N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It was a pain by then but during the rest of my career that mentality has stuck with me and I found that its always easier comming up with the simple solution in the first place rather than dealing with complex workflows until you have had enough and go back to simplify it.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

While not all great business leaders have served in the military, those of you who have worked to develop the leadership traits mentioned above understand the advantages you derive from a having a military leadership state of mind.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development. If your mentoring and training programs don’t focus on the development of action oriented leaders then you are simply breeding obselesence, and utlimately…failure. When an organization stops learning they begin dying.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

How important is face-to-face networking to sales, relationships, career, and success? I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. John says, “It's about the developing core networking places and participating, getting involved, and establishing a leadership position.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. It transformed my business and career. Is that the only way to think of it?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Developing a culture of caring within your organization to engage your employees is vital to the strategy to drive success to your business. But what they don’t realize is that they are damaging the business by failing to develop staff. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

They all speak of the quality of their talent as a key success metric…in fact, many of them will emphatically state that talent is their single biggest competitive advantage. Rarely do I speak with an executive who hasn’t drunk the talent messaging Kool-Aid. Don’t hype…stop complaining…fix the problem.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. via n2growth.com [.]

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Based on this research, I have developed a three-phase model that shows how companies can move beyond rhetoric and take ownership of sustainability. Psychological ownership refers to feelings of possessiveness and connection that we develop toward an appealing object such as a person, company, or even an idea.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. We have taken an intentional approach to develop a vision and strategy that takes all our stakeholders’ perspectives into account – one that our customers, carriers and employees can stand behind. It is a key competitive advantage. The HR Digest: C.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

As gerajohm commented, "The best executives I have met have had a great understanding of how to use technology to gain competitive advantage and improve operations. They worked together to identify the technologies that could improve the company''s competitive advantage versus technologies that were needed to support the business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although champions are not the ultimate decision makers, and they rarely have substantial power within their organization, they have four things that make them irreplaceable in developing and closing the deal: credibility, connections, company intelligence, and motivation. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done. What spurred your interest and passion for the topic?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Why should we make this investment?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Throughout my professional career, I have navigated multiple industry segments from professional services to consumer goods and served a decade+ stint in the insurance sector. It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. Visit the “trenches!” Do we value our customers? Absolutely!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

No matter your interests (sports, movies, politics), your industry (finance, marketing, technology, manufacturing), or the type of organization you work for (big company, nonprofit, small start-up) — your world is awash with data. The End of Competitive Advantage: How to Keep Your Strategy Moving as Fast as Your Business.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism. Perfectionists tend to be very busy, but rarely are they productive.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Examples of this phenomenon have emerged already: The world’s largest hedge fund is developing a capability for an algorithm to make hiring and firing decisions. For one thing, they will have a competitive advantage in the political environment we have entered.

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