N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Moreover, attracting these individuals to a particular organization requires not only competitive compensation packages but also a compelling company culture and opportunities for career advancement. Building a talent pipeline requires strategic planning and implementation of effective strategies that resonate with legal professionals.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. The Nuts and Bolts of the Strategic Plan [link]. Strategic Plans have to start with deep strategic thought and the right conviction. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link].

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

But often, these top-tier executives don’t know where to go to achieve this critical perspective and guidance at this stage in their careers. Executives who realize their potential can be far more satisfied with their careers and lives. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This transparency and clarity helped in executing the plan smoothly and with confidence.” In the workplace, it’s primarily used to identify areas of improvement, skill enhancement, and to chart career progression paths. Consider attending a workshop or course to enhance this skill.”

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

As you may know, a career in strategy or strategic planning implies you helping a corporation design their road to profitability and growth while overcoming competition and constant change. You can start your career in strategy at! Naturally, most of your responsibilities will deal with making the company run!

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Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

In it, Bogey reprised the 1930’s Broadway hit and movie that launched his career. I’m a big advocate of Strategic Planning and Visioning. I know from experience that planning while going through the ‘alligators’ is the most effective way to conduct the process. About the Author.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In today''s hyper-competitive job market, you have to be hardworking, smart and educated, but you also have to be politically astute. Chapter 25 of " When Doing It All Won''t Do: A Self-Coaching Guide for Career Women " agrees that tales of political sabotage, power plays and turf wars are part of every organization’s history.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Don’t you wish you had a GPS for your life and career? Wouldn’t it be great to simply plug in your dreams or goals for your life and career and have someone tell you in a very confident assuring voice how to get there? A “GPS Buddy ” could make a huge difference in how well you navigate in 2011 toward your life and career goals.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Make an equitable blend of ambition and desire: Fine-tuning one’s career is an admirable and necessary process. There are no fast-forward buttons or skipping steps inn developing an effective organization, just as there are no shortcuts in formulating a career and Body of Work. Entrepreneur is as entrepreneur does.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 9, 2015

A common mistake is for companies to think about the market segments that they are in instead of understanding the person who really uses their products and services. Allocate whatever time you can carve out, even one or two full days a quarter, just to think and plan. Then a few years down the road, their growth flat-lines.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Business models must be designed with great care at the outset, but they must also be fluid in order to react to changing market conditions and avoid becoming stagnant.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

They are those prickly little creatures that make noises like; “ Yabut, the banks will never back us on this one… Yabut, the market is totally unpredictable… Yabut, we’ve never done that before… ”. Let’s take Stephen, for example. And it’s worth it. About the Author. You just finished reading The attack of the Yabuts!

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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. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

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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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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 2, 2019

Winning organizations now rely on nimble, iterative problem solving, rather than the traditional planning processes. It used to be that you could learn the core skills for a career in college and graduate school – think management, accounting, law – and then apply it over forty years. We are seeing growing awareness of this.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Those who excelled at every assignment given and each stage of their career. Research leads to planning, which is the best way to accomplish tasks and benchmark success.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment? They don’t sit idly by and watch the business lose market share, suffer margin erosion, see their competitive value propositions vaporize, or watch their brand go into decline. They make changes.

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CO2

JANUARY 23, 2011

I remember when I was at the beginning of my career and calling on AARP as a direct marketer to do their work. Where has time gone. You know the work of calling on Senior Citizens. My wife, Chris , thought it would be quite amusing to put the direct mail on my desk, yes, including the membership card.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

That idea can also change you; believe me, there is nothing like a business breakthrough to set the right foundation for the rest of your career. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on. Mine was marketing. Your idea can change a company.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. This is true in boom times and recessions, from organizations being complacent through multiple successes, to newcomers coming in to take over the market.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2012

Long before it became fashionable, Saul was leveraging the power of business models in his career. That’s why we see so many good ideas either not make it to market or not for long. We know the importance of a living, adaptable, actionable strategic plan. It provides everyone with a common mission and purpose.

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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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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I believe the behavior of strategy tourists offer us a very useful career guide. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. Strategic Planning execution innovation leadership strategy' I’m sure you also know some.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2%). Access to global markets. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. Relate Articles: The Big Picture of Business – Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past, Planning for the Future. Customer retention. Higher sales.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Some performers made careers as supporting players. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. This historic teaming became the formula for most other TV sitcoms. Davis was Schultzy on “The Bob Cummings Show” and Alice on “The Brady Bunch.”.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. You offer a promising career and future for people with ideas and talent. Learn to pace and be in the chosen career for the long-run. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Plan and Benchmark. Systems and Processes. Culture and Mission.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Special Edition 49 – An Interview with Kathryn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top explores the approaches everyone in the corporate world can use, regardless of their current position, to shape their career development and accelerate their advancement.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I have had many excellent ones in my long career and have in turn mentored hundreds of others. The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. ” Approach your career as a body of work.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Where mid-managers buy the hype of the marketing slogans but stonewall the progress that would enable the company to live up to its claims. A career is all about devoting resources to amplifying talents and abilities, with relevancy toward a viable end result. The same analogies apply to personal lives, careers and Body of Work.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Mentoring, creating and leading have become the primary emphasis for your career. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not). Amplify upon philosophies of others.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2011

During his 36 year career, Frank has worked with many of the most recognized companies and executives in the world. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation ! About the Author Frank McIntosh is author of The Relational Leader (Course Technology PTR, Cengage Learning 2010).

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

But is simply enjoying stamp collecting enough to translate your hobby into a successful, thriving, and sustainable career? In my view, social media is still a relatively untapped resource—and it’s one tool every hobbyist already has at their disposal to do the most basic market research. Differentiate From Day One. Your own website?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

But first, ask yourself why you want to make a career out of your hobby? And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever! Boil down the essence of your purpose because it will drive you to success.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Everspark Interactive was founded in June 2009 by internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert, Jason Hennessey and 20-year marketing veteran, Chris Watson. Call to Action – Think of each video as it’s own marketing / pr / advertising campaign. What do you want your viewer to do?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Everspark Interactive was founded in June 2009 by internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert, Jason Hennessey and 20-year marketing veteran, Chris Watson. Chris Watson is a 20-year marketing veteran, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the magazine publishing industry.

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