N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In the 2013 PricewaterhouseCoopers Annual Corporate Directors Survey it was reported that the average age of board directors is 68 and mandatory retirement has risen to 72-75. It definitely takes a unique individual to assume a director role in the earlier stages of their career and the opportunity will not be appropriate for most.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 7, 2013

In the midst of getting back from Bangkok, heading to Las Vegas and officially launching her new book, Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future , Dorie Clark took the time to guest post! As I mentioned in my review, this is a Must Read book for anyone at any stage in their career.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

Its diversified galaxy of brands for man and beast are iconic -- from chocolate favorites like M&M's and Snickers to Wrigley's Juicy Fruit and Lifesavers to pet-care products like Pedigree and Whiskas, as well as Uncle Ben's Converted Rice. Today, Mars has 11 billion-dollar brands and not everything at Mars is about chocolate.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2013

I want to talk about one element of your personal business habits: Your personal outreach, your daily outreach, that builds attraction, personal brand, authority, known expertise, recognition, position in your industry, Google rank, social media presence, top of mind awareness, and reputation. Big mistake. Sounds like a LOT of work.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

This is a guest post by Mark Babbitt, who I just spent 3 days with at #BIF10 , who also founded YouTern , one of THE best sites for career info. Self-assess your current online brand. The original version of this post was published on January 25, 2013 on YouTern.com by Mark Babbitt. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. Read, enjoy and apply!!!!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When we talk about the notion of lifetime value , we are talking about just that: Have we surprised and delighted a customer in such a way that they ascribe emotion to the brand we represent? Careers can be short or long. Repeating success is about the journey. Leading is about tone and substance. Projects are always short.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2013

January 7, 2013. He grew up during the Great Depression and following a stint in the military, began his career in sales. Dedicated to helping others get everything they want out of life, Ziglar’s speaking career took off soon after that. Today is a brand new day, and it’s yours.” by Nathan Magnuson.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2021

Workable’s ‘ Pay as you Go ’ tier allows hiring teams to enable online support, mobile applications, a careers page, interview scheduling and more. Company branding. Founded 2013. It offers a 15-day trial which allows hiring teams plenty of time to decide if the software works for the organization. Founded 2011.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

America ranks number six in women’s economic participation and opportunity on the World Economic Forum’s 2013 Gender Gap Index of 136 countries. “Yet some companies prove “the new normal” is women in top leadership,” Catalyst, December 10, 2013 ( [link] ). Women Are Today’s Brand Champions.

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Rajesh Setty

MARCH 16, 2013

So here’s your new 4-word mktg strategy for 2013: Guess Less, Ask More… and always start with “How can I serve you?”. When a brand adopts the marketing philosophy that it is all about relationships, they automatically begin paying more attention to the consumer needs and preferences to learn who the consumers really are.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Easing into the New Year, one big hope we have for 2013 is that women continue to bridge the gender gap in terms of pay equality and access to leadership positions. But career choice does not fully explain The Pay Paradox. Unfortunately, it also leads many of us wonder if the struggle for career parity is truly worth it.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog offers Seven Steps to Success in Your New Management Job. Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand offers an engaging post on How To Guarantee Your Self-Improvement. Jennifer V.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand tells us it’s the little spontaneous gestures that mean so much in What is the Customer Experience. Joel Garfinkle of Career Advancement Blog discusses three best practices in recruiting and retaining talent in What’s It Worth to You?

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2013

A Career Builder survey of more than 6,000 hiring managers, worldwide, reveals some eye-opening global stats about just how much a bad hire can wreak company havoc. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. So, for example, one bad hire with an annual income of $50,000 could equal a possible $15,000 company loss.

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Quality Pre-Employment Screening Talent Management Reference 68

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Hoosiers Submitted by Joel Garfinkle , from Career Advancement Blog : “This article I wrote Feeling Equal to Someone Senior Than You mentions the movie Hoosiers. Coach Carter Submitted by Mary Ila Ward , Horizon Point Consulting : “My favorite movie for Leadership (and career) Development is Coach Carter. Work the plan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anna Farmery from The Engaging Brand presents What is strategy? Mary Ila Ward from The Point: Sound Advice for Career and Leadership Development presents Are your employees on the border of ''boredom and anxiety''? You''ve heard of "speed dating"?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2013

’ For your photos, your travels, your creativity, your career, your achievements, your cute kids, your passions, and your family. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What do you do EVERY DAY to build attraction and brand? You don’t have to be a writer, just a smartphone user. All rights reserved.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Herminia Ibarra – Thinkers 50 #8 Management Thinker 2015-17, #1 Leadership Thinker 2013-15, Professor at London Business School, former professor Harvard, best-selling author of Working Identity: Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career. Thought Leaders – Cohort 2.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2014

In fact, 92% believe they have a “brand problem” when it comes to their efforts; this problem is often expressed as the fact that “not everyone can be an employer like Facebook.” That said, the top 10 in this list are not surprising at all: They are well-known brands that frequently appear in the “best places to work” lists.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

43% female, 57% male) from 2013-2017, and spoke with more than 20 female engineers at professional conferences in the U.S. Our data provides insight into engineers’ professional identity and experiences of work – their approaches to work, career path decisions, work stressors, and intentions to leave the field. and Canada.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2014

A systematic analysis of mid-2013 data on the world’s largest firms by revenue, the Fortune Global 500, shows that at that time only three non-Indian firms were led by Indian CEOs: Arcelor Mittal (Lakshmi Mittal), Deutsche Bank (Anshu Jain), and PepsiCo (Indra Nooyi).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Virtually everything the company makes, and is thinking about making, is highly influenced by this huge team of footwear, product, fashion, store, graphic, interaction, and brand designers. Of course, design also has a huge impact on the representation of Nike’s brand across the globe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2013

But here’s what is most surprising to many about the marijuana industry: It’s filled with straight-laced people who built careers – and started successful companies – in other fields. billion in 2013 – up about 15% from the year before, according to our 2013 Marijuana Business Factbook. And I still do now.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Despite their families’ insistence that their idea was a little off-the-wall, Susan Walvius and Michelle Marciniak quit their successful coaching careers to found Sheex, a company that manufactures bedsheets made from the same synthetic poly-spandex fabric used in athletic apparel by brands such as Under Armour.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

He amassed 126 wins in his 29-year NFL head-coaching career. On this one particular evening in 2013, I had the opportunity to hear him speak to a few hundred fitness trainers/pros at a Perform Better conference in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1999, he led the Rams to a Super Bowl championship.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

First the bad news: most of those employers aren’t doing much to provide their new hires with the training and support they need to get their careers off to a strong start. More than half (52 percent) of respondents who graduated in 2012 and 2013 and managed to find jobs tell us they did not receive any formal training in those positions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Perhaps you originally left because you “felt dead-ended in your career and now have an opportunity to come back at a higher level.” Summon “the mental discipline to think, ‘If I were really brand-new here, what would I be doing?’” But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The Verge reported that Uber sent out brand ambassadors with burner phones and credit cards. The story was picked up by CNN Money , which reported that Lyft’s internal data suggesting 5,560 canceled rides between October 2013 and August 2014. .” That’s what taxi and limousine services thought too, just a short time ago.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

While there are some factors that make social innovation more likely than not — such as intrapreneurs who will champion them — Davis and White find that competing for talent, strong brands, and leadership transitions all correlate with stronger social initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2013

Earlier this month the Rolling Stones kicked off a brief 2013 tour celebrating their 50th anniversary. I also have a professional interest because concert tickets are a great way to understand pricing — whether it''s the role of scalpers, the use of dynamic pricing, or concerns about whether high prices hurt a musician''s brand.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2015

For example, even in 2013, Scottish fashion brand Lyle & Scott put out a call for a new CEO on Twitter. They linked to a microsite so people could learn about the brand’s history, what it takes to be a leader, and how to apply. WANTED: #CEO for our iconic british brand. NextGreatLeader.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves. So companies understand a major shift is needed. level is a pretty dated concept.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

After all, it’s more than a resume; “it’s a marketing document,” says John Lees, a UK-based career strategist and author of Knockout CV. ’” Here’s a sample mid-career resume that does this well (source: John Lees, Knockout CV ). See below for exactly what to include.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. The volunteer team has since produced a second app, El Recetario, for more advanced students.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

“Eight out of 10 participants in the Corporate Service Corps program say it significantly increases the likelihood of them completing their career at IBM,” Stanley Litow, VP of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs, told us. The volunteer team has since produced a second app, El Recetario, for more advanced students.

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Intellectual Capital Library Project Competitive Advantage 12