A List of Referrable Keynote Speakers and Topics to Consider for Your Next Conference
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Heather Younger – helps organizations create safe spaces and a culture of listening.
Benchmarking How To Innovation Marketing 
New Research Explores How To Improve Fund Manager Selection
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 12, 2022
For instance, the author advocates benchmarking new managers against the performance of those managers that were terminated. Indeed, hiring managers with poor performances in the past may even be profitable due to the fluctuating nature of the markets. “ You may be doing it just at the wrong time.”
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Why Best Practices – Aren’t
N2Growth Blog
JULY 28, 2019
Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. One of the most difficult areas for executives to wrap their mind around is how to unlearn legacy based thinking.
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The Art of Conducting a Comprehensive Training Needs Analysis
HR Digest
MAY 15, 2024
Whether you’re a seasoned HR professional or a business leader seeking to optimize your training programs, this article will provide you with the insights and strategies necessary to elevate your organization’s learning and development initiatives as you learn how to conduct a training need analysis assessment correctly.
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Why Best Practices – Aren’t
N2Growth Blog
JULY 28, 2019
Don’t benchmark against others – benchmark against a unique and better version of you. Don’t compete against how others do things, compete against your own thinking. One of the most difficult areas for executives to wrap their mind around is how to unlearn legacy based thinking.
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Leadership Self Examination | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2010
If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. Moreover they know how to leverage information and resources to achieve their objectives. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Want to find out?
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The Difference Between Great Leaders And Posers
N2Growth Blog
OCTOBER 27, 2019
Let me be clear, I’m not advocating for leaders to be opportunists (we have way too many of those), but to be opportunistic in how they view market, talent, culture, change, strategy, etc. Be careful however not to fall into the trap of “me too” innovation – don’t copy; create. As the saying goes “timing is everything.”
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Structure Sales Compensation Plans That Can Fire Up Your Employees
HR Digest
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Having a clear idea of the plan is necessary to decide how to build the rest of the system around it. Examples of business objectives can include market expansion, revenue growth, cost reductions or optimization, product development, etc.
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Smart Marketing for Small Businesses
Strategy Driven
APRIL 17, 2013
How to grow revenues? How to profitably service existing customers? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. .”
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Leadership & Change
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 10, 2011
Agility, innovation, disruption, fluidity, decisiveness, commitment, and above all else a bias toward action will lead to the creation of change. Much has been written about the importance of change, but there is very little information in circulation about how to actually create it. . The change being adopted must be measurable.
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397 Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 23, 2010
This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? Efficiency and productivity are not found working at or even near capacity. " exercise is a good one.
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419 Contingency Planning | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 5, 2010
The three most critical items to focus on when conducting your planning are: Insure that personal accountability is present on any major benchmark, milestone or deliverable. In most cases your wins won’t put you out of business, but your losses most certainly can.
Access To Mental Health Services Affects Our Career Income
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
These include not knowing how to help and concerns that the problems will harm the atmosphere in the workplace. They have divided their guidance into two forms: A benchmarking tool to help organizations assess and design their mental health systems and support. Frozen out.
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New Report Highlights The Growth In Older Workers Across The US
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 18, 2019
As with most changes, these changes are unlikely to unfold equally across society, and a new study from Provision Living explores which cities in the United States appear to be supporting older people’s continued participation in the labor market.
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Ideas Don't Equal Innovation | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 13, 2011
As a result of our conversation, I decided to dust-off an old post, give it a few updates, and pass along my thoughts, which can be best summarized as “ Ideas Don’t Equal Innovation. “ It is my hope to help dispel the myth that ideas are inherently good things.
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Vision vs. Mission | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2010
Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? And Mike, thanks, for providing the forum and moderating. I agree that the discussions are quite valuable.
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395 Top Leadership Blog Posts
Michael Lee Stallard
NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Here’s why and how.” ” Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You’re Not the Boss of Me. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management” S. I think so. Mike Henry Sr. ”
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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 6, 2011
Here's why and how.". Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You're Not the Boss of Me. And a century and a half is an eyeblink compared with the eternity it would take to achieve this benchmark in senior management". Utpal Vaishnav presents Know how to walk first, running comes later.
Deep Motivations, Not Competencies, Drive Leadership Performance
The Empowered Buisness
JULY 14, 2015
Orientation toward innovation and creativity. A successful CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) is likely to have such MAPs as – strong motivation toward options (ie., Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. Relationship to norms/rules. And much more.
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7 CEO Success Tips – How To Be A Better Leader
N2Growth Blog
APRIL 28, 2014
When similar journeys are decided on by leaders in the driver’s seat of their organizations, the challenge to accomplish such a task means that CEOs must be able to navigate their way around the VUCA minefields (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) and instruct their senior teams how to do the same. shifting results.
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393 Leadership & Political Correctness | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 5, 2010
Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. By its very nature politically correct thinking is most often disingenuous and intellectually dishonest.
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375 Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 23, 2013
His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. They're right.
Make These Changes to Help Digital Marketing Fulfill Its Potential
Harvard Business Review
MAY 31, 2013
The promise of digital marketing continues to grow as big data gets bigger and is turbo charged with mobile and social. In theory, digital marketing should be more precise and better than traditional analog marketing. So why is digital marketing still so ineffective? But Super Consumers care about benefits and innovation.
The Big Picture of Business – Quality is Important for Business: Real Quality vs. Arbitrary Metrics
Strategy Driven
FEBRUARY 6, 2015
Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.
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50 New Research: You're Doing Customer Experience Innovation Wrong
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 27, 2013
"Innovation" has become a buzzword in the customer experience field. In a recent Forrester survey of 100 customer experience professionals, nearly half of respondents said that their executive team''s strategy for customer experience is market differentiation. Sixty-four percent have allocated time to innovation activities.
Professional Services Maturity Model – Request for participation.
Rajesh Setty
NOVEMBER 23, 2008
Here you’ll find more than 1500 articles and mini-sagas on entrepreneurship, leadership, creativity and simply how to distinguish yourself. Both the maturity concepts and the benchmark have met with incredible success. Over 500 firms are now using the Service Maturity Model to benchmark their organizations and work toward optimization.
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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage
Strategy Driven
MARCH 18, 2011
The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy. This book helps you identify your firm’s distinctive blend of strategic direction and differentiated capabilities that give you the ‘right to win’ in your chosen markets. PL and CM: Turbulent markets demand focus and discipline.
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Digital Transformation Is Racing Ahead and No Industry Is Immune - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DXC TECHNOLOGY
Harvard Business Review
JULY 19, 2017
A 2014 study from Constellation Research quantified the accelerating rate of change in the enterprise by examining a simple benchmark — the entry and exit of U.S. How to Become a Digital Enterprise. 6 Digital Trends Are Poised to Transform How We Work. How can companies thrive on these changes?
Japan, Libya, and Why Leaders Should be Paranoid
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2011
He meant the kind of concern about threats that propels a search for excellence — how to keep getting better and better so that competitors can't touch you. Feeling vulnerable as a small city-state, Singapore's leaders set high standards, benchmark against the best in the world, seek innovation, and invest in ideas of the future.
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People Are the Puck
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
The Great One's well-known words are often repeated in corporate corridors during discussions about understanding market trends. That is typically where the conversation comes to an abrupt end, because few can elaborate on how to anticipate these trends with any reliability and predictability.
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The Not-So-Secret Secrets to Making It Big: Five Surprisingly Doable Steps That Will Propel You to the Top
Strategy Driven
OCTOBER 26, 2011
The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? The Benevolent Dictator gives you no-nonsense how-to advice and examples that have worked.
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50 A Fast Track to 10,000 Hours of Practice
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 19, 2011
But more recent studies show the upside of the 10,000-hour benchmark for collaborative knowledge work — the type of expertise required to create, or lead, or grow a company. How is an experimental approach different than business as usual? Is there a big idea in the innovation pipeline that never seems to go anywhere?
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15 Old Buildings Are U.S. Cities’ Biggest Sustainability Challenge
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 21, 2016
This is especially true in the commercial buildings market, specifically large commercial buildings, where well over 75 percent of existing buildings will still be in use in fifteen years’ time. To gain market traction, retrofits need to be: Relevant (appropriate to their building). Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.
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The Radical Beauty of Three Simple Management Practices
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 29, 2012
The reality is that many of them are unable to take such basic steps as setting achievable benchmarks, removing underperformers, collecting useful data, or offering coherent bonus schemes to motivate employees. At our web site , you can quickly benchmark your organization by country and industry on a management-scoring grid.
The September 2012 Leadership Development Carnival NFL Kick-off Edition
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work completes a hail mary pass with Using the Benchmarks® Assessment for Leadership Development. "As Here are 4 challenges and how to manage them.". Maybe this year will be different.
The Gap Between What Leaders Want and What Recruiters Deliver
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
How to build a strong team. They generate insights contrasting workforce needs with the market supply of talent. A buoyant job market creates competition for top talent; in slower times, you’ll have your pick of the bunch. They innovate to meet the demands of the business. You and Your Team. Hiring and Firing.
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8 Diagnose Your Customer Culture
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 17, 2014
New evidence shows how a strong customer culture drives future business performance and supports market strategies. They can be measured and benchmarked for any organization: 1. Will the company lead the market with new services before customers recognize their own changing needs? Customer Insight:? Customer Foresight:?
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8 Your Silence Is Hurting Your Company
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
Since then, I've worked at or with companies like HP, Apple, Autodesk, Adobe, Symantec, Nokia, and with startups funded by Greylock, Benchmark, and Accel. Or the latest re-org focuses on optimizing the delivery of X, when you know the market is really looking for Y. And I've learned one simple thing.
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15 Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product
Harvard Business Review
MAY 19, 2016
As business strategists, we see endless amounts of writing about how to achieve differentiation. Back in the 1980s, a company could set itself apart through scale, being the largest company in a category provided leverage over costs, back office processes, distribution, and marketing effectiveness.
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Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 2, 2016
In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.
What the Best Transformational Leaders Do
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2017
In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. That knowledge helped them understand how to make change happen inside an organization.
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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 28, 2015
Even today, with more than $200B in market capitalization largely derived from that same data, investors struggle to value the company’s information. We need to mark our information assets to market or depreciate them as they become obsolete. Where we land is firmly in the face of a management paradox.
What Are The Six Disciplines?
Six Disciplines
JULY 14, 2011
The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning. In this discipline, we help you to systematically review and renew your mission, values, market segments, competitive position, strategic position, vision, and agreeing what to stop doing.
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103 How To Really Measure a Company's Innovation Prowess
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 21, 2013
Who is the world's most innovative company? Last year , number crunchers at Forbes found that Salesforce.com is the company with the highest "Innovation Premium" baked into its stock price. Perhaps a company's ability to innovate doesn't last long. There's no doubt: measuring "innovation" is a fuzzy business.
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