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. I Think Not.

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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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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away.

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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. Jane Perdue of the Braithwaite Innovation Group contributed How To Involve The Right People In The Right Way.

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. This is the essence of sacrifice – a lesson that served me well for the rest of my career. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage.

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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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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. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# Inc.com Inc. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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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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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&# If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage.

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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. I Think Not.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If you cannot turn an idea into innovation, if you can’t put thought into practice, it’s not a game changer. If it’s not really meaningful, it’s not a game changer so why do it? Focus on value creation. A ctionable – It’s not a game changer if whatever “it” is never gets off the drawing board.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience. Dan Parisi, Executive Vice President at BTS, a leading strategy execution consulting firm focused on the development and delivery of high-impact experiential learning initiatives that drive strategic priorities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Create a competitive advantage, set the right tone, make effective decisions, keep talent inside your doors, and establish credibility-all while navigating unfamiliar and turbulent waters. Decision making, on the other hand, requires innovative thinking and separates those who land in the executive chair from those who don’t.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

Captain Mark Brouker, retired US Navy , is a wealth of practical leadership wisdom gained from his military career as well as his experience as a professor, executive coach, and speaker. This is a simple leadership behavior that can be leveraged to be a significant competitive advantage for any organization. Be proactive.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2014

Go ahead and build a “managers community” on your Intranet and post all of the information they need to do their job, build their career, and deliver business success there. Jeremy Henderson is founder and chief client partner at Jungle Red Communication , an employee engagement consulting firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Listen to Angelia Herrin, Editor for Special Projects and Research at HBR interview Dr. Terri Cooper, Principal and Chief Inclusion Officer of Deloitte Consulting, about the importance of building inclusive leaders throughout your organization. And leveraging it for competitive advantage. Terri Cooper, Deloitte Consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

Reflecting on the fact that Holly routinely plays with both our iPad and Kinect , I said to my wife, "I think the odds that Holly actually uses a laptop during her working career are pretty close to zero.". Look at the seemingly prosaic world of consulting. Innovation is the imperative of today's times. I joined McKinsey & Co.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

Too many calls for outside support from consultants. High-achieving executives have been shaped by the pivotal experiences of their careers, yet analytics requires executives to think beyond these mental models. ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. Frequent restructurings of the analytics function.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Born between 1965 and 1978, they are the bench strength for leadership, the skill bearers and knowledge experts corporations will rely on to gain competitive advantage in the coming decades. Approaching or already in their prime of their careers, they are ready and willing to lead. I need something new to keep things fresh."

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

If you can't find 'em, you better keep 'em and train 'em, say three McKinsey consultants writing in their firm's eponymous quarterly. The Competitive Advantage of Doing More with Less (European Business Journal). What to do? Has big pharma cracked the code to solving their pipeline problems? But this is no sure winner.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. Read more at this blog post How Your Shoddy Reputation Could Destroy Your Budding Career.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Consulting firms in the U.S. The reality seems less impressive, as a global IBM survey of more than 1,700 CEOs found that 71% identified human capital as a key source of competitive advantage, yet a global study by Tata Consultancy Services showed that only 5% of big-data investments were in human resources.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Why should we make this investment?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Typically a graphic depiction of the organizational components to be addressed in a redesign (for example, McKinsey’s 7S model, which includes strategy, structure, systems, staff, skills, and so on), every consultant and his brother flogs an organization design model. Through low-cost sourcing and manufacturing?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

A consulting friend, Susaan Straus , points to cognitive preference as an important factor. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for. The company was too big for that."

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

In her excellent TEDx talk, The Woman Effect – Video and the Research Behind It , Dana Theus of InPower Consulting Blog examines the modern state of feminine leadership and invites us to show up and participate. The Workplace Environment: Culture, Change, Innovation, and Empowerment. in Enable Employees with Liberating Rules.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

To concentrate on customer solutions, Palmisano spun off personal computers and disk drives and acquired PriceWaterhouseCoopers' consulting business. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

To pursue this issue, I picked a new research setting where the reward system is highly constrained — and so is the career ladder. The parallels with business are clear: Stars are a crucial but perhaps fragile source of innovation and competitive advantage. And they faced big constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

In my research and consultancy with companies, I observe that, oftentimes, no individual or group is functionally responsible for overseeing the arrangement of their company from end to end. The best performing companies are often the best aligned. The cost to this is that network-based organizations are complex to manage and hard to control.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

The art with which we build our careers and our legacy is a journey that benefits many others along the way. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve.

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