N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 3, 2023

Here are some recent examples we’ve seen: The start-up promises AI-driven supply chain optimization, but they can’t get buyers to understand how the AI-optimization differs from what their ERP systems already do. While the strategic imagination can run wild, the greatest danger is to not run it at all.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 5, 2018

However, recent events give us great examples to prove the benefits of servant-leadership in business – especially in times of crisis. The culture of these organizations and how they responded, protected their market value. This is also true of our servant-led examples, Starbucks and Southwest Airlines.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2023

The labor market has been pretty loose since the 2008 financial crisis, with this underpinning a considerable rise in credentialism that has seen employers demanding four-year degrees for even entry-level jobs. With the labor market tightening, it’s clear that such alternative routes are urgently required.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

For example, wild herds of horses share the leadership role of the herd, and different horses step into the leadership role depending on the situation the herd finds themselves in. It enables the leadership to be shared which is a common theme that we see in nature.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was the sidearm of choice for Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Coty, “Bat” Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. Sam Colt was a marketing genius. Colt pistols were advertised with the revolver being used on wild animal hunts or against bandits. Wild West performers sported Colt pistols.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Take, for example, Jerry Rubin, the one-time wild-eyed Youth International Party revolution-jockey and anti-establishment provocateur. Whatever; the new brand didn’t stick: by the 90’s he was promoting snake-oil life-extension strategies and multi-level marketing.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” You don’t have to be a corporate CEO to benefit from Ford’s example.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 27, 2016

One of the best examples of this is the world-famous Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle. They started to throw fish around the market, perform improv acts with customers, and be comedic in an effort to enjoy what they do and prevent the job from being drudgery again.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Emily Cooper is an ideal example of a growth-mindset millennial. Emily arrives at the Parisian office newly acquired by her American marketing company, to be the liaison between the two offices, and yet, she doesn’t speak the language of the country she’s now working, and doesn’t seem to fancy the idea that she should try.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2010

However, as helpful as reading about leadership from a conceptual angle can be, the most effective way to learn is by example. Here are a few well-known leaders who are perfect examples of the saying, “Great leaders are made, not born.&#. Steve Jobs is a great (perhaps the best) example of understanding your markets.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2020

For example, if you are a creative florist with a passion for wild bouquets, you might choose a brightly colored card with a floral motif. We meant it! Your business card design should reflect the style of your business. Your values should be well communicated by just looking at the card.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When it came time to drive cows to market, the hot tattoo was a convenient way to identify a particular cow. Branding in the Wild West was more than a tool for identification; it was also a means to determine ownership. The King Ranch example of going beyond image holds an important message for all brand-maker leaders.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For example, some businesses may focus their efforts on price leadership, some on full service, or some on convenience. It also delivers something of excellence to the business owner—a predictable return on investment, established business procedures, employee training, staffing plans, marketing strategies and interested customers.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 29, 2013

For example, some businesses may focus their efforts on price leadership, some on full service, or some on convenience. It also delivers something of excellence to the business owner—a predictable return on investment, established business procedures, employee training, staffing plans, marketing strategies and interested customers.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For example, California updated its employment laws regarding the classification of independent contractors. And employee conflict, always a drag on productivity, is even more damaging in the tight post-Covid labor market. Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. Here’s an example. Others do not. What’s the differentiator? The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. You’re avoiding some tough calls.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. For example, if you know the salesperson next to you is saving to buy his first home two years from now, you are his biggest cheerleader when he makes a sale. Seven Principles of Marketing. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Consider the fictitious example of ABC Corp, an organization that historically has built predictable products with existing technology. At ABC Corp, the key behaviors identified are for marketing to solicit ideas from new sources, and to use the new criteria for vetting ideas. ABC Corp has a vision to become a more innovative company.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Glean These 19 Ideas & Tips to Skyrocket Your Success Note: This post was written in collaboration with Victoria Greene , an ecommerce brand marketing consultant, freelance writer, and small business owner with a pulse on the future of online selling. Also, see if the market looks like it's trending in the right direction for your idea.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Let me offer just a few examples to help connect the dots: Recording artists that release too many CDs over too short of a time period hurt their own appeal.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2012

And everywhere you go in this gathering of the smartest people in the most exciting business category on the planet, there are marketing mistakes being made. The engineering of electronics has never been healthier, but the quality of the marketing lags far behind. For example, you don't make a video-distribution technology.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works!

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

For example, California updated its employment laws regarding the classification of independent contractors. Employee conflict, which affects your productivity and culture, is even more damaging in the tight post-Covid labor market. Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Her point-of-contact was Linda Sullivan, Director of Marketing for a brand new hotel, Blanco Luxury Suites. Linda showed us several examples of excellence around the town. Not long ago I accompanied my wife, Kathleen , on a visit to Blanco, Texas, while she researched an article about this unique town in the Hill Country.

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Steve Farber

AUGUST 12, 2016

They were not—as we say in business—my “target market”; yet, LEAP has given each of them a good dose of inspiration and a road map to change their lives for the better. It wasn’t the kind of question that they teach in facilitator school—such as, for example, “Who would like to volunteer to jump out of a tree?”—

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), Example: Zig #1: Drive to profitability – have product bring in $20K in revenue. Example: We will have sold 15K units of product. Define when you have completed your zig zag.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Invite all of your customers to join you by sending examples of your value messages. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. Same with Apple.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

We should take a look at the most dynamic parts of today's global economy — the so-called emerging markets — while thinking about how to shore up American competitiveness. When the specialized services needed to facilitate the matching of buyers and sellers are underdeveloped, the market is emerging rather than emerged.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In addition, given their quest for organization leanness, digital startups seek investors who have the expertise to help outsource their noncore business functions, such as production, distribution, marketing, and payroll processing. By the time, those opportunities reach public markets, if at all, they are fully priced.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Every day, multi-million dollar consumer electronics products suffer the consequences of poor, lazy, ineffective, uninspired, unprepared, overly-technical, follow-the-status-quo marketing. The products at retail are generally good, but the marketing ranges from atrocious to bad. The difference is marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2014

Whole Foods has done a great job of cultivating the organic and all-natural market. Even Wal-Mart has entered the game with Wild Oats products and, not surprisingly, a pledge to be 25% cheaper than national brands. Rival organic and all-natural chains such as Fairway and Sprout are thriving.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The virus, once released into the wild oceans of social media, preys on its victims. In fact, quite the opposite is the case: unlike viruses, people actively choose to engage with marketing messages and to share them (or not) with friends. Marketing Social media' Failing to develop relationships with your multipliers.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

For example, how a teacher is going to be evaluated may influence the timing and methods of assessing student learning as well as content coverage in courses. And, the implications are not limited to one direction. Consider the events that occurred in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) during the last decade.

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