N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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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. I always appreciate your insights William.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

How important is face-to-face networking to sales, relationships, career, and success? I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. How to hire, fire, train, and market business. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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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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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. It transformed my business and career. Serve to Lead discusses this at some length. I suspect we're just on the surface of the implications of the world that's rising in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:)

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does." You will be paid a lot more to forget your uneasy feelings."

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In many cases, it is more closely linked to getting the green light than even financing and business fundamentals. These champions are “the lions,” because they are motivated by a desire to advance their company’s competitive position and aggressively dominate an emerging trend or market. Advancement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Which markets, partners, clients, or other opportunities can add significant value to our business? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. What specific steps can you take to increase your area’s contribution margin? Does this add value to our core business?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Throughout my professional career, I have navigated multiple industry segments from professional services to consumer goods and served a decade+ stint in the insurance sector. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H. by Thomas H.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be very busy, but rarely are they productive. I completely agree with General Patton.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There’s urgency here because we believe the role of technology in the labor market will become more pronounced as artificial intelligence and machine learning affect white-collar jobs in much the same way that robotics has affected blue-collar jobs.

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