Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2021

Seemingly random conversations would often veer toward career choices and job opportunities. Just a couple of decades ago, stopping by a prospective place of employment could help propel your career to new heights. Instead of focusing solely on your goals and what your network can do for you, broaden the horizons a bit.

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HR Digest

JULY 11, 2019

A better approach is to be specific about your goal and how you intend to bring your skills and expertise to the position. Pioneered ‘College & Career Night.’. Example: Implemented company-wide book reading practice that led to better workflow and higher productivity. Sample Action Verbs Statements. Prioritized. Researched.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Each medium comes with its own tools, database, and strategies — only by combining all can your business stay on top of your competition… and crush your topline goals and quotas. Bottom line: Your products and services should be where your clients are. The time is now. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

It has been my experience that whenever methodologies become productized objectivity is removed from the equation. Whenever you are being pitched a product as a solution I suggest you exercise extreme caution.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." is a leadership, career, and marketing expert and coach.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Figure out what is sucking up your time preventing you from being productive and profitable. Business Goals: Goals, like those leg warmers and jelly shoes, go out of style. So toss them away (goals and jelly shoes) and bring your goals up-to-date. Business - Business- Business. Successful accomplishment of.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Sometimes people engage in plain old-fashioned bad behavior. Low productivity. Confusion about goals. If team members don’t understand the distinction between what is good for them and what is good for the organization, it’s impossible to set clear goals. Pouting and yelling. Taking undue credit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

You can see the final product, but you can’t see all of the steps required to get there. A lot of discussions about how to achieve significant goals focus on grit, that combination of resilience and persistence that is required to stick with a big goal and see it to completion. Goal Setting. Rebecca Knight.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict, and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion, you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2015

In this case, however, the manager’s positive emotional state lead to both higher engagement levels and overall productivity. What these findings demonstrate is just how important it is for us to understand what matters to our employees so we can create opportunities for them to contribute in a meaningful fashion to our organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The goal of a leader is not to clone him/herself, but to harness individual strenghts for the greater good of the team and for the overall benefit of the organization. It is absolutely possible to build very productive relationships with even the most adversarial of individuals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. They either don’t value your contributions, or they know from experience that you’ll treat their inquiry in a belittling fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

You’ll find yourself creating unsuccessful products that don’t serve your customers. You will be helping your talent destroy their careers while you destroy their faith in your company. The question as to whether it’s our job to make our employees happy comes in and out of fashion over the decades.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. While being motivated solely by conquest may allow you to achieve a stated goal or objective, the cost will be great.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

If you’re still on the fence, I would request you try and answer the following question: If you can engage those with whom you conduct business, or otherwise desire to interact with in a meaningful and value added fashion why wouldn’t you do so? Thoughts? However the goal is not to do it quickly, it's to do it well.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

And when they don't deliver, or deliver an inferior product because it is beyond their scope, or capabilities, it further erodes the relationships with other departments, managers and each other. Trust, in turn, is the product of two components: Integrity and Ability. You ask how people feel when they get told no.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

General Charles Jacoby is a military leader whose career culminated as four-star Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Radical flattening of organizations is a fashionable recipe for dealing with accelerating change and uncertainty. They define agility and offer leaders a roadmap for navigating change.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

If that is your gift – leverage email, texts, etc to extend it, but not to replace the ‘old fashioned way’ Nice thought this morning Mary Jo. It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2012

I started out my career by aspiring to be like Dick Clark. The 1963 move from Philadelphia to California launched Dick Clark Productions. People are more products of the pop culture than they are of formal business training. Dick Clark Productions had a select list of projects. Insight offered about own life-career.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. I especially enjoy working with groups of people and getting them to talk together and learn from each other and to find ways to work together more productively.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2015

The discipline of product management is shifting from an external focus on the market, or an internal focus on technology, to an empathetic focus on people. Our goal is to form a master/apprentice relationship: we enter these research activities as a humble apprentice, expecting to learn from a master.

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 1, 2013

She is passionate about creating content-driven products that people love. Maximize Your Potential | How do you build a great creative career. Jocelyn and her team’s goal was to get 20 super smart thought leaders to comment on this topic in a way that resonates with creative people – the makers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2011

Rarely do I encounter someone who gives me a big answer — goals that could fill 30 years. Perhaps most important, we should be figuring out ways to remain economically productive — whether through part-time or project-based work or even a new entrepreneurial venture. Financial motivations are part of the reason.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Instead, find out about his current motivations and the goals he has for the position. Connect with the candidate’s why.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. They don’t advertise or employ salespeople – yet they manage to make millions of dollars selling their products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2015

So they bought and rolled out a “leadership” system that required all managers to log five weekly development goals for themselves and their direct reports, and to track conversations about the multiplying objectives. Senior management decided that had to change, and that only forcing tactics would do the trick. Cynicism followed.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

They struggle to see how their labor contributes directly to the performance of the corporation, or how it helps the progress of their career. While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” Henrik Bunge is one such leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

His career has always been demanding- long hours, lots of travel, ultra-high performance standards (which he always has met or exceeded). The timing of the request also helped my friend; there had recently been conspicuous turnover among mid-career professionals at this firm. This is particularly true of knowledge work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 8, 2013

Conservative politicians were often the product of Britain''s elite public schools and they mostly sounded as if they had a silver spoon in their mouths. Britain was over-regulated, overtaxed, and under-productive. But once she had achieved her big goals, the sound and fury sounded increasingly shrill. Government Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

In consumer packaged goods, SC Johnson has sourced raw materials from farmers in Rwanda, partnered with local providers to improve hygiene and sanitation in low-income urban communities in Kenya, and chosen to eliminate harmful chemicals from its production processes in spite of the negative consequences for its market share.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

’” And such always-on cultures actually sabotage productivity. If this discussion leads to the conclusion that constant availability is required to meet the goals of the organization, that’s a corporate issue that needs to be addressed. The research has shown that more downtime correlates to more benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

But because aid workers lacked reliable information and channels to communicate, their activities were disjointed and sometimes counter-productive. By 1997 it had established AlertNet , originally fashioned as a private channel for aid workers and which later developed into the first global humanitarian news and information portal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

When people who share the same ambitious goals come together, they can move mountains. Any company that wants to improve collaboration, break down so-called siloes, or live into its diversity goals will be well-served by pursuing a deeper understanding of each.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 22, 2021

Today, some people seem to regard the notion of “conscience” as old-fashioned. Set your course, make the difficult choices, and determine what you’re willing to sacrifice to achieve your goals. You search the Internet, obtain advice from family and friends, read product reviews, and hear the news on TV and via social media.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2013

But our company makes software that is used across dozens of industry verticals — automotive, health care, hospitality, and the public sector — each with their own specific needs and goals. A walk down almost any street in Manhattan is likely to involve brushing shoulders with a huge cross-section of professionals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Your goal, says Johnson, is to “show that you understand the problem the other person is trying to solve and how your skills put you in a position to help.” Perhaps your direct reports tend to get promoted faster or your team is more productive. ” The goal is to create a connection on a human level.

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