aspect of their life.&# Only then, will his team have the faith to follow and achieve the company’s objectives. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Additionally, corporate executives must have personal goals written, in conjunction with a professional business coach or mentor. Goals require measurable objectives, with realistic dates and percentages for successful accomplishment. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Training is vital.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

While men are singlemindedly focused on meeting linear goals, women are building bridges that may serve them in the future. That’s what makes it lasting, exciting, powerful, and magnetic. Focus on what’s in it for others. Men and women do approach life in different ways.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Since 1969, Communispond has helped over 600,000 client associates – including CEOs, board chairs, sales leaders, sports, media, and political figures – to achieve business goals by communicating with clarity and power. Finish with a Flourish Plan your presentation’s close so it meets your objective, whatever its purpose.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point is Wal-Mart CEO, Lee Scott, who is so concerned with diversity mandates that Wal-Mart officers are held financially accountable by tying officer incentive bonuses to achieving diversity goals. Employers frequently ask about diversity training but, when asked about their goals, they don't really have one.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. The social object that unites people isn't a company or a product; the social object that most unites people is a shared value or purpose. Sharing, not telling.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. I put my immediate energies toward building an exceptionally strong executive team.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

The CMOs will need to be much more attuned to the business objectives and strategies of the company in general and the CEO in particular, while the CEO must become more immersed in the customer perspective. At Essent, the Dutch energy company, CEO Erwin van Laethem provided practical guidance to his CMO. “My That was very helpful.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2014

They articulate the organization’s reason for being, and create goals and measures that support this rationale. He arrived as President at Quaker Foods North America in 2011 to find a strong, trusted brand with nutritional oatmeal products, but he knew there was an opportunity to build upon the legacy of this iconic brand.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The company would double the size of its business, he said, by channeling its efforts toward achieving eight ambitious goals by 2020 — among them, doubling the proportion of Unilever's portfolio that meets the highest nutritional standards, and halving the water associated with the consumer use of its products.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Applications of your work toward other departments’ objectives. 7 Stages in Making a Case for Business Funding: Link to a strategic business objective. Reasons for Goal Setting: Human beings live to attract goals. Managers lose sight of their employees’ goals. Mutually agreed-upon goals are vital.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

The manager needs to make sure that the company’s short and long-term objectives are always in the front of everyone’s mind, as well as make sure that every individual clearly understands what is expected of them on a day-to-day basis. What’s the overarching goal? The “ big, hairy, and audacious &# goal?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

What’s optimal for you – with your goals and values – could very well be suboptimal for the next person. Within this framework the purpose is to maximize or minimize, as appropriate, the performance metric in the objective by assigning values to the decision variables that satisfy the constraints.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2011

These executives spend much of their energies on planning, tactics, organizational development and business development. Upper management is most effective when it frames business decisions toward values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives and the benchmarking of tactics. Exponential improvement each year is the objective.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. Shared goals and clearly defined roles provide the foundation upon which cooperation and coordination can be built. The LESSON : Leader behavior must be aligned with company objectives and values. It’s an ongoing process.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. They came out unfulfilled because they didn’t really have clear objectives going in. If one is growing from networking and all parties benefit, it works well.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Yet, when the company shifted from being an energy supplier to the hucksterish energy trader, the charitable activities were dispensed with. Many of those investigating Enron had received campaign contributions from the company, yet kept maximum objectivity. Several committees competed with each other for the spotlight.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

” No technology company would object to that proposal. Liberation of so-called “orphan works” would have been enabled by a proposed settlement in a case involving wholesale scanning by Google Books, but that settlement was scuttled in 2011. Google went on to win the case outright.)

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