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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

A leader’s view on competition will not only reveal a lot about their beliefs on current and future market trends, but also on innovation, branding, talent management, supply chain issues, constituency management, capital markets, and customer facing. I worry much more about the unknown than the known… .

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Loyalty and reward programs provide this type of context for B2C companies, while strategic account and relationship management programs do the same for B2B companies. The building blocks are Sephora’s Loyalty program, mobile app, BeautyTalk community, and ColorIQ service.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In a recent interview, Benko discussed AT&T’s efforts and offered advice for HR leaders and individual managers on how today’s workforce can avoid obsolescence. How talent management is changing. What’s the attitudinal shift that needs to happen for individual employees and managers to ensure their relevance?

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