N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Whether you are a working at a company-wide, business unit, functional, or product level, formulating strategy, planning it, and executing it has become too complex, too structured, too rigid, too slow, and more than half of the time does not produce the promised results. IT’S TIME TO INNOVATE STRATEGY. STRATEGY INNOVATION.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Why don’t giant innovators like Apple, Google or Facebook have Strategic Planning Departments?

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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

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral. Has this been useful?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Donna Morris, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer at Walmart, discusses the world’s largest retailer’s priorities when selecting future leadership pipeline, and why companies who hire a diverse talent do better than others. At Walmart, people are at the core of our business.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. From my experience, these six characteristics encapsulate the competitive business culture. This is a tremendous competitive advantage for the smaller player.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 16, 2014

Cash flow, receivables, intellectual property, brands, careers everything flows from the idea. So, why don''t companies give more resources to strategic innovation? Elevate shows executives how to combine strategy and innovation to form a truly competitive advantage.". Related articles.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Many of the executives I work with are brutally honest and give themselves an F. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Four Solutions if You’re Feeling Overworked and Underappreciated at Work. John Hunter of Curious Cat submitted Technological Innovation and Management. The same applies in life and business.

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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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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor. Let me give you a great example…It is not at all uncommon for an executive to tell me that his/her business doesn’t really have any competition.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

I believe the same characteristics that are present in the heart of a warrior are also present in the most successful executives and entrepreneurs. The more I began to ponder the heroism of our military (past and present), the more I began to consider the traits possessed by our nation’s warriors. I Think Not.

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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. These seven steps can help you: 1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2012

Is it the ability to recognize sources of sustainable competitive advantage? And then, drive execution accordingly? More information about Irv Rothman and OUT-EXECUTING THE COMPETITION can be found at www.IrvRothman.com. Is it the ability to develop a clear and inspiring vision?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Executives play in a bigger league; they play for higher stakes; and the game is for keeps. Doing the day-to-day, hands-on work doesn’t fit the job description of the executive; driving the strategy, developing the bench, and making high-caliber decisions have become the new coinage of the realm.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. And what are your strategic goals? As an example, Look at Apple!

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2019

The data highlighted clear divergence in how various layers of the business view upskilling, with senior executives placing more emphasis on technology than skills, whereas those on the frontline had understandable concern about their future career path. ” A competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Chief Executive An online magazine written exclusively for chief executive officers and their peers. ** N2′s Top pick for C-suite insights and information. CFO.com Web magazine targeted to senior financial executives. … Executive Development Opportunities. Business2.0 Inc.com Inc.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Beth Miller of Executive Velocity submitted If You Aren’t Revisiting Your Employees’ Goals, How Are You Helping Them Grow? Jane Perdue of the Braithwaite Innovation Group contributed How To Involve The Right People In The Right Way. Outsmart the competition by being an explainer.”

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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. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 3, 2011

Recession years and continuously tough competition in world markets made individual innovation and productivity improvements among the very few opportunities for most businesses who want to gain and retain a competitive advantage. Early Warning. You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. 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.&# Sound harsh?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

In today’s post I’ll share two events which occurred over the past week that inspired me to write about why I believe all business executives can learn valuable leadership lessons from those in uniform. From personal experience I can absolutely guarantee you that these same traits will serve you well as a business leader.

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Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

We book worms of years gone by now may even have a competitive advantage. Leanne Hoagland-Smith, Increase Sales Coach Reply Kevin Eikenberry October 8, 2010 at 9:46 am Leanne - It is a clear an undeniable competitive advantage, and one that anyone can gain by decision and discipline.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2013

StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. We explore the reasons for this shortfall in detail and discuss an innovative approach to maximize the off-site experience.

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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. Ideas on their own accord are really quite useless.

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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. Incremental improvements are good business, while disruptive innovation is great business – a game changer. Disruptive innovation is the game changer that shatters the status quo. Focus on value creation.

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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. They usually spend much of the day managing their teams, dealing with executives, interviewing new hires, and often have their own workload to produce.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well, it depends on what you want and need out of your relationships and career. We can choose to look at failures, at least in our daily lives, as life practice, learning, a pilot project, as experimentation, or even a legitimate part of any innovation process. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2%). Faster innovation. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. Customer retention.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

More than half of senior executives experienced a backlog of at least two years on critical new analytics applications. When the CEO assigns ownership of analytics, that executive will command bigger budgets and more time on the board agenda and will oversee a powerful new pool of resources. But poor ROI is only part of the story.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2012

and 57 females for every 43 males in the UK, according to data from the Center for Talent Innovation. Yet as employees in large corporations move up the career ladder, men advance disproportionately. The Old Boys' Club is not just alive but entrenched in UK executive suites. In both the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

When executed well, the results are astonishing. Indeed, multicultural organizational capabilities are becoming as significant a source of competitive advantage as other core elements of business strategy. Is your organization prepared?

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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. Bring them out of the shadows.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

They are the skill bearers and knowledge experts corporations will rely on to gain competitive advantage in the coming decades. Approaching or already in the prime of their lives and careers, they are prepared and poised for leadership. Now in their late 30s and 40s, Xers make up the bench strength for management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

In addition to pulling out all the traditional retention stops — competitive salary, recognition, effective career coaching — the McKinsey team found several other approaches that have proven effective in keeping techies in the fold. Perhaps this is why many executives also struggle with it."

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