N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

It presents a fine line where, on the one hand, the CMO must unleash the power of creative minds to develop innovative strategies that can distinguish the brand. A business model ingrained with creativity encourages diversity in thought, providing multiple perspectives that contribute to a well-rounded decision-making process.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A successful CCO must harness these skills to drive commercial strategies, innovate processes, and navigate increasingly complex business environments. In today’s business environment, competitive advantage often rests on the effectiveness of the commercial strategy, and the individual at the helm of this function plays a critical role.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process. To make the best decision, make sure to include people who the decision affects in the process.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 22, 2014

government financial aid — provides an outstanding example of how to gain competitive advantage through organizational culture. In an earlier article I wrote about the power of having a vision phrase. A Connection Culture provides an enormous competitive advantage for organizations.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Talk to us about the power in being specific and how top leaders use this in their planning. They understand competition is always after market share and realize they need to constantly innovate and invest in their Company Advantage. For more information, see The Growth Advantage.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Either/or scenarios don’t create game-changers because all they do is restrict instead of liberate what information, ideas, and insights we’re able to employ in our decision-making processes. Indeed, this is the very art and science of leadership today – knowing when your employees need more of one or the other or both.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 6, 2023

This can include implementing tools and processes to facilitate virtual collaboration and creating a culture of openness and transparency. Providing the necessary tools and support for employees to work efficiently will be key.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2023

So, you’ve decided that the company will be powered entirely by renewable energy. It’s the process of obtaining the renewable energy you need for your business. This is the process of procuring renewable energy for use in a specific project or system. You’ve just invested in a major new business.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 10, 2021

We support this information with videos of experiments and explanations of research studies and relevant findings, all to help people process the knowledge we’re sharing. Through coaching, the surgeon came to embrace the power of words, emotion and connection. Katharine P. Stallard is a co-author of this article.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

I’m a big believer in the power of assessments. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. According to the Basadur Innovation Profile , people who prefer to use information to judge or evaluate (optimizers and implementers) in the innovation process are on the left side of the vertical axis.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you’re frustrated by your organization’s current strategic planning and execution processes or the outcomes from that work, you’re not alone. In the new strategy paradigm, the focus of strategy is on how to create competitive advantage. Your strategy process must deliver fast!

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CO2

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Executive coaching is a professional development process where an experienced coach works with executives, managers, and other high-potential individuals to enhance their leadership and management skills. This process involves careful consideration of what one wants to achieve and how to get there​ ​.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2020

This is where data is stored and managed, as well as processed, and it is all done using a network of servers that are hosted remotely. Cloud computing means that you won’t have to cover the costs of security, power, and insurance for this kind of thing, as it is all taken care of remotely. Strategic competitive advantage.

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HR Digest

MARCH 30, 2023

In recent years, the advancements in technology have revolutionized the recruitment process, with the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools. ChatGPT is one such technology that can be leveraged by recruiters to streamline recruitment processes , enhance candidate experience, and increase efficiency.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2019

An Ironclad brand is one that unleashes your competitive advantage. With these nine conditions as a backdrop, Pedersen presents her eight-step process for crafting a brand strategy— The Ironclad Method. In the first step of creating your brand strategy, you orient to your target customer and your competitive frame of reference.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

He’s also a sought-after speaker on subjects ranging from competitive advantage to strategy to leadership. In the best teams, these two groups come together to create something far more powerful. Without action nothing in the plan ultimately has any power to actively, deliberately influence the way things are in the future.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 28, 2015

The Power of Play. Play provides an opening to engage more fully in everything we do and ultimately be more productive," argues Christopher Byrne, author of "Funny Business: Harnessing the Power of Play to Give Your Company a Competitive Advantage.". Play is an immersive process that allows us to ask: "What if?"

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 18, 2020

Innovation is one subject that each and every one of us should study because its powerful force is available to us if we know how to tap it. Her company, LaunchStreet, works with teams to unlock the power of innovation and gain a competitive edge. Each person’s Everyday Innovator style is their greatest competitive advantage.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2012

The essential component of the strategy-making process is the leader. Second, even if you understand your industry’s competitive forces, you must find a way to deal with them that is up to the challenge. Third, whatever you do, don’t underestimate the power of those forces. It is not a problem to be solved and settled.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 26, 2017

Because few leaders do this well, it is wise for most to get outside assistance to design and implement the knowledge-flow session process as well as see it modeled. You May Also Enjoy: World’s Greatest Leaders Tap Power of Connection. 3 Ways Pixar Gains Competitive Advantage from Its Culture. INQUISITIVE ATTITUDE.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2022

Sponsor Content from Cognizant.

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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

JUNE 5, 2021

Far too many people lost a family member or friend due to COVID-19 and had to grieve or process the trauma alone. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage. NASA is intentional about helping astronauts in space maintain connection on multiple levels — as individuals and crew mates.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 26, 2012

Secrets of Power Problem Solving. Secrets of Power Problem Solving by Roger Dawson provides an insightful examination of the theories and practices associated with decision-making. In Secrets of Power Problem Solving , Roger presents methods for answering several key decision-making questions: Does the Problem Deserve a Solution?

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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. Senior leadership must champion any new initiative.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 28, 2020

It’s in these collective and sometimes organic interactions where a collision of ideas may produce new processes, products, and services. It’s powerful as institutions to create simple opportunities like that to see each other clearly for who they are.” We need others with whom we can talk and process how we are feeling.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2018

Most articles that try to tell you how to become a great CEO will talk about actions, plans and processes. But as a leadership executive coach with over three decades of experience, I’ve seen hundreds of leaders fail because all they know is process and procedures. Business school teaches you to focus on organizational strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We have all heard the saying that “knowledge is power&# we’ve all also heard the refinement of that saying which states that “the application of knowledge is power&#. Encourage and reward collaboration, the public sharing of knowledge, and education processes to create and scale knowledge. . Thoughts?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Leaders’ jobs aren’t to motivate and inspire and engage their employees, leaders’ jobs are to teach people better mental processes by which they can eliminate drama (emotional waste), upcycle that energy and that time, and help others step into the power they already have to create a better workplace.” Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

The Power of “Giving the Knife”. When her whole family visited us one weekend, she decided to make cookies—a process she had practiced during our summer weeks. Servant connotes power over; partner connotes power with. Empowerment is the process of releasing employee power. Tools for “Giving the Knife”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2013

Every salesperson wants to think of him or herself as powerful but, if asked, would have no idea where their power actually comes from. Most salespeople fail to understand their own power. As a salesperson, you have all the power in the world to make your own success happen. The power of a positive attitude.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It was widely believed that this was largely a case of organizations attempting to introduce new technologies to processes that were designed very much with the old ways of working in mind. It was only after business process reengineering was introduced to design organizations around computers that things began to shift.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2020

When we connect with others in conversation it engages the prefrontal cortex of the brain where we make rational decisions and disengages the amygdala where the brain processes threats. In cultures of control, those who have power or authority rule over the rest. Connection calms our nerves. Connection at Home.

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CEO Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2012

The title says what kaizen is - the process of continually creating excellence or continually getting just a bit better. The focus was on many tiny competitive advantages which in total created a profitable company. I have blogged many times about the power of success habits. People often ask me how EMJ was successful.

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CO2

MAY 24, 2013

Quality of the Planning Process. If they’re confused about roles, rules, or accountability, they’ll simply return to the routes and processes they’ve used in the past. Backsliding can start as early as the planning process, so no wonder my friend witnessed it so soon. Quality of the Planning Process.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Just because someone says something doesn’t mean it’s true…Moreover just because “Company A&# had success with a certain initiative doesn’t mean that “Company B&# can plug-and-play the same process and expect the same outcome. Okay, my question is this: What constitutes best practices in this situation?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Processes shared give leaders and their entire team a model they can use to understand and appreciate everyone’s strengths and differences.” Technology is proving to be a powerful enabler to bringing people together from around the globe. Adaptability is no longer just a competitive advantage.

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