N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

The following 8 items constitute the basic tenants of branding, which if incorporated into your brand management strategy will help build a solid brand regardless of the size of your company or your ad budget: 1.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success.

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Mission Statement Benchmarking Tactics Strategic Planning 78

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – Cut the Weeds: Focus on Priorities and Strategy, Avoid the Time Zappers.

Diversity 85

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 85

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – Communications Reflect Your Strategy.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 78

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Each product-service is budgeted. Running the business.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 72

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This premise also holds true for each corporate operating unit and department. The whole of the business and each sub-set must always educate corporate opinion makers on how it functions and the skill with which the company operates. Are the long-range strategic planning and budgeting processes integrated?

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Entrepreneur Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Quality should be viewed as a journey, rather than a destination. Research shows they can be cut in half.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism: ideas that inspire, manage and benchmark change. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Corporate Responsibility means operating a business in ways that meet or exceed the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations that society has of business. The good apples polish their luster in such ways as to distance from the few bad apples.

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Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 50

N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

Focus of governance activity is limited to budget, time, milestones, and deliverables only. Risks to realization of expected results are not understood, measured, or proactively managed. There is a lack of integrated participation from the business and support area leaders in strategic initiatives.

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Strategy ROI Planning Organization 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Some performers made careers as supporting players. Davis was Schultzy on “The Bob Cummings Show” and Alice on “The Brady Bunch.”.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

How important is it to build an organization well, rather than constantly spend time in managing conflict? Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision? Who are the customers? Do you and your organization presently have a strategy-vision? Are businesses really looking for creative ideas?

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Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

The term Budgeting gets tossed around in many ways. Budgets get blamed for gridlock. Budgets get politicized. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. Budgeting by itself is a minor piece of business strategy. by Hank Moore.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 65

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operations are sound, professional and productive. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Customers get what they cannot really get elsewhere. Running the business. The size of your company is necessary to do the job demanded.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Here are the “heart and soul“ reasons for being engaged in humanitarian service: Being good citizens. Volunteering, as time permits and worthy causes appear. Helping others. Business supporting communities. Finding one’s passion. Working together with others.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Finally comes Crisis Training.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 74

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I'm also talking about those individuals (and I have one in mind right now) who work tirelessly in some unknown village to help their own people rise up out of poverty and ignorance, without a budget and without recognition from the world. but you’ll not find that here. These are the leaders who go unnamed and unrecognized.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In times of crisis, people came together to help each other. The month of September saw natural disasters. Forces of nature: from disasters came citizens with noble hearts and a willingness to serve others. Young people sought to help, thus inspiring lifelong commitments to community stewardship.

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Crisis Teamwork Marketing Commitment 62

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

We are also progressively increasing the IT share on our municipal budget because we know the value technology can bring to raise efficiency and improve the quality of services to citizens. But the main challenge is not how to operate the machine. We built it in a partnership with IBM, Oracle, Samsung and other companies.

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Software Early Adopters Technology Crisis 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The follow-through and crisis preparedness planning process helps to divert other crises from transpiring. Recommendations for crisis management and preparedness as part of macro planning are offered. In times of crisis, advisors are called upon more frequently.

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Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. Exceed client expectations. Measure success.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. Here are some of the most significant statistics that relate to your ability to do business: Only 2% of the businesses have a plan of any kind. What many of them think is a plan include some accounting figures or sales goals.

Budgeting 78

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 78

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective 70

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business shift from the retail dealer customer service mentality of Firestone shifted to a high-production tire operation. When they are compelled to do so, company leadership will provide leadership for change management and re-engineering…two of the many worthwhile concepts that should be advocated every business day.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Professionals who succeed the most are the products of mentoring. I heartily endorse that find a great mentor. I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor is a resource for business trends, societal issues and opportunities.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Non-profit organizations and the causes they promote are greatly served by enlightening the public. Public education is an important part of the charge for those organizations. The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II.

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Advertising Education Audience Marketing 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. This is regarded as a premiere textbook case of quality crisis management. The Big Picture of Business: Putting Budgeting Into Perspective, The Bigger Picture of Strategic Planning.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? There’s not a thing that we can do to change things. The status quo is perfectly acceptable. That’s the way the cookie crumbles. That’s life. What are you gonna do about it? There’s too much talk about planning.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 73

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

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Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

The number of companies participating in trade shows increases each year. While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Booth exhibitions at trade shows are viable and cost-effective sales tools to: Achieve new customers, in order to grow and increase profits.

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How To Follow-up Participative Objective 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The Big Picture of Business – The Statistics Tree: Understanding Figures and What They Symbolize, Relating Directly to Your Business Success.

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Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 91

Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

No business can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. The same community relations posture will not last forever. Use research and follow-up techniques to reassess the position, assure continuity and move in a forward motion.

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Franchising Marketing Strategy Strategic Planning 69

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Operational meltdowns can devour a midsized company’s cash. If the CFO has a realistic budget, it’s much easier for a midsized company to borrow money. Crisis management Cutting costs Small/medium business' At such a time, company leaders must relentlessly focus on one thing: unearthing cash and holding onto it.

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Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The only exception is during a crisis or in the face of an impending deadline — when somehow the use of time magically shifts to match the short-term priority. First there are corporate or divisional meetings — essentially command performances — in addition to the standing and ad-hoc meetings called by your boss.

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Management Delegation Crisis Strategic Planning 15