N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2024

An athletic director is a strategic leader responsible for managing budgets, developing policies and procedures, and promoting a positive and inclusive athletic culture. Navigating these complex dynamics requires both a strategic mindset and a commitment to upholding the values and integrity of the organization.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Develop a Data-Driven Mindset : In an AI-driven world, data is the new goldmine. Long-term Vision with Artificial Intelligence: Use AI not just for immediate problem-solving but also for long-term strategic planning. From forecasting market trends to risk assessment, AI can offer valuable insights.

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Succession How To Long-term Strategic Planning 121

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I recently wrote two posts criticizing strategic planning. While Self wasn’t directly critiquing strategic planning (SP), that “tragic erosion of deep engagement&# is an articulate description of many strategy plans as well. John Bell wrote a great post called “Why Mission Statements Suck”.

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LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2011

I recently wrote two posts criticizing strategic planning. While Self wasn’t directly critiquing strategic planning (SP), that “tragic erosion of deep engagement” is an articulate description of many strategy plans as well. John Bell wrote a great post called “Why Mission Statements Suck”.

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Strategic Planning Planning Mission Statement Gordon 90

LDRLB

JULY 28, 2011

I am delighted that so many readers have asked for details of the content that goes into the 1-Page Strategic Plan. Start with deep strategic thought and the right conviction. The strategic plan is not the annual budget. Leaders with a ‘do-more-of-the-same but better’ attitude are destined for mediocrity.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In order to succeed and thrive in modern society, all private and public sector entities must live by codes of ethics. Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business.

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Ethics Mission Statement Strategic Planning Benchmarking 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Business development. Budgets get more attention than the umbrellas under which they rightfully belong: Strategic Planning and Visioning. By itself, Budgeting does not constitute full-scope planning and business strategy. Does your strategic plan adequately describe what you do? Running the business.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 74

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

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. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 81

The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2022

I facilitated a strategic planning session for senior executives. One of the core strategic imperatives they felt vital to their success in the coming year was a “People Strategy.” But the executives were in favor of HR developing a talent management and engagement strategy. ” OK, Boomers.

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Policies Morale Report Survey 59

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

In this fast paced business environment, people are just too busy to seek you out so you need to strategically plan how to create your visibility, how best to communicate your value proposition and to whom. Without this GPS or strategic plan, you are quite simply less likely to reach your career destination.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Many a Strategic Plan was written by piecing together song fragments, nostalgic remembrances and movie scenarios, then were aptly converted into contemporary corporate nomenclature. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Business development.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Corporate executives must develop themselves for the next level and to be useful to their companies and communities in the future. Business development. Mid-Level Sellers (consumer services, multi-level marketing, retailers, vendors). 7 Plateaus of Work Ethic. Deep Commitments to Body of Work, Professionalism, Ethics.

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Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. It opens your services to additional market niches. It is short sighted to ignore changes in society. It makes good business sense.

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Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 94

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Business development. 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. By seeing the daily changes resulting from the planning, companies are poised to rise above the current daily crises.

Energy 60

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 60

Strategy Driven

JUNE 3, 2011

Business development. Executives are not fully prepared to handle challenges of the moment, much less to begin developing Big Picture thinking. Develop a true corporate culture. Inspires the development of organizational Vision. Mentorship and leadership development. Sales or marketing support.

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Strategic Planning Benchmarking Long-term Consultative 69

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Those vital employees in the business world might include the IT guy, the receptionist, the mailroom manager, the ethics adviser and the secretary to the Board of Directors. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Great executives know the value of crediting support figures for the business success.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 63

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Business development has occurred primarily by accident or through market demand. Because of economic realities and the increased numbers of firms providing comparable services, the notion of business development is now a necessity, rather than a luxury. Business development. Strategic Plan. by Hank Moore.

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Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. Business Development. You develop-champion the tools to change. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Culture and Mission. Philosophy. The Big Picture.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

There needs to be a system for decision-making and development of leaders and managers as well as the reinforcement of values, directions and performance expectations. Leaders in the organization serve as role models through their ethical behavior and personal involvement in planning, communicating and developing others.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. We make a good product… that should be enough. Why must we spend time on things other than our core business? About the Author.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 80

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2018

Strategy : planning, tactics, organizational development. Philosophy : purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. What they were doing five years ago has no relationship to what they’re now marketing. Firms which package and market services. 7 Levels of Authority Figure. Self Appointed.

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Advice Strategy Company Bureaucracy 57

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

Business development. I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.).

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Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 68

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Futurism: the foresight to develop hindsight that creates insight into the future.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. Many people do without the substantive insights into business because they have not really developed critical thinking skills. Develop, update and maintain a career growth document. Truth and ethics must be woven into how you conduct business.

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Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. Develop and share own philosophies. About the Author.

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Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

Business development. There are three key ingredients in developing deep leadership roots. The evolution, education, enrichment, professional development, training and life experiences that one amasses. Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. Develop resources, skills and talents. Body of Knowledge.

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Long-term Benchmarking Quality Process 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not). Running the business.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 61

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The companies that develop the deepest connections will generate more value for their customers and employees (and shareholders). Product innovation, process mastery and other traditional forms of competitive differentiation can easily and quickly be identified, replicated and brought to market today. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. How much further should we extend ethics?

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Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 60

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2011

The successful professional person takes the time and appropriates the resources to develop a Body of Work, rather than just hold jobs. Business development. Taking concepts (quality management, ethics, outside-the-box thinking) out of the esoteric and into daily operation. People, like organizations, develop, grow and thrive.

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Learning-by-Doing Career Strategic Planning Mentor 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

At TechProse, he drives business development for the consulting firm that specializes in knowledge/content management, training, and documentation for major U.S. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. She is also a fellow of the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank based in St.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Professional education is an important ingredient in corporate development. It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Training is unfairly blamed and scapegoated for pieces of the organizational mosaic that Strategic Planning and cohesive corporate Vision should have addressed early-on. Personal Development.

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Education Company Succession Mentor 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. Running the business. Body of Knowledge.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Business development. Unsuccessful marketing. Repairing ethically wrong actions. Chasing the wrong leads, prospects or markets. Training and development of people. The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business.

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Planning Consultative Learning-by-Doing Cost 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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