Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Embracing innovative tools and technologies is no longer optional; it’s a strategic imperative. This personalized guidance enhances the quality of your decisions. Improving Customer Understanding: In the age of AI, understanding your customers on a deeper level is a competitive advantage.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Consider the CEO who urges teamwork but designs incentives for individual success, who invites innovation but punishes failure, who emphasizes quality but pays for quantity. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentives. The result: mixed signals.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2021

Raising wages and offering attractive benefit packages are the primary and traditional tools employers have used to attract and retain quality people. Connected, engaged employees are more collaborative, innovative, and productive. The pandemic has caused many people to re-evaluate their work lives and what they are willing to accept.

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Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

One of the most important qualities of a good leader is the ability to be humble. While some people live by the mantra “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” leaders can’t afford to have this mindset if they want to stay viable and competitive. Do you want to retain your competitive advantage?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This entails assessing the workforce requirements and identifying key talent needs to drive innovation and growth. Through strategic planning and execution, the CPO leads the charge in attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, creating a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared 3 areas of competitive advantage for you and your team. Sean writes: “ Ultimately, the greatest competitive advantage you can have is the QUALITY OF YOUR INTERNAL TEAM CULTURE. And CULTURE is a symptom of LEADERSHIP. 7 Key Steps.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Increasing your Collective Leadership Effectiveness will give you a competitive advantage. Is your leadership a competitive advantage? The LQ score for an organization measures the degree to which leadership is a competitive advantage or disadvantage. An LQ score of 1.0

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This leads to happy, loyal employees with a rich quality of life, which in turn leads to an amazing culture.” ? Innovation is saying no to a thousand things.” – Steve Jobs. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and rare.” – Patrick Lencioni. Larry English.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Increase the quality of empowerment; mobilize to maximize effort – ideate. These rules create greater value with lower cost and even lower effort, helping to avoid unneeded turbulence to decision-makers who are responsible for navigating the organization through the rough waves of the deep blue oceans of competition. Get Into It….

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 4, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article co-authored by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton for The McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company, in which they explain how and why organizational social-media literacy is fast becoming a source of competitive advantage.

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HR Digest

APRIL 4, 2023

In today’s competitive job market, employers are continually looking for new and innovative ways to attract and retain top talent. These benefits are designed to improve the quality of life for employees, increase employee engagement , and make the company more attractive to job seekers.

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HR Digest

APRIL 17, 2023

This skill-based approach can lead to a more innovative and adaptable organization that is better equipped to respond to changing business conditions and emerging opportunities. This, in turn, leads to increased productivity and quality of work. Finally, a skill-based organization is vital for innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2021

I believe that over time, employers are going to lean toward having people work in the office because it promotes collaboration and innovation. These six distinct advantages for groups add up to a powerful performance advantage. But is that what workers want?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

And yet while efficiency is critical and often a competitive advantage, it is a problem when it becomes a mindset that is applied to everything we do; when it becomes an excuse for our lack of real connection. The efficiency—quality and flexibility—you get from people is primarily based on the relationship you have with them.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2018

It’s here that corporate leaders can learn a lot, particularly now that it’s becoming increasingly apparent that people (not products or processes) are the largest source of competitive advantage for a business. Put simply: without putting the right people in the right environment to succeed, your company will flounder.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

AQ is defined as “the ability to adjust course, product, service, and strategy in response to unanticipated changes in the market”— and indeed, the Harvard Business Review characterised it as “the new competitive advantage.” There are many examples of companies that have failed to extol the virtues of an AQ mindset.

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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. World-class competitors can do it.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 22, 2011

In Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage Keller and Price reinforce the decades of accumulating research showing that roughly 70% of organizational change programs fail. Innovation and Learning&#. Act : How do we manage the journey? Advance : How do we keep moving forward?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Survive, Reset, Thrive (SRT) is a practical and innovative interconnected three-mode approach : Survive : Stabilizing your business when a shot hits. The book brings together more than 15 years of Homkes working directly with high-growth companies of all sizes and across a wide variety of industries. Taking proactive measures.

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HR Digest

MARCH 30, 2023

Recruitment is a critical function of the Human Resources (HR) department , and with the increasing competition for top talent, recruiters are constantly looking for innovative approaches to enhance their recruitment strategies. Finally, it promotes diversity and inclusion by removing bias from the recruitment process.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 3, 2018

Organizations populated with lonely people experience lower employee engagement, poorer quality of decisions, and a reduced rate of innovation. Loneliness makes people less sociable, less cooperative and less collaborative, which further isolates them and makes them vulnerable to stress-induced anxiety, depression and suicide.

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CO2

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Ripple Effect on Innovation and Engagement : Positive changes in team dynamics lead to higher employee engagement and innovation. Teams become more adaptable to change and are better equipped to tackle challenges collectively, driving competitive advantage​ ​​ ​​ ​.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Along the way, the leaders of these organizations turned their backs on the tenets of great branding, defined as carving out unique brand positions and adding to that strategic advantage with innovations that thrill customers. This type of business leverage has been their back-pocket competitive advantage for more than half a century.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

For starters, people who are disconnected experience lower sleep quality and diminished self-control to eat healthy and exercise. Teams and organizations with higher levels of connection have higher employee engagement, tighter strategic alignment, better decision making, higher rates of innovation, and greater agility and adaptability.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Sadly, this is what is thought of as “quality” in the digital age. Websites that sell products are digital platforms, not the arbitrators of quality in the business world. Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Quality entails four concepts: Success is determined by conformity to requirements.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

Employees communicate better information to improve the quality of decision-making, 4. Employees actively engage in efforts that lead to innovation, and 5. Together, these five benefits of connection add up to a powerful source of competitive advantage. Employees are smarter, happier and more productive.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

Related to that is collaboration and innovation. Sobel-Lojesky and her colleagues have found that when virtual distance is relatively high, a number of negative effects arise, including: innovative behaviors decline by more than 90%, trust declines by more than 80%, cooperative and helping behavior decline by more than 80%, and.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Intercultural competence can serve as both a critical performance management dimension for employees and a meaningful competitive advantage for the organization. Braden Kelley provided Using Intuition to Drive Innovation Success. What we don’t always know is how to act on this understanding.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In the new strategy paradigm, the focus of strategy is on how to create competitive advantage. Designing broad involvement into the strategy development and execution process will rapidly increase the quality of your strategy, build broad ownership and commitment, reduce resistance, mitigate execution risks and accelerate results.

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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. EY is known for its focus on innovation. Our DE&I approach is multifaceted.

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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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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In the book Connection Culture , I describe 5 benefits to organizations: Employees who feel connected perform at the top of their game; Employees who feel connected give their best efforts; Employees who feel connected align their behavior with organizational goals; Employees who feel connected help improve the quality of decisions; and.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

John Hunter of Curious Cat submitted Technological Innovation and Management. John recaps: “Technological innovation brings great opportunity for improving results and our quality of life. Adaptability is no longer just a competitive advantage. But, there are things you can do to change how you feel.”

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Preparedness and implementing a risk management program are crucial to recovering and resisting the impacts of change, as well as maintaining a competitive advantage. Being approachable, transparent and innovative equips managers to deal with complex issues when they arise.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 15, 2012

I read " Find Your Next " subtitled "Using the Business Genome Approach to Find Your Company's Next Competitive Edge" by Andrea Kates. I am a big believer in competitive advantage. And my "know yourself" attitude makes me gravitate to things that help me determine my advantages. I loved the title. Find what resonates.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Labeling something as Best Practices is not a substitute for wisdom, discernment, discretion, subject matter expertise, intellect, creativity or any of the other qualities I value in an advisor. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. And what are your strategic goals?

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HR Digest

MAY 18, 2024

Competency Development Plan Example 2: Empowering Freelance Content Marketers For organizations that rely on a network of freelance content creators, a competency development plan can be instrumental in ensuring consistent quality and alignment with brand standards.

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