N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The amount of capital required to run a business is based upon how the business is operated. Therefore if leadership operates the business without consideration for capital constraints, or irrespective of capital formation issues, then the blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of leadership.

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Brand Entrepreneur Marketing Execution 322

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Liz Weber of Weber Business Services provided Your Silence Speaks Volumes: Speak and Lead Proactively. Productivity. Communication.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 267

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” In business, your competitor is the enemy. For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. Live a culture of innovation.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 11, 2014

APQC’s (American Productivity & Quality Center) ElissaTucker recently interviewed me for an article published on their site on March 4 called “The "Secrets" of Leadership Development. Yes, innovation and execution are important to—but it all starts with top-level commitment. CEOs say a lot of things are a top priority.

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Leadership Survey Leadership Development CEO 230

HR Digest

MAY 6, 2021

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. We empower our team members to take risks, test, and learn in ways that not only support the business, but further their professional growth.

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Brand Franchising Career Resources 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marketing, sales teams and the DSD force itself operate with tremendous coordination to ensure that they are consistently aligned in their business objectives. This cross-functional effort gives Frito-Lay a clear, distinct advantage over its competitors in getting the right product to the right place at the right time.

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Operations Competitive Advantage Supply Chain Retail 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything,” wrote Paul Krugman more than 20 years ago. Productivity in most developed economies has been anemic. During much of this time, it has been shareholders, not workers, who have reaped the benefits of higher productivity.

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Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Companies in all varieties of B2B markets have moved beyond selling products and services to offering complete "solutions" to their customers. Alstom keeps trains ready to run each morning for railroad operators rather than just selling the rolling stock to them. Observe the customer directly. Technology can help here.

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B2B Business Objectives Focus Group Marketing 14

HR Digest

JUNE 24, 2023

It provides valuable insights into employee behavior, performance, productivity, and interactions, enabling organizations to make data-backed decisions that drive business success. The term Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) emerged as organizations recognized the critical role HR plays in driving business success.

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Metrics Trends Compliance Analysis 98

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. Pick an Apt Objective. Finally, pervasiveness is the ideal end state for a business-improvement approach. As the U.S.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

We first introduced Neve Compacto, a low-energy paper product, in Italy, to help retailers save shelf space and moms save room in their storage closet. We support legitimate social and environmental issues that are globally relevant but also have a clear fit with our brands and business strategies.

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. The CMOs will need to be much more attuned to the business objectives and strategies of the company in general and the CEO in particular, while the CEO must become more immersed in the customer perspective.

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CEO Marketing Hotels Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. And the merchandising vice president had difficulty understanding why “product” was one of the categories we were discussing.

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Brand Reis Objective Merchandising 8

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2016

Chris doesn’t realize it but she’s just placed her fledgling business at a long-term disadvantage. Unfortunately, her title is a strategic, operational, financial, and cultural derailing eventuality to the intended track of her purpose, vision and values. Today, the “CEO System” dominates the business psyche, manner, and method.

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CEO Leadership Chief Executive Officer Human Resources 166

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most customers are interested in your content first (how much you know about their pain points) before purchasing your products or services. Siege Media stands out from the rest by innovating the way they create their content. You (Inhouse) Sometimes the best content comes from those who know your product or service best, you.

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Marketing Content Audience Brand 105