Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The Key to Business and Career Success. There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. ” -Stan Silverman. How to Earn Trust.

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Silverman Career Succession Ethics 114

Lead from Within

APRIL 6, 2023

Upskilling and reskilling will not only give your team a much-needed motivational boost, but will also position the company to thrive in the job market and the future. Upskilling and reskilling: The pandemic has created new priorities and opportunities within companies, sometimes leading to completely new roles.

How To 170

How To Diversity Competitive Advantage Teamwork 170

HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2024

In an exclusive interview with HR Digest, Trent Henry, EY’s Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), shares key strategies driving EY’s commitment to diversity, innovation, employee well-being, and leadership development. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

Diversity 52

Diversity Career Globalization Learning-by-Doing 52

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

This type of work is nuanced and requires leadership skills that are often overlooked in business school. Executive leadership training programs can offer support and meaningful dialogue to master new challenges effectively. What is an Executive Leadership Training Program?

Training 52

Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Companies have begun to take more proactive leadership roles in advancing equity within their organizations and in society more broadly. Additionally, as businesses work to recover, the labor market is extremely competitive. Communicate skills-based career pathways. Adopt a skills-first approach to talent acquisition.

Diversity 122

Diversity Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Report 122

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2014

Every organization is looking to create and protect its competitive advantage and those often come in two flavors – resources or capabilities – and talent (your people) help you create, sustain and protect both. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. About the Author.

Marketing 89

Marketing Management Talent Management Competitive Advantage 89

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. His warnings were dismissed and ignored.

Competitive Advantage 120

Competitive Advantage Class Execution Innovation 120

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Van Gorder : Spend time with them.

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Van Gorder : Spend time with them.

Books 65

Books Leadership Ethics Morale 65

Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Whether it’s your social life, family or career, one thing you can count on is the consistency of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change.

Strategy 52

Strategy Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 52

Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2019

In many fields, the workplace has become a candidate’s market where the best people have their pick of jobs. 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 it doesn’t just happen by chance.

How To 167

How To Competitive Advantage Reputation Executive Coaching 167

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Over the course of his career as an entrepreneur, he has directly witnessed many of the benefits that I listed above. Why It’s So Important to Trust and Believe in People My father, who started a business from scratch with my grandfather in Venezuela, taught me a lot about the importance of trusting in your people.

Loyalty 244

Loyalty Competitive Advantage Retail Commitment 244

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. But hold on for a moment.

Sports 228

Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

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. Our employees embraced our values and so too did our executive leadership. Change is inevitable in any company.

Leadership 52

Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Dr. Anne Perschel from Germane Insights shares “ The Secret Ingredient of Great Leadership ”.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Coaching Tip

MAY 7, 2012

Business and government leaders have been talking for decades about advancing more women to top leadership and professional roles. Young women today are entering the workforce better prepared and more ambitious than ever, with more education and higher career aspirations than men. Rethinking Leadership. When McKinsey & Co.

McKinsey 112

McKinsey Leadership Career Diversity 112

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises.

Human Resources 183

Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. That night, I presented the marketing strategy that catapulted a regional brand to national leadership in Canada. This is the essence of sacrifice – a lesson that served me well for the rest of my career.

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Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

Leadership 284

Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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.

Power 208

Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

At a critical junction in the American Revolution, George Washington used superior leadership to turn the tables on a stronger competitor – and so can you. But in my experience, effective leadership can level the playing field. Effective leadership turns the tables. Find your advantages, and put them to work.

Advice 227

Advice Open-book Competitive Advantage Globalization 227

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. That reinvention led him to that 1973 hospital security director job.

Books 50

Books Leadership Ethics Morale 50

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. He has presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position.

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Books Leadership Ethics Morale 83

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. 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.

Blog 305

Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 305

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. Count up how much time is spent reviewing the earning per share, revenue, profit, sales quotas, manufacturing capacity, inventory, marketing strategy, and other topics. Take notes.

Review 248

Review Talent Management Follow-up Bottom-up 248

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?

Organization 158

Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

They would tell you that the classic strong leadership traits that define our nation’s best military leaders are outdated, and that they don’t display a proper amount of empathy and compassion. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] patriciazell Wow…thanks, Mike!

Brand 353

Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 353

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 21, 2012

For 150 years, corporations, governments and militaries were built for up-and-down leadership, with incentives and rewards that discouraged cross-organization thinking and, in many cases, actually created or encouraged internal competition. Focus on authentic leadership and eschew passive aggressiveness.

Incentives 258

Incentives Agility Resources Follow-up 258

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

In a market as competitive as today, employees also act as a competitive advantage. Businesses whose employees are happy produce better results and can be more agile on the market. You can use online resources such as SalariesHub.com to find out more about what employees expect from a position or a career.

Agility 51

Agility Competitive Advantage Cost Insurance 51

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. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. But hold on for a moment.

Sports 121

Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 121

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.

Business Model 344

Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

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.

Blog 334

Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If that sounds terrifying, it’s because most of us have been conditioned to hide our flaws for fear of punishment, reprisal or a rival seizing a competitive advantage. It means you’re probably going places in your career. Alan chose the other path. Triggers is a #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller!

Competitive Advantage 70

Competitive Advantage Video Report Executive Coaching 70

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. The N2growth Blog is pleased to announce its inclusion in the list.

Directory 167

Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

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

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.

Bureaucracy 151

Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151