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. John says, “It's about the developing core networking places and participating, getting involved, and establishing a leadership position.

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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. Far too often people end up rising the ladder only to find them in position for which they are ill prepared. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Positive Attitude: The opposite of leader is not follower. Maintain a positive attitude to show that you can help your employees rise above any personal or professional problems or conflicts at work by offering constructive feedback and avoiding harsh or critical reprimands. The same applies to employees. Get to know them!

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. 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. Is that the only way to think of it?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

Or as Igor Linkov, a coauthor, posits: "Can we design our countermeasures in a way that no matter what the threat is we still manage to do our best to recover fast?" For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 8

HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. Our employees consistently tell us that doing meaningful work, and being part of an organization that makes a positive impact, is very important to them. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

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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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. Other champions hope to use the deal to improve their company’s competitive position within an industry. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects. Advancement.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

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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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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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

What’s our biggest risk in this, and what’s your fallback position? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. What do you need from me in order to make that happen? That’s an interesting thought, what process did you go through to reach that conclusion?

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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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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In fact, at the risk of being controversial I’m going to take the position that perfection does not exist. 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.

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