Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers. Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of leadership, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. As a leader, you can harness these tools to gain a deeper understanding of your organization’s performance, market trends, and customer behavior. Enhancing Risk Management: AI can assess risks more accurately and in real-time.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

Diversifying revenue streams necessitates a multifaceted approach, encompassing the expansion of product portfolios, exploration of untapped markets, or the introduction of supplementary services, strategically diminishing reliance on any singular income source.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

They bring: Local Market Insight : Their deep understanding of Minneapolis’ business environment is invaluable for entrepreneurs, providing insights into regional trends and opportunities unique to the area. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

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CO2

JANUARY 4, 2024

They bring: Local Market Insight : Their deep understanding of Minneapolis’ business environment is invaluable for entrepreneurs, providing insights into regional trends and opportunities unique to the area. Risk Management : Entrepreneurs learn to evaluate risks effectively, balancing bold moves with prudent decision-making.

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Entrepreneur Emotional Intelligence Long-term Diversity 78

The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 24, 2024

Stay Interviews The place to start is a stay interview most often led by the employee’s manager or the manager’s manager. It could be with someone in Talent Development or Recruiting. The group develops a strategic business plan to tackle or solve the challenge and formally presents it to relevant stakeholders.

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Attrition Mentor Training Situational Leadership 52

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 15, 2016

All of my strategy, culture and organizational design work over the years comes down to one thing – enabling my clients to differentiate themselves from their competitors so to dominate the markets that they serve. My firm has developed a framework for doing this. Think strategic investment, not cost containment.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Planning, tactics, organizational development. Value-added leadership is a healthy way of life that puts collaborations first. When all succeed, then profitability is much higher and more sustained than under the Hard Nose management style. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment. Business Development.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Leadership. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. How is it possible for three months of crisis management ineptitude to occur in an organization the size of BP with a product as environmentally toxic as oil?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team. Rather in most instances, I believe HR should be a compliance, training and risk management function.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. This process helps to define and develop value systems to create success. Develop a mission statement. Develop the vision statement. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Develop attitudes, behaviors and skills as the motivator to create bigger successes. Body of Knowledge – Develop profound insights and life-long perspectives into the teachings of success and failure (learning three times more from failures than success). 7 Benefits of Success, Stemming from Failure. About the Author.

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Succession Due Diligence Budgeting Risk Management 78

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

But what about the more strategic risk areas, such as those related to emerging market entry or acquisition growth strategies? What about the risks that could affect the financial performance (or even the very survival) of the enterprise—risks like brand degradation or product relevance?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Be careful not to pro-bono yourself to death. About the Author.

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Strategy Budgeting Risk Management Strategic Planning 88

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Actions are always required.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 24, 2017

From time to time through the years, I’ve written on the difference between leadership and management. I am revisiting the subject now because it’s not enough to understand that leadership and management are two different things. Of course we do have defined tasks as leaders, and managers have a specific role to play too.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2012

If current employees are hesitant to talk, HR should also be conducting exit interviews , particularly in high-risk occupations like healthcare, to identify any areas that may put the company, its customers and consumers at risk. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

The ‘brand’ is a marketing term. Customer experience” comes right out of marketing surveys, which rarely ask for real feedback or share the findings with company decision makers. It is a misnomer to think that a quick fix pawned off as a ‘solution’ will take care of a problem once and for all. About the Author.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. The Big Picture of Business – Community Relations and Cause Related Marketing Are Business Strategies, Not Sales Promotions: Determining the Right Kind of Tie-In Causes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Making sound decisions is a skill set that needs to be developed like any other. By developing a qualitative and quantitative filtering mechanism for your decisioning process you can make better decisions in a shorter period of time.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

In recent years, investors have learned that defining the market value of a firm cannot just be based on finances. But recently, these financial outcomes have been found to predict only about 50% of a firm’s market value. Wise, long term investors recognize that leadership affects firm performance.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The keystone of effective governance lies within the trapeze act of balancing stakeholder interests, harmonizing corporate objectives, maintaining legal and ethical standards, and ensuring a robust risk management system. The strength of governance can be significantly amplified with the employment of a dedicated leadership team.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Natural disaster stages: Warning, hit, search and rescue, recovery, rebounding, analysis, flood prevention planning, learning from crisis, community development. Cause-related marketing is a good thing. Some companies use “philanthropy” as a marketing scam. Commit to a program of volunteering. Most companies give to communities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. Corporate Responsibility relates to every stage in the evolution of a business, leadership development, mentoring and creative ways of doing business. Change is 90% beneficial. It reassures other stakeholders as to the company’s intent.

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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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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2013

The relationship combines StrategyDriven’s leading experience in asset lifecycle management and regulatory services with NTE Solutions’ capabilities in all aspects of power development, from engineering to commercialization. Risk management and compliance. Project development and management.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. 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.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Behave as a gracious winner. In short, never stop!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

They steered many people into lives committed to community stewardship and leadership. Through all that, I became enamored with community service, developing trust relationships with stakeholders. Others cut into programs and services in order to fund marketing. I performed a management study for my state comptroller’s office.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

While sales objectives are most common, trade shows may also be behavior, product, distribution or marketing oriented. Perform informal market research. Delineate other categories of visitors, and develop a strategy for maximizing your time with key prospects. Introduce new products. Target a select group of visitors.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization. These are my concluding pieces of leadership advice. The mentor opens doors for the mentee.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. Futurism: developing thinking and reasoning skills, rather than dwelling just upon techniques and processes. Futurism: the foresight to develop hindsight that creates insight into the future.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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. Do you have a detailed, written analysis of your market area? When “the fun ends,” the hard work begins. Do detailed action plans support each major strategy?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

As a reaction to industrial reforms and the strength of unions, a Hard Nosed style of leadership was prominent from 1910-1939, management’s attempt to take stronger hands, recapture some of the Captain of Industry style and build solidity into an economy plagued by the Depression. About the Author.

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