N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. For Your Success For businesses on the cutting edge: companies proactive in seeking a competitive advantage; progressive firms open to adopt new innovations. Inc.com Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

In 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the CEO of Google, shared a concern with the world : “Every two days, we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization until 2003. Your Team’s Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem. The ability to focus is a competitive advantage in the world today.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

In the early 1990s Blockbuster commissioned a study on the future of video-on-demand technologies and how they would impact traditional video rentals. The report concluded that expanded cable offerings and broadband internet would begin to impact video rentals around 2000, and would grow rapidly thereafter.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

Managing your reputation and its attendant risks has become far more complex. Netbook makers such as Asus projected strong demand growth in their category for 2010, because they assumed more-or-less continuous technological trajectory from portable computers to netbooks as web appliances.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

’” Purpose might have informed the management of two failed brands – Blockbuster and Radio Shack — differently. The first Blockbuster store opened in 1985 and quickly became a popular provider of video games and movies to be used on all the new VCRs people were buying at the time.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for. He wasnt a process manager. He did not, from my point of view, have the skills to run the big company that we had produced. The company was too big for that."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain. To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2012

Consumer packaged goods manufacturers are monitoring social media to get real-time information on their customers' perceptions and share it with brand managers. The self-publishing tools Forbes provided to contributors made it easy to write something and publish it, to put images into it, to link to other media, or to embed videos.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

They somehow manage to engage with their audience consistently by constantly putting out articles, infographics, or anything of value, not just in content marketing but also in sales. Nemorin They make great content stories using the medium of the moment, video. 3) That your intern can manage your content strategy.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be very busy, but rarely are they productive.

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