Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. Bottom line: Your products and services should be where your clients are. These days — and by my estimation — this notion has become a top priority for the majority of businesses.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2011

Early in my career I worked for a company where the CEO loved to have meetings. Because the meetings were poorly conceived and poorly facilitated, it turned out that most meetings just ended-up being rehashing sessions for the subjects not resolved in prior meetings – a theme most of you are probably all too familiar with.

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The Empowered Buisness

JUNE 16, 2015

Decisions are made often in a top-down, hierarchical fashion. Decisions are made often in a bottoms-up, organic fashion. Who can pass this up? There are very few, if any, critical issues facing your business. The internal and external environment of your business is somewhat stable.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Every workplace is plagued with manipulative people who use emotion to create conflict in order to cover-up for their lack of substance. Thanks for sharing your insight Sarah.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me? It means your vision is not understood, your team is not aligned and your talent is not performing up to par. Bottom line…Yes is not a sign of weakness – it’s a sign of intelligent leadership. It is you who have made assumptions.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Such gestures will cost you nothing and yet choosing to forgo them will have a very sizable impact on your organization’s bottom line. This is why these employees react in the manner that they do as they are simply living up to the expectations those in charge have of them.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Sometimes people engage in plain old-fashioned bad behavior. The bottom line is that they hunger for recognition, but their behavior can quickly wreck even a strong team. Team members require self-motivation to step up in competitive situations. Pouting and yelling. If not addressed, it can become chronic–and contagious.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The premise of his piece is that the landscape of the Blogosphere is changing radically, and that as such many “A-Listers” have either quit, or are contemplating giving-up their blogging endeavors. The bottom line is that the numbers do in fact speak for themselves. Blogging is much more than the latest trend and is here to stay.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Bottom line…unproven leaders come with a high risk premium. Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Bottom line – leaders who build a static business doom themselves to failure.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. Bottom line…good leaders are kind, empathetic, compassionate and loving leaders, which enables them to be fair, just and to display a steely resolve when needed. Starting to get my drift?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a well reasoned and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If a conflict does flair up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly. I wholeheartedly agree with what you have stated.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Every year, HBR interviews 10 people who’ve had fascinating careers. British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. My career would not have been the same had the crash not occurred.” We asked her how she knew when a dramatic career move was the right one.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

Accompanying it was a big, bold headline that read, “Burn Your Boss” and a tagline at the bottom that said, “Report the use of unlicensed software.” There was one item that looked a bit more personal, so I picked it up for closer inspection. Janice and I were old friends, and I had recently helped her out of a sticky career jam.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

Yet, some of us still manage to muck it up. The bottom line : If you don’t represent yourself honestly where ever you are, the example you set will not ring true for those you want to influence the most. The Bottom Line: If you have ever had the idea that you can say one thing and do another and not be found out, think again.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

When a job opens up in today’s economy, it receives a lot of attention. And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? Here’s why. And no wonder: Over 15 million Americans need work. Click here to cancel reply.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rodger Dean Duncan: What role does mindset play in a person’s ability to fashion a meaning-filled life that will be gratefully remembered by others? The bottom line…Never win at the expense of a relationship. Mistakes don’t make you a failure but beating yourself up makes you feel like one. But not everyone sees it that way.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2011

To better understand the ROI, my company, Burson-Marsteller, teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment. The survey garnered responses from 20 of the top 25 companies in the global workplace ranking. They're upgrading.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? You don’t always have to be wracking your brain to come up with a product or service that is better than anything your competitors offer. Click here to cancel reply.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Although we haven’t fully made up the number of jobs that were lost in this recession, almost every industry has grown jobs since the economy hit rock bottom in February 2010. You use old-fashioned search techniques. However, when he ran into obstacles in his job search, he chose to beef up his LinkedIn presence.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

We are currently writing up our results for submission to an academic journal.). Each participant was asked to recall their level of self-awareness at different stages of their life up until the age they were currently (e.g., The bottom line is that self-awareness isn’t one truth. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

The index was constructed in the same fashion as other indexes that seek to isolate an industry sector (banking, biotech), geography (China), or size (large cap), for example. Countless acts in the design details ladder up to one big, fat impression that Nike is the company for performance-minded athletes.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

My advice to you is not to let your business get caught up in embracing random ideas – at least not without some initial analysis being conducted to determine the likelihood of success. Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. I am a huge fan of the benefits of professional development gained from good old-fashioned reading. Do I have your attention yet?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

Within hours of the earthquake, this corporate foundation dispatched a team of journalists to Port-au-Prince to set up an Emergency Information Service (EIS) for the affected population, disseminating verified, actionable information by SMS messages in Creole. Many graduates join Cisco as employees, contributing to the firm's bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Communities of growth offer connections to the present; they are made up of people we feel an affinity with based on our current likes and dislikes. Communities of aspiration can be used to come up with new ideas and solutions, as well as execute them. communities often provide us with a feeling of security.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

For young people today, the economy basically feels something like the portrait above, and they’re the ones stuck at the bottom of the ravine. I’ve suggested for many years that we are living through a zombieconomy – where the economy seems to stagger forward in a lifelike fashion, but it’s really just a reanimated corpse. McDonald’s.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In 2011, Thierry Andretta, the CEO of French fashion company Lanvin, announced an initiative called "no email Wednesdays" because he thought people had stopped actually talking to each other. Now whenever a PfizerWorks user decides she needs support, she simply pushes a button, describes her need in a pop-up window, and presses send.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you’re still asking these questions WAKE-UP – get your head out of the sand, and stop broadcasting your ignorance. I would strongly suggest reading two previous posts: “ Shut-up and Listen &# and “ Stop Selling and Add Value “ as support for these positions. Instead I will just share your post!

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

As I’ve said in other posts, great leaders have the innate ability to call on the right skills in a contextually and environmentally appropriate fashion. Foster “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.&# - John Wayne “The true leader serves. No single leader can possess every needed attribute.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

” So, how did we end up with this hunger for “raw”? Most executives have been taught since early in their careers that they can never, under any circumstances, appear to not have all the answers. Simply speaking to our audience in a natural, unscripted fashion builds trust because it’s hard to hide.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

So in this article, I’ll walk through how we applied this approach to a particular product at a start-up, and how it led to large-scale adoption and, ultimately, the acquisition of the company. We build groups of notes in a bottom-up fashion, identifying similarities and anomalies.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I became him, after a fashion, since I am 65 now. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). Living in a fantasy without viewing the realities of the marketplace sets companies up for failure.). Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through. Colonel Harlan Sanders entered my life. He was 65.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

While women make up 51.5% We know having a sponsor who supports your career can help level the playing field for women. We know having a sponsor who supports your career can help level the playing field for women. How do they stand up to pressure from peers or the expectations of outmoded organizational cultures?

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