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Workplace Gossip | N2Growth Blog

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Gossip destroys trust, undermines credibility, and is one of the greatest adversaries of a healthy corporate culture. Nothing can claim more tainted professional reputations, destroyed friendships, and polluted corporate cultures than gossip. At its core, gossip is the highest form of disloyalty, and it is far from innocent or idle.

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Toxic Work Environments | N2Growth Blog

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Let me be as clear as I can - the phrase &# toxic work environment&# is code for bad leadership, becasue a toxic culture simply cannot co-exist in the presence of great leadership. It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence.

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Key Traits of Challenger Brands that Allow Them to Punch Above Their Weight

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Challenger brands can’t spend their way to success with big ad campaigns like the category leaders. An Underdog Nightmare for the Category Leaders. Underdogs don’t succeed by trying to do what the category leaders do, but better. It was a revolutionary challenger move that turned category convention on its ear.

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Efficient vs. Effective | N2Growth Blog

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Clearly this endeavor will take time, and may not yield immediate results, but the payoff organizationally, relationally, culturally, and in terms of future contribution can be huge. As you said in the blog, when we choose to invest in people we may not receive immediate results. Bottom line…check your motivations. Efficient v.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

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So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. If not, why not?

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Bonus or No Bonus? | N2Growth Blog

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They must be relevant, meaningful, in alignment with cultural values, and tied to the right set of metrics. My experience is that bonuses are absolutely effective given this caveat: they must be structured and implemented properly. It is not the bonus that is right or wrong, but the manner in which it is rolled-out.

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Leadership & Loyalty | N2Growth Blog

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If you’re a leader who has created a fear based culture I can guarantee you two things: 1.) Because of this instant culture where people expect their needs to be filled right away, a side effect is a focus on me, me, me. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth.

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