N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Quality leadership or a lack thereof is easy to spot if you know what to look for. I was absolutely stunned to read the results of a survey published in the January/February 2014 edition of Chief Executive in which respondents (sitting CEOs) ranked the top 10 skills needed for effective leadership. Strategic thinking — 55%.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This person was offended by the brand name of a whimsical beer marketed by the Earls Restaurants chain. Earls said they would re-name the product by April 24, 2013. Simply pulling “Albino” and going with “Rhino” would probably suffice, but that’s an easy-out for a lazy, complacent marketer. Is there better way? No problem.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Return on Character : The Real Reason Leaders and Their Companies Win by Fred Kiel In Return on Character , Fred Kiel has put numbers to the notion that good leadership aimed at promoting the common good, not just individual, winner-take-all acquisition can be good business. H3 Leadership : Stay Hungry. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 24, 2013

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. They credit their success with more affordable and effective marketing tools via the Internet, and growing support for local businesses.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Home / Leadership / The Problem with Good Ideas. February 11, 2013. At a time when creativity and innovation are at a premium, good ideas are actually more threatening than ever. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue.

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CO2

MAY 29, 2012

January 10, 2013 – February 14, 2013. February 23, 2013 – March 9, 2013. March 30, 2013 – June 30, 2013. Choose for one of the many titles provided by McGraw Hill (18 books being given away): Just Ask Leadership – Why Great Managers Always Ask The Right Questions. Ask people to vote on your entry.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where. He is the top ranked leadership blogger by Huffington Post.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study. Given the number of baby boomers expected to retire between now and 2030 (the last group of baby boomers reach of the age of 65 in 2030, and, of course, some may choose to work past age 65) organizations need to prepare others to take over leadership roles.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Remember how much of a difference high definition television made when it first came to market? Once focus is clear, we have freedom to think creatively about how to achieve the desired result. In Inspiration , Leadership , Organizational Effectiveness , Personal Effectiveness , Questions. Leadership Profile: Dale Carnegie.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea. We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. Likewise, leadership is a choice. You have to decide if leadership is really something you're ready to shoulder.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 6, 2013

Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard J.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Look at More by Andy Stefanovich details a framework for unleashing an organization’s creativity to develop new products, build brands and audiences, and grow market share. Mindset : intellectual foundation of creativity, the baseline capacity each of us has for getting inspired, staying excited, and thinking differently.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. How to Establish Thought Leadership? Otherwise all we have is cutthroat competition.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

(Your marketing people, your ad agency, yada, yada) Anyone preparing “boring” marketing tools in this day and age should be forced to take that crap out on a sales call and see how CUSTOMERS perceive it or care ten cents about it. Here are some GOLDEN opportunities to be creatively sincere: At the fast food window.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2013

It’s not market conditions; it’s you’re mental conditions. The power of creativity. Creativity is a science, and you can learn it. And once you begin to see things a little bit differently than others, you’ll become more creative. Creativity makes it evident. Preparation determines outcome.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

In the case of Division-D, we took a closer look at 3 Interactive’s market and saw the need to change the core of our company from a local media representation company to a high impact ad media buying firm. Bobby Campbell is a successful entrepreneur with a deep understanding of how to monetize emerging digital markets.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Salespeople are missing huge opportunities for engagement and opportunities to gain response from customers by not being imaginative or creative in their communications. Show me a slide deck prepared by marketing, and I’ll show you a boring message. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2013

I’m certain that in a Facebook research-marketing lab someplace in Silicone Valley they’re talking about Instaface or Facegram. ’ 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.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they're victims of it.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2013

OUTREACH: Be personal and creative. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. Being a corporate entrepreneur has a profound effect on both your reputation for innovation and your prospects for leadership opportunities. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2013

It shows your laziness, lack of creativity, and overall lack of professionalism. increase their interactive marketing ROI. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! EVERY TIME. Maybe it’s YOU!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This is a process that can be learned and applied by everyone, not just the “creative” types. You know the US market well, as do your people, because it is your only market, even though you are pretty sure your product could be applied internationally. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2013

It’s for people that have no other way of marketing. ” If the commercial is cool, creative, maybe a little bit edgy, and has a little music in the background they will listen to that commercial and call other people in to hear it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Sherri, Cold calling sucks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Mature digital organizations are characterized by a flexible, less hierarchical culture where employees enjoy a real autonomy and the possibility to express their creativity. In 2013 Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Roland Berger applied its methodology to the French labor market and estimated that 42% of French jobs could be at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. Loose cultures tend to be open and creative, but are more disorganized. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. ” A year later, such optimism seems hard to find at Whole Foods.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. Each state poses a different leadership challenge. The fall can come quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. I spoke with Patty McCord, the former chief talent officer of Netflix from 1998 to 2013. Superconsumers can exist in your company across all functions.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 22, 2013

He wrote: "Creativity always comes as a surprise to us; therefore we can never count on it and we dare not believe in it until it has happened. In other words, we would not consciously engage upon tasks whose success clearly requires that creativity be forthcoming. Source: "The Gift of Doubt: Albert O. Is it really there?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? How come every time I write marketing copy, it sounds boring when I look at it the next day? It’s also a hit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2014

To that end, Diebold recruited a new CEO in 2013, Andy W. Sandy Ogg, an operating partner in Blackstone’s Private Equity Group, had previously served as a senior vice president for leadership and learning at Motorola and chief human resource officer at Unilever. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. An HBR Insight Center.

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Mark Sanborn

DECEMBER 5, 2021

His wife, Erika, joined the team in 2013, and today Envisioning Green is a husband-and-wife-owned, boutique-style landscape construction and maintenance company being featured in a business book. . This can require a certain amount of creativity because the Johnses recognize that clarity for one person may not be the same for another.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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