Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

In this article I’ll explain why and how we fall short, and introduce new skills to enable us to truly serve Others. Here is how and why we restrict possibility: Biased listening: We each hear through subjective filters, created during, and restricting, our lives. We Connect Through Our Own Subjectivity. often fall on deaf ears.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

The costs of degrading and ignoring employees and making customers conform to our money-saving practices cost us high turnover, a paucity of fresh ideas and new leaders, and the need to hire more supervisory managers to handle the fallout. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. All rights reserved.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help avoid conflicts. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ The management that takes steps to ‘fix themselves’ rather than always projecting. The mentor is a resource for business trends, opportunities, an active listener and adviser on values, actions.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2011

And an employee in marketing is furious about being passed over for a promotion in favor of her coworker and is trying to discredit her. These are just a couple of examples of the workplace conflicts that take up 42 percent of the typical manager’s time. It’s important to note that The Exchange was designed by mediators for managers.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Because of the exponential growth of social media in recent years, and the fact nearly half of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

In the early days of my marketing strategy consulting business, when I had clients on retainer with whom I met every week, an in-person meeting took a full half-day: 90 minutes (with occasional spillover), plus 45 minutes of travel time on either end. But as a freelancer or entrepreneur, you’re likely based somewhere else.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

The managers in charge of these alliances caution us, however, that a positive relationship between irritation and success does not mean that you should be looking for opportunities to create just any conflict. Focus your conflict-management resources where it matters most.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

And 48 percent of the new jobs, according to Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, will emphasize a mix of hard and soft intellectual skills, like active listening, leadership, communication, analytics, and administration competencies. How talent management is changing. One potential model is GitHub.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. What specific steps can you take to increase your area’s contribution margin? Does this add value to our core business?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

When Jared walked into a meeting to discuss a new marketing approach for a product, the conversation didn’t play out well. Five minutes into the dialogue, the product manager, Françoise, started interrupting him with questions he was planning to address later in the pitch. Our mind is elsewhere.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

A need to be right masquerading as active listening. A fundamental social skill of emotional intelligence is being an effective listener. I watched this happen in a leadership team meeting as the heads of marketing and sales tried to resolve a common stalemate.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2016

There is something marketing managers seem to forget about the internet: it was made for people, not for companies and brands. As such, it offers managers a source of insight they never had — social listening. Social listening competency will be critical to competitive advantage in the digital age.

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