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Managing Board Relations | N2Growth Blog

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In today’s post I’ll deal with a skill set that all successful CEOs excel at…managing board relations. What’s interesting to me is that of all the constituencies that CEOs must deal with, the relationship with a board of directors is among the easiest to manage.

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

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Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

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In fact, it is my opinion that the worst form of gossip is conducted under the guise of seeking advice or counsel. mikemyatt: A leaders Intellect should not be a depreci. Talking to anyone else wouldn’t resolve the issue, it would merely be self serving indulgence at someone else’s expense. Our Freedom.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

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offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from HBR.org. royatkinson Thanks for including that last piece of advice, Mike. Unfortunately, there are organizations that are toxic from the top down; where senior-most management pays lip service to the tenets of leadership, but acts in ways bordering on the malevolent.

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Brand Exposure

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Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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How to Build a Brand | N2Growth Blog

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Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above. Never sacrifice quality: Your products, services, leadership, management, culture, customer service, communication, etc.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

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My advice is to actually work at becoming very discerning. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge. The big take away here is that intuitive decisioning can be refined and improved.

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