Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 21, 2015

More than ever, telling the whole truth has become a competitive advantage. Outsmart the competition by being an explainer. 3 Ways to Outsmart the Competition by Being an Explainer. This is part 2 of 7 ways to outsmart the competition. I’ve made a career of telling bad news well.

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Competitive Advantage Outsourcing Career Energy 180

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

it’s also critical to attracting and retaining premier talent to gain a competitive advantage in today’s competitive talent environment. Our focus on innovation in talent is what allows EY people to build meaningful careers with impact. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

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Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Leadership Manifesto – Why You Need One and How to Get Started. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting provided How to Choose a Great Mentor. Adaptability is no longer just a competitive advantage. I hope that’s the case. Let’s Get Started.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 15, 2014

Time ticked away and they started to loose their competitive advantage. Beth is a trusted executive consultant, Vistage Chair, and committed volunteer. Beth Armknecht Miller career advice coaching' Yet he could not get his other two partners to commit to making the necessary investment.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Delegation Advice 238

Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

Being known as an organization where the best people want to work isn’t just an HR issue—it brings a serious competitive advantage when the best people want to be part of your team. But to retain your best people, you have to provide room for advancement with a career path and meaningful professional development.

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How To Competitive Advantage Reputation Executive Coaching 167

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Lisa Kohn of Chatsworth Consulting submitted Four Key Steps to Being, and Getting More Done. Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Developing Team Norms, Why it Doesn’t Work and what to Do Instead. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted As a Leader, Be so Good They Can’t Ignore You.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 24, 2013

It’s also hard to keep a competitive advantage a secret these days, so again, it’s astounding to me that so many companies can’t figure out how to develop leaders by stealing the best practices from those that do or stumbling on proven, tried and true , research-backed leadership development models, tools, and practices.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. Make your culture a competitive advantage – it’s the only competitive advantage that lasts. Yes, there are so many. Breaking a traditional rule is a freeing activity.

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The British army’s professional soldiers were superbly trained, disciplined against the chaos of battle, equipped with the latest weaponry and led by experienced career officers. Regardless of the size and resources you’re up against, you will certainly have some competitive advantages of your own.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most organizations, and even most strategy consultants, are using strategic planning frameworks built for business models that were designed during the industrial age. It is time to INNOVATE – It is time to drive out the complexity, elitism, rigidity, waste, and ruined careers from the current one-size-fits-all strategy paradigm.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Innovation Competitive Advantage 150

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 305

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before you know it the herd mentality of the legions of politically correct consultants and advisers use said practice area as a platform to be evangelized, and the necessity of common sense and the reality of what actually works often times gets thrown out the window as a trade-off for promotional gain. consultants, etc.),

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It was a pain by then but during the rest of my career that mentality has stuck with me and I found that its always easier comming up with the simple solution in the first place rather than dealing with complex workflows until you have had enough and go back to simplify it.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

of Germane Consulting submitted How To Define Your Company Purpose. Chery Gegelman of Giana Consulting submitted 11 Tips For Dealing With Manipulators. Dana Theus of In Power Consulting submitted Fearless Feedback. Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog contributed Seven Ways To Sell Your Ideas to Management.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 150

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

This is the essence of sacrifice – a lesson that served me well for the rest of my career. Consulting opened my eyes to the glaring and repeated errors made by dwellers of the C-suite and their understudies. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 22, 2013

At the end of the day, in today’s hyper-competitive global economy, talent just might be the only remaining sustainable competitive advantage. It could be someone from HR, a consultant, or even a trusted experienced peer. How successful would your team or organization be without talented, high performing people?

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Review Talent Management Follow-up Bottom-up 248

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 19, 2011

o Enhance their ability As job security has decreased - and global competition has increased - the need to update and refine skills continually has become critical in maintaining professional careers. A role model for providing positive networking is strategy consulting firm McKinsey.

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McKinsey Loyalty Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 152

LDRLB

JULY 23, 2012

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because of marketplace leverage and economies of scale. John Bell is a strategy consultant and former CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Kraft, Nabob).

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Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 121

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Why do some consultants get $50,000 a day for their time, while others have to give their time away? Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market? Therefore the pricing that I’ll be sharing today reflects what I charge for my personal coaching/consulting time.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 26, 2011

In the early 1980s I had the opportunity to work as a consultant in several of America's largest organizations. If you wore a white shirt, showed up, and met minimal expectations, you had a job for your entire career. Global Competition In the 1950s managers and professionals in the U.S. had a huge competitive advantage.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

For Your Success For businesses on the cutting edge: companies proactive in seeking a competitive advantage; progressive firms open to adopt new innovations. … Executive Development Opportunities.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Trust is ultimately inspired, critical business relationships blossom, careers advance. By demonstrating respect toward others, professionals at all levels automatically earn respect, lead more effectively, motivate others to get the job done and advance in their careers. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Consultative Skills CFO Competitive Advantage 56

Strategy Driven

MAY 1, 2015

Many became 'consultants' of one sort or another. Some sites offered the platform to become a consultant with a national firm by paying them subscription fees. The already inflated world of “reputation management” websites lured people into buying advertising in order to create the facade of being a “consultant.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

Many became ‘consultants’ of one sort or another. Some sites offered the platform to become a consultant with a national firm by paying them subscription fees. Consultants conduct programs designed by their companies, in repetitive motion. High level strategists create all knowledge in their consulting.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2023

Some may want to pursue a career separate from the family enterprise, while some who join the family business may feel an extra level of intensity around performance expectations. Barbara Dartt is a Principal Consultant for The Family Business Consulting Group. Their new book is Own It!

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How To Diversity Open-book Consultative 303

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Do You Have a Balanced Reading (and Learning) Diet? We book worms of years gone by now may even have a competitive advantage. You can’t talk about this too much.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

StrategyDriven Professional Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques business professionals can use to accelerate their careers and personal goals achievement. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan.

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Human Resources Open-book Competitive Advantage Resistance 58

HR Digest

JANUARY 21, 2019

Fathers, in particular, believe they’re penalized for taking parental leave and believe their careers have flagged compared to their peers without children. Encourage working dads to take advantage of them. Executional excellence on paid family leave policy can prove to be a competitive advantage.

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Bond Policies Career Report 53

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Professional Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques business professionals can use to accelerate their careers and personal goals achievement. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan.

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SWOT Human Resources Letter Competitive Advantage 55

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties? If so, analyze and align with those situations, rather than with the fruitless ones.

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Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 90

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2015

Mike Goldman is a nationally recognized speaker, consultant and author of the book Performance Breakthrough: The 4 Secrets of Passionate Organizations. He has over 25 years consulting and coaching companies from the local entrepreneur to the Fortune 500. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2013

StrategyDriven Professional Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques business professionals can use to accelerate their careers and personal goals achievement. With more than twenty-five years of human resource and management consulting experience, Wendy has spent most of her career at the University of Michigan.

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