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. As a result, their trustworthiness among customers in any niche industry grows, and they become seen as market leaders. Direct Sources.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Companies that “walk the talk,” prioritizing and delivering professional development through avenues like coaching are attracting the strongest candidates in the current market. Second , responding to evidence of “The Great Resignation” where industry knowledge is walking out the door, coaching is proven to equip leaders rising in the ranks.

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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

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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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

Quitting your job is not something most employees would consider doing in light of today’s weak job market. Such gestures will cost you nothing and yet choosing to forgo them will have a very sizable impact on your organization’s bottom line.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Bottom line…the way you identify leaders is not through psychological profiling or some miraculous transformative process. They're the ones on behalf of the team who step up and do a faceplant with an oncoming tomato. You bring up some great points about leadership and responsibility.

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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

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 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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2010

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2013

What is the best way to handle cold calls about a free hearing screening for senior citizens and follow up on a direct mailing? It’s for people that have no other way of marketing. The bottom line is if you get a response from it, then figure out a better way to communicate with those who are interested.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

this is especially true now that Millennials — about 43% of whom are not white , according to Pew Research—make up a growing slice of most consumer markets. Misconceptions like this aren’t limited to American markets. Sports, music, food, fashion, and hobbies are all culture. In the U.S.,

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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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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. This was not a dude who was used to asking anyone for help, let alone a virtual stranger.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K., and Latin America.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

When a job opens up in today’s economy, it receives a lot of attention. gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Here’s why. And the Clients Went Wild!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! And the Clients Went Wild!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. And the Clients Went Wild! Do what works!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Conversely, the delighted first-person reports of great service or work experience carry an authenticity that often outshines a company's own official marketing. Many companies assess the impact of social media through that narrow lens: marketing.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Likewise, it has hit the business industry, bringing some tech-savvy innovations, especially for the marketing department. In today’s tech-savvy world, escaping the advantages of digital marketing is impossible. Surprisingly, the new decade brings a whole bunch of new competitive marketing strategies. Have a look below.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience. But Burberry stopped short of doing what makes the most sense to their bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Month by month, the job market keeps easing upward. 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. Now this optimism is starting to spread.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

He approved marketing campaigns that told loyal Penney''s shoppers that "you deserve to look better," basically telling them that they looked less than glamorous wearing the brand they had trusted and been comfortable with for years. Penney''s sudden swoon that not enough commentators are picking up on. He was arrogant.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why I was fascinated by Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World by Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger. ” So, how did we end up with this hunger for “raw”? Everything begins with the collapse of trust.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

Instead of getting into a price war or squabbling over a shrinking market, both disruptors and incumbents find new ways to create value. This benefits customers – both the high-end customers being chased by incumbents, and the low-end or middle-market consumers being served by disruptors — and the industry at large.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10 and generated 50% more earnings. Average earnings among the top 10 were up 6% this year, while the average earnings of the bottom 10 dropped 9%. Indeed, 16 out of bottom 25 firms are FTSE companies.

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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

JANUARY 7, 2013

You even people talking about UX as the way in which a consumer connects to a business — all the touch-points from marketing to product development to distribution channels. It's the "new black," to borrow from a fashion phrase — as well as a reference to its influence on profitability.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2013

In the throes of apprehending the future of advertising, much has been, and will be, said about new channels, emergent technologies, innovative measurement protocols, morphing agency roles and the like; much less, probably, about how we actually create marketing that works, that's worth consuming, and that's worth running in any channel.

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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., Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager. The bottom line is that self-awareness isn’t one truth.

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