CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

B usiness Model Generation caught my eye in a book store in December – It is rare I find myself in book stores anymore given how many books are sent to me as a blogger and my preference in reading on Kindle or IPad. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

Business Model 141

Business Model Executive Coaching Execution Blog 141

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Buildings and their construction are among the largest contributors to global resource use. Move to a more circular business model. In working toward a sustainable future, we need to make a strategic choice: control the linearity of the value chain or move toward a more circular business model.

Positioning 230

Positioning Supply Chain Real Estate Business Model 230

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2020. Experimentation Works : The Surprising Power of Business Experiments by Stefan H. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong.

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Books Leadership B2C B2B 323

Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

How To 261

How To Agility Diversity Operations 261

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. Aligning business models with social purpose.

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Uncertainty Business Model Cooper Skills 234

Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 8, 2023

"AI doesn't replace leadership; it redefines it. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a game-changing force in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, transforming industries and businesses globally. As executives navigate the complex waters of modern-day leadership, understanding AI isn't just beneficial—it's essential.

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Supply Chain Ethics Case Study Handbook 195

CO2

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Navigating the complexities of the corporate world requires more than just a sharp business acumen; it calls for guidance, insight, and strategic foresight. This is where business coaching and leadership development emerges as not just a support system, but a critical investment in the future of your company.

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Leadership Development Development Succession Execution 78

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life. True authority and true leadership come from knowing who you are and not pretending to be anything else. He was telling me not to invest in small projects that would sap my and the company’s resources and not give much back.

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Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 214

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Below is a summary of how I helped five startups, three middle-market companies, and a business unit of a Fortune 300 company pivot for pandemic-influenced business settings. Challenge Business Model Assumptions. The first step is to evaluate assumptions about the business model.

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Supply Chain ROI Business Model Emotional Intelligence 153

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Innovative Mindset : The city’s burgeoning reputation as an innovation hub ensures coaches are equipped with modern, forward-thinking business strategies. Community Connections : Their established local network opens doors for entrepreneurs in terms of partnerships and resources.

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Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

Innovative Mindset : The city’s burgeoning reputation as an innovation hub ensures coaches are equipped with modern, forward-thinking business strategies. Community Connections : Their established local network opens doors for entrepreneurs in terms of partnerships and resources.

Entrepreneur 78

Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2014

As I write this, I am thinking about leadership. Generational shifts at workplace combined with business model disruptions is only adding to the woes of being a leader in the current times. Generational shifts at workplace combined with business model disruptions is only adding to the woes of being a leader in the current times.

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Leadership Uncertainty Agility Learning-by-Doing 184

Women's Leadership Exchange

MAY 16, 2010

ve gathered up all that learning and am applying it to our business in the new decade. s business model. Do research on what your target audience wants and be willing to really shake up your business. 2009 was about reducing costs and staying in business. 2010 is about growing the business.

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Business Model Conference PR Learning-by-Doing 70

Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

In Creative Construction , Gary Pisano says that when big organizations fail to innovate, the root cause is often related to “management practice and leadership than with organizational scale per se.” Creative construction requires a delicate balance of exploiting existing resources and capabilities without becoming imprisoned by them.”.

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Innovation Company Construction Creativity 283

Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

Create innovative Business Models: “To profitable serve African customers in meaningful numbers companies need to build high efficiency and low cost into their business models.” You will have to dispense with generalizations, and truly understand the differences in countries’ wealth, growth, and risk profiles.”.

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How To Long-term Short-term Business Model 254

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Eisenmann introduces the Diamond-and-Square framework to help aspiring entrepreneurs know whether they have actually identified an attractive opportunity and determine what types of resources are required to successfully capitalize on it. Does that startup have a proven business model? Speed Trap. Help Wanted.

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Early Adopters Entrepreneur Mass Marketing Marketing 204

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage. A company is only as good as its people.

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How To Strategic Planning Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage 116

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 17, 2024

Among other things, which will make some initiatives that on their own may appear sensible, are actually a waste of resources. But very few people question the efficacy of the models, even though they don’t work. Don’t let your models own you in this way; you need to dump models that don’t work and adopt models that do.

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Rogers Strategic Planning Strategy Planning 112

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The best tool will fit your company’s current needs, its stage of life, your ideal level of detail, the community and resources associated with the tool, and your desired outcome. As a business searching for a core alignment tool, you are in one of three categories: starting out, stuck, or striving. Stage of Life. Your Desired Outcome.

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Tools Learning-by-Doing System Long-term 244

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

As the investor leader, you are tasked with tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. Experience should equip a candidate to be able to: Synthesize your portfolio company business model and value proposition, and assess your firm’s ability to compete; Imagine and propagate a strategy and plan.

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Execution Company CEO Skills 384

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. If you check your ego at the door and give a thoughtful, introspective evaluation of your ability, it is likely that you’ll learn something about your leadership abilities or lack thereof.

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Blog Leadership Benchmarking Tactics 310

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Take note: “The right protégé will complement your leadership skills and style, provide honest feedback, make you feel that you have extra hours in the day, and enable your influence to persist even after you’ve moved on to your next role or opportunity.”. Rule of thumb: the more significant the investment, the bigger the payout.”.

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Loyalty Mentor Politics Skills 267

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

Greater meaning comes from understanding what caused customers to buy what we’re selling, and how effectively we applied our resources to deliver our offering. The “how” touches on things like effective resource allocation, pricing strategy, and relationship value, all toward the purpose of earning and sustaining relevance with customers.

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Metrics Attrition Price Cost 241

Mills Scofield

JUNE 3, 2014

We talk about “social businesses” — those that are mission-led and focused on creating positive social change — and “non-social businesses” — those that focus on revenue and profit. Social entrepreneurs launching ventures may ask themselves if their business models need to be different.

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Business Model Venture Capitalist B2C Entrepreneur 175

Mills Scofield

JUNE 9, 2014

The comments centered on two themes: Investment funding’s acceptance of “Social” as a viable type of business. Business Modeling – social vs. regular. Business Model: As an early adopter and co-creator of Alex Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas (BMC) , I use it the most.

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ROI Business Model Venture Capitalist Early Adopters 132

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With Horwath’s guidance, leaders will master the four dimensions of strategic fitness that contribute to executive performance: Strategy Fitness : Ability to understand and develop strategy, set direction, allocate resources, make decisions, and create competitive advantage. A company is only as good as its people.

Tactics 73

Tactics Strategic Planning Strategic Fit How To 73

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Ernst & Young Purpose Is Deeper Than Profit Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Small to midsize businesses often have a good understanding of why they do what they do. The founder who started the company might still be involved, and their presence and leadership help the purpose remain clear. But as your business grows, the founder exits, and new leaders join the company, it’s easy to lose sight of the purpose.

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Mission Statement Leadership Organization Core Competence 78

Lead from Within

JUNE 4, 2019

A lot of people in leadership dream about becoming the CEO of a company. As an executive leadership coach, I have the privilege of working with numerous CEOs. Here is a little insight into the things that trouble CEOs: The human reality of leadership. Creating new business models in light of disruptive technologies.

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Supply Chain CEO Talent Management Stress 167

Leading Blog

MAY 16, 2020

They will use them to develop new products and services, to build new channels, to elevate their talent, to increase their business resilience, and to develop entirely new business models along the way. He was born in the U.K. and became a U.S. citizen in 2008.

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Innovation Supply Chain Technology Wireless 265

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A new paper from INSEAD documents a trial undertaken to test a new training program for entrepreneurs that aims to help improve their competencies in areas such as networking, human capital management and business model innovation. This paper suggests in some ways, it most definitely can.

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Entrepreneur Human Capital Skills Social Capital 73

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. In fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs who are not consistently reengineering elements of their business fall into one of the following two camps; 1) They have a perfect business, or; 2) They are an ineffective CEO.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 288

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The type and extent of training needed can vary significantly based on factors such as your business model, the size of your establishment, the complexity of your menu, and more. Food Safety Trainings for Kitchen Staff and Waiters Food safety is paramount in any food service business.

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Training Mentor How To Technology 91

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

In an effort to better understand when and how corporate cultures change, CCL and corporate leaders surveyed a group of global VPs and directors in HR, Learning & Development, Leadership, and Talent Management. Almost half of respondents point to their CEO’s new business model as a cultural transformation driver.

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Altman Decentralization COO Restructuring 76

CO2

JUNE 9, 2014

The harm comes from taking resources away from what their customers consider to be core offerings. CO2 Partners uses the Business Model Generator for strategic planning; it identifies the critical elements of your business so you can focus on what is most important. If not, you should allocate your resources elsewhere.

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Core Competence Prahalad Competitive Advantage Strategic Planning 95

QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Big companies have all the required resources, but also a lot of red-tape and resistance to change. Innovation can take many forms from operational innovation to business models and creating platforms. Focus 70% of your resources in improving existing technology (i.e. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership.

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Innovation Deming Agility Resistance 97

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2021

He recommended redirecting resources towards increasing tech and security to get ready for a possible work from home move for the company. Essentially, you should alter your internal and external business models if your goal is for your company to survive and thrive throughout these uncertain months. Guiding Back to Efficiency.

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