Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

Many blue oceans are created within red oceans by expanding existing industries into areas not yet imagined by your competition. Apple always aims to set itself apart from competitors not by price but by competitive advantages based on product design that attracts customers.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

A nuanced understanding of the business landscape, clarity about customer needs, and an agile decision-making capability poised toward calculated risks are instrumental in this transformative stride. Intricate challenges exist, replete with convoluted paths, missteps, experimentations, and failures.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared 3 areas of competitive advantage for you and your team. Sean writes: “ Ultimately, the greatest competitive advantage you can have is the QUALITY OF YOUR INTERNAL TEAM CULTURE. And CULTURE is a symptom of LEADERSHIP. Find Linda on Twitter at @leadingincontxt.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 26, 2018

Most executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century. People, not companies, generate value, so why isn't talent at the center of every company's strategy?

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2023

In today’s fast-paced business world, companies must stay agile and have a competitive advantage to succeed. One way to ensure success is by aligning business strategy with human resources strategy. In this article, we look at why HR strategy is important for businesses and how they can go about strategic planning.

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QAspire

APRIL 2, 2017

In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. Jack Welch famously said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.”. A team’s ability to learn quickly is at the heart of adapting to constant changes.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 6, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of corporate agility and its ability to support us in our attempts to adapt to the circumstances we face. Foresight activities are much more comprehensive than just analyzing trends.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Agility is key. From an organizational perspective, companies are looking to utilize the latest collaborative technology to allow such development to take place, with agile learning seen as the most important factor in attracting and retaining the best talent. “As

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What if leaders could shift the cultural mindset around what gives businesses a competitive advantage and recognize the benefits of being more human? Empathetic leaders are agile and connected and. Contrary to popular belief, compassion and empathy are actually huge assets in the business world. Empathetic leaders are adaptable.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In today’s business environment, competitive advantage often rests on the effectiveness of the commercial strategy, and the individual at the helm of this function plays a critical role. The ideal CCO should possess a robust commercial understanding, lead the company’s commercial strategy, and execute it successfully.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They see any economic change as a springboard for profitable growth and competitive advantage. Ask yourself: Will less agile organizations struggle to keep up? Many believe it’s certain that a recession is pending. Proactive business leaders aren’t worried. We will instead show the market what we’re made of.”.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

These rules create greater value with lower cost and even lower effort, helping to avoid unneeded turbulence to decision-makers who are responsible for navigating the organization through the rough waves of the deep blue oceans of competition. The real battle lies within, not on the outside with competitors.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

To achieve real competitive advantage and sustained breakthrough results, strategy must become the job of every employee, not just a handful of senior executives. The strategic conversation shifts towards strategic performance drivers and competitive advantages that can be delivered in days, weeks or months… not years.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the new strategy paradigm, the focus of strategy is on how to create competitive advantage. While establishing a long term vision for all employees to understand is still very important, the strategic planning horizon in the new paradigm needs to be shorter term, agile and rapidly adaptive.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Sacrifice must remain a part of the organization’s DNA to sustain competitive advantage. . This book is for anyone who is keen to embrace the practices that foster agility, foresight, adaptability, and resilience.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 24, 2017

We need a new and more agile approach. what is being done for the most part today is a kind of a tit for tat, and that’s what I see most people calling gaining competitive advantage.” Optimizing today’s processes for greater efficiency does not necessarily offer an advantage for tomorrow.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2021

As I explained in Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy, and Understanding at Work , a culture of connection meets the seven universal human needs at work for respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth, meaning and progress.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

AQ is defined as “the ability to adjust course, product, service, and strategy in response to unanticipated changes in the market”— and indeed, the Harvard Business Review characterised it as “the new competitive advantage.”

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Agile Strategizing. The second conclusion is that there are generic lessons to be learned from studying high performance across multiple disciplines that have application in specific individual situations. Process Designing the organizational structures and processes to achieve the vision/mission statement. Related articles.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. Five Frequencies prescribes more than 20 practical Signal Boosts for turning culture into competitive advantage. How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?”

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Darwin famously said it’s the most adaptable that tend to survive, but whereas evolutionary change tends to happen over incredibly long timeframes, modern shifts are played out in ever-shortening periods.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2017

" Stragility is the term for strategic, agile, people-powered change that enables organizations to thrive amidst relentless turbulence and uncertainty," explain Ellen R. Achieving Stragility is the key to competitive advantage that lasts," they add. That agility is a key part of Stragility.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Teams and organizations with higher levels of connection have higher employee engagement, tighter strategic alignment, better decision making, higher rates of innovation, and greater agility and adaptability. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2018

And strategy is important, but a thriving organizational culture is an even more critical for long-term competitive advantage. Any successful CEO must be able to embrace change and be prepared to be flexible and agile; rapid change is a fundamental part of business today. Communicate consistently and with candor. Embrace change.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2015

Lionel Messi needs to prove he is a leader who cares about the people he is responsible for leading and that he values relationship excellence in addition to skill, agility, and goal-making. Adapted from Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

So what are the innovations to managing strategy that will lead to sustained competitive advantage and breakthrough results? An agile, flexible, and dynamic process custom fit to the needs of an organization. STRATEGY INNOVATION. The innovations required to move towards this new paradigm are significant.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In a market as competitive as today, employees also act as a competitive advantage. Businesses whose employees are happy produce better results and can be more agile on the market. Aside from the boost in agility, there are other reasons why happy employees are good for business.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 7, 2015

Curry is a smaller, quick player with extraordinary agility and shooting accuracy, not unlike the shepherd boy who slew the giant. If I were advising LeBron about his role as a team leader, especially in this critical period, I would impress upon him the competitive advantage of connection. Beyond David and Goliath.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Talent has progressed from a cost to be minimized to source of competitive advantage. The Live Enterprise model is different because it allows good agile principles to be practiced at scale in a large company, not sacrificing the structure and scale needed to be successful while still being flexible and adaptable.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 12, 2020

Properly allowing the process agility, the capability to modify and communicate the processes in no time. It results in taking the better advantages of the latest opportunities of the business or tackling the business challenges. A small step towards improvement can have a more significant impact on the overall organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 16, 2020

However, the vast majority are still struggling with how to do it successfully, in a way that will generate the most ROI and bolster competitive agility. “It’s clear that companies of all sizes, and across all industries, know they need to scale AI not just to grow, but to merely stay relevant today,” Accenture say.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

There’s little doubt that leaders now have to operate in a faster-paced, ever-changing environment where agility and innovation are no longer competitive advantages but requirements to doing business in today’s inner-connected global economy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2020

In a group that has a high degree of connection, you’ll find a cognitive advantage that makes people smarter and more creative, higher employee engagement,tighter strategic alignment, better decisions, a higher rate of innovation, and greater agility and adaptability to cope with faster changes taking place today.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Tell people your style and thought process for navigating tricky, or even every day, decisions.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment. It’s as much about mindset as it is about skillset – with a focus on honing curiosity, flexibility and agility. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

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