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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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. Again a core that keeps customers loyal & provides a competitive advantage. By definition 'best practice' is something codified by someone else. I always appreciate your insights William. Manufacturing, oh yes!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 334

N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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Leadership Gordon Blog Brand 284

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. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. John has been a friend, client, and vendor for the past 22 years.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

Just so we’re clear, there are 3 predominant types of change to deal with : Business or career change – which could also affect revenue. Think: health and finances. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Family change – both positive and negative. We have a new child. I’m getting a divorce.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We remained steadfastly committed to having all our staff from custodians, plumbers, and bus drivers to engineers, architects, and finance directors, trained in the culture we wanted to create and the culture we expected each of our people to honor. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 63

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

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. Serve to Lead discusses this at some length. I suspect we're just on the surface of the implications of the world that's rising in this regard.

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Blog Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 379

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

After graduating college, she put a lot of effort into her career as a businesswoman with several successful enterprises, but when motherhood came along, she decided it was time to pull back and take up her other passion, writing. Now she writes about business and finance and finds her work-life balance far more enjoyable.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 58

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

An example was a discussion session of tired-looking European finance ministers, defensive and elusive about the speed of acting on the Euro crisis. I heard it in a session led by Professor Michael Porter and Dean Nitin Nohria of the Harvard Business School who were sharing a research project on declining American Competitiveness.

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Competitive Advantage Porter Goleman Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match. One: "Anyone who works in finance will sense, at least at first, the pressure to know more than he does." So when you contact someone, your chances of getting a response are higher.

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Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 9

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. This may be the first time in my career that I've been accused of taking a standard management approach.:)

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

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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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.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. It is a key competitive advantage. She has a diverse career background and serves on the board of several organizations, including The Shyft Group and the University of North Dakota Alumni Association & Foundation. The HR Digest: C.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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Diversity Education Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 111

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In many cases, it is more closely linked to getting the green light than even financing and business fundamentals. These champions are “the lions,” because they are motivated by a desire to advance their company’s competitive position and aggressively dominate an emerging trend or market. Advancement.

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Motivation CIO Competitive Advantage Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for. In companies where process excellence is a competitive advantage, hes the kind of candidate CEO that more boards should be looking for.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Why should we make this investment? What are the potential risks vs. possible rewards and what is the downside of not making the investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

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!”

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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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Books Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage Storytelling 8

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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Blog Leadership Competitive Advantage Brand 419

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

Policy makers can and should do more to align the incentives of companies and workers, for example by providing tax incentives for profit-sharing schemes , by providing health benefits, by hiring new employees, or by linking workplace practices to government procurement and financing programs.

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