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The Importance of Organizational Resilience

Experience to Lead

Businesses regularly establish routines in the way they operate, but when problems arise and they’re thrown a curve ball, those routines and competencies may no longer work for the situation managers find themselves in. Being approachable, transparent and innovative equips managers to deal with complex issues when they arise.

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The Heart of a Warrior

N2Growth Blog

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. I Think Not.

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The Downside of Best Practices | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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. And what are your strategic goals? As an example, Look at Apple!

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Directors Need to Care About Culture

In the CEO Afterlife

Imagine Apple without innovators or Zappos neglecting service or Whole Foods selling a slew of processed foods loaded with saturated fat. With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. That is sustainable competitive advantage.

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The Difference between Strategists and Strategic Planners

In the CEO Afterlife

Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Why don’t giant innovators like Apple, Google or Facebook have Strategic Planning Departments? The best ones bring clarity and purpose to a document that can be written on just one piece of paper.

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

It will be interesting to see if the next round of Google innovation will be as successful as the beauty of their initial simplicity. What's interesting is that many of their latest ventures have strayed from their historically simple roots into areas of great complexity. I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT @janemyatt Their sacrifice.