N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Are you a master of strategy? If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Don’t tell me, show me…Don’t talk the talk, but walk the walk. Taking action always begings with one simple act – making a decision.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. These factors form a formidable foundation for effective organizational governance when paired together.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. Culture needs to vary depending on your business strategy.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Rather, it is using judgment at the right time and in the right place to seize the competitive edge. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. To be fair, the ‘act early’ ethic prevails in corporate cultures that worship entrepreneurial thinking. It is experience that improves a person’s ability to take action.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2013

And maybe a bigger question is: how are you taking advantage of the Santa Claus elements Google presents to help you build your personal brand and reputation. Actually, I wonder if your Christmas wish list contains a wish for you to have a better personal brand next year? You have to be ethical all the time.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Let me give you the good news, and the sales news… There are several strategies you can employ to get around the bidding process, or legally and ethically change the bidding process. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. What do you do EVERY DAY to build attraction and brand?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

I believe that this is due to the discrepancy in the two dominant approaches in rationalizing why corporations should be ethical. The company is there to make money, but it also tries to appear to meet the public expectation of acting ethically. It seemed to be in polar opposite position to the brand identity of The Body Shop.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Although you will make some sales that way, in order to maximize sales and profits and push your business forwards and grow, you need a fully-fledged marketing and sales strategy that considers every aspect of the sale, from the packaging to the individual customer. Focus on Your Brand. Track the Competition.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

After all, those that find themselves embroiled in bribery scandals, for example, face a host of consequences, including business disruption, steep financial and legal costs, and harm to their brand and reputation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2014

The customer is now more educated in the car business than the car salesperson is because the customer has probably shopped ten different brands and the car salesman pretty much only knows his own. You gotta be ethical, you gotta be honest, or you gotta find another job. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

To thwart the impact of low-cost foreign competition and to meet the accelerating demands of customers and shareholders, they embark on doing more, and adding more. Companies that appreciate the power of sacrifice also appreciate that ‘do less better’ is a winning strategy at both the corporate and functional level.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

Executing this strategy required seamless integration of IBM's product capabilities with its geographic reach. This meant abandoning IBM's existing organization, in which product silos and geographic entities operated independently and frequently were more competitive than collaborative. Palmisano once said, "The CEO is not the brand!

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LDRLB

MARCH 10, 2014

DAVID: We talked about the reasons that new leaders fail, but let’s look at day one and brand new into leadership, what are some of the first things we should be nailing down from day one, should be focusing on? That’s the strategy. GEORGE: Completely. I completely agree. So, park that. That’s the posture.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership says, “A lot of leaders make the mistake of using the same conflict management strategy for all kinds of conflict. Anna Farmery of The Engaging Brand tells us it’s the little spontaneous gestures that mean so much in What is the Customer Experience. in Enable Employees with Liberating Rules.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context , says “Every leader should have proactive steps for learning and improving ethics - including their moral compass , their interpersonal behavior, their global thinking, their community impact and their environmental sustainability.”.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Addictive organizations show frozen feelings and ethical deterioration. Rather than embrace the kinds of Big Picture strategies advocated in this book, the addictive system seeks artificial fixes to organizational problems, such as bonuses, benefits, slogans and promotions of like-minded executives. Who are the customers?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The work ethic has shifted to people who can understand and appreciate hard work, a sensibility that is lost today on many of America’s emerging workforce. Ronn Torossian is CEO of 5WPR and author of For Immediate Release : Shape Minds, Build Brands, and Deliver Results with Game-Changing Public Relations. About the Author.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

Whether it’s trying to just offer better food, or democratize great design, the cause behind the brand is clear. These types of leaders have not just an incredible passion and work ethic for what they do, but a cultural ethic in that how they do what they do inspires others. Define common language, values, and standards.

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