Rich Gee Group

MAY 3, 2022

Summary: Strategic moves create a leap in value for the company, its buyers, and its employees while unlocking new demand and making the competition irrelevant. They present analytical frameworks and tools to foster an organization's ability to systematically create and capture "blue oceans"—unexplored new market areas.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” Knox, Kentucky.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse. The leadership part HAS to come first.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

They see any economic change as a springboard for profitable growth and competitive advantage. We will instead show the market what we’re made of.”. Make time to understand in which ways the competition has the advantage. Assess the market. Where will you see profitable openings in the market?

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Marty Parker attempts to tackle this “how” question in his book, Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage. This book is written about ten Canadian companies, who recently won the “10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures” award.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. He has presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It starts with the corporate strategy, and includes marketing strategy, and the all-important human resource strategy. In marketing, great branding steers clear of multi-benefits; one clear, compelling benefit will find a place in busy minds. Sacrifice must remain a part of the organization’s DNA to sustain competitive advantage. .

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. And, the winner of the 2013 Thinkers50, Clay Christensen, now sees his ideas of disruptive innovation used and applied by managers in their relentless quest for competitive advantage. The Thinkers50 book series is now available from McGraw Hill.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2014

Every organization is looking to create and protect its competitive advantage and those often come in two flavors – resources or capabilities – and talent (your people) help you create, sustain and protect both. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Book value is not guaranteed.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Do Less Better is the name of my book. The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Who will design, manage, and deliver world-class leadership programs? Leadership development is becoming closely aligned with and used to support corporate strategy. Best-practice organizations view the leadership development process as an increasing source of competitive advantage. How will we pick our leaders?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. His warnings were dismissed and ignored.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2019

A BRAND properly conceived is more than a marketing activity. An Ironclad brand is one that unleashes your competitive advantage. Creating an ironclad brand is not just the function of the marketing department. What is your asymmetrical, lopsided, disproportionate strength that far exceeds the rest of the market?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 19, 2018

Here, we will share from our forthcoming book The Purpose Revolution: How Leaders Create Engagement and Competitive Advantage in an Age of Social Good reasons why some leaders fail at purpose, and offer proven practices to get your people connected and engaged for success.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you look at its opposite, this declaration clearly demonstrates the importance great leadership plays in creating successful companies. Yet 80% of the brunt of the failure is felt by the people who can’t do anything about it.&#

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Microsoft Corporation got its start by making operational software for personal computers; as a contractor to IBM who decided to explore the personal computer market after doing well in main frame and mid-sized computing hardware. .

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Mark Sanborn

JULY 9, 2019

As advertising guru Lee Clow put it, “When reviewing a list of best practices, keep in mind that someone somewhere is selling them in a book.” So if everyone’s using the same “best practices,” there’s not much competitive advantage for anyone. Rather than best practices, I believe in better practices and next practices.

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Brigette Hyacinth

APRIL 9, 2020

Reactionary management is not strategic leadership. And if I was in the job market, an interview question I would definitely ask would be, “how did your company handle the pandemic?”. You would be losing intellectual resources and at a bigger risk of not maintaining a competitive advantage. Loyalty is a two-way street.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. That night, I presented the marketing strategy that catapulted a regional brand to national leadership in Canada. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises. For more on strategic sacrifice check out the free introductory chapter of my new book Do Less Better: The Power of Strategic Sacrifice in a Complex World.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I’ll start with leadership. Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. But to smaller companies, qualitative strategies are the catalyst to sustainable competitive advantage. Thousands of small to medium sized businesses are successfully doing this.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Bob Lisser, author and business strategist, unveils the secrets to unlocking this growth advantage in his book aptly titled The Growth Advantage. The Growth Advantage serves as a comprehensive blueprint for companies seeking to thrive and gain a decisive edge in their respective industries.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At a critical junction in the American Revolution, George Washington used superior leadership to turn the tables on a stronger competitor – and so can you. But in my experience, effective leadership can level the playing field. Effective leadership turns the tables. Find your advantages, and put them to work.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 17, 2012

I’ve read a lot of books on strategy. I was devoted to master strategies and “big play” innovations that ideally positioned a company to dominate their chosen market(s) and enjoy sustainable competitive advantage. The philosophy begins with a mindset obsessed with the competition.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

Many of this year’s business books recognize culture’s role as the essential driver of effective change. By contrast, the two books reviewed below offer highly specific ways of engaging culture to build more effective, productive, and innovative organizations. The reissue of his classic book is cause for celebration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2015

So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete. Tiny niche players can emerge from nowhere to take the market or make expensively researched products obsolete overnight.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 17, 2013

With the upcoming release of Thor Dark World and amid the success of The Avengers blockbuster movies overall, there are excellent parallel leadership lessons that can be learned from these Marvel Comics superheroes. the competition). FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Book value is not guaranteed.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2018

There is a new book just for you that teaches you how to strategically recruit people with the values and goals that will drive your venture forward. Hiring smart is key explains Carvajal, “because entrepreneurs need a competitive advantage, and that advantage is a group of people rather than a strong individual at the top.” “I

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] patriciazell Wow…thanks, Mike!

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