Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Intuitively, yes, entrepreneurship is a risky career path. One of the assessment tools we use a great deal is the Basadur Innovation Profile. This instrument measures one’s preferences for engaging the innovation process. Losing this is essentially losing one of the company’s most sacred competitive advantages.

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Management Due Diligence Open-book Competitive Advantage 288

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 22, 2012

Are 2 nd and 3 rd order effects accounted for in the equation: benefits of training and professional/career development, adjacent businesses in manufacturing or services, other opportunities? And what about innovation? I don’t know. I agree with many who believe we learn by doing.

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Outsourcing Insourcing Innovation Cost-Benefit Analysis 114

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

This shift not only opens up career opportunities for individuals without bachelor’s degrees, but also benefits women and Gen Z workers, thereby fostering a more diverse workforce. “Even amid today’s more uncertain economic conditions, businesses are realizing the competitive advantages of taking a skills-first approach to hiring.”

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Skills Competitive Advantage Long-term Diversity 111

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 15, 2023

A recent study from the University of East Anglia has unveiled how Generation Z views online “personal brands” as a critical tool for gaining a competitive advantage in job markets. Consequently, personal branding has emerged as a critical component in achieving career success.

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Brand Marketing Self-aware Competitive Advantage 88

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 3, 2018

Organizations populated with lonely people experience lower employee engagement, poorer quality of decisions, and a reduced rate of innovation. Show you value people as individuals by taking time to get to know their names, career aspirations and interests outside of work. To Reduce Loneliness and Isolation, Boost Connection.

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Competitive Advantage Ethics Stress Survey 199

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Anticipating and preparing for change is the essence of competitive advantage. The leaders who dominate in this new era will not only understand the changes affecting them, but they will seize them, master them, and use them to their advantage to achieve ever-higher performance. World-class competitors can do it.

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Competitive Advantage Class Execution Innovation 120

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared The 5 Most Important and Critical Skills for Jobs of the Future. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Career Success 2.0: Intercultural competence can serve as both a critical performance management dimension for employees and a meaningful competitive advantage for the organization.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Ethics 267

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

IT’S TIME TO INNOVATE STRATEGY. It is time to INNOVATE – It is time to drive out the complexity, elitism, rigidity, waste, and ruined careers from the current one-size-fits-all strategy paradigm. STRATEGY INNOVATION. At N2Growth, we have given this paradigm shift a name: we call it Advantage Strategy.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Innovation Competitive Advantage 150

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 30, 2020

For instance, a few years ago, research from VU University Amsterdam showed that we tend to have an unconscious bias towards viewing innovation and creativity as a young person’s game. Their support for innovation and strengthening customer connections. Their impact on group productivity via their increased knowledge sharing.

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Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage Innovation 141

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2012

I’ve met both over my long career as an executive, a consultant, and a board member. Here are the key differences between the species: Strategists are obsessed with bolstering their company’s competitive advantage. Why don’t giant innovators like Apple, Google or Facebook have Strategic Planning Departments?

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Strategic Planning Document Competitive Advantage Consultative 221

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 9, 2021

With labor force size, participation rate and productivity so closely tied to business and economic growth, the experienced workforce is a source of talent and competitive advantage that employers need to embrace now, ” the authors say. “To Their support for innovation and strengthening customer connections.

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Participative Competitive Advantage Long-term Cost 119

HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. The HR Digest: In your podcast “Break the Rules To Get the Job You Deserve,” you discuss unconventional career advice. It takes all of us!

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Ryan Handbook Letter Competitive Advantage 59

Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Four Solutions if You’re Feeling Overworked and Underappreciated at Work. John Hunter of Curious Cat submitted Technological Innovation and Management. John recaps: “Technological innovation brings great opportunity for improving results and our quality of life.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Crisis 251

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

An Overview on the Importance of Change : While there is little debate that the successful implementation of change can create an extreme competitive advantage, it is not well understood that the lack of doing so can send a company (or an individual’s career) into a death spiral.

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Leadership Competitive Advantage Due Diligence Short-term 347

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

For most of my career, I operated within intensely competitive arenas where fractions of market share points were worth millions of dollars. From my experience, these six characteristics encapsulate the competitive business culture. This is a tremendous competitive advantage for the smaller player.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because ofmarketplace leverage and economies of scale. But hold on for a moment. This is the mentality of the old economy.

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Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

Coaching Tip

APRIL 16, 2014

Cash flow, receivables, intellectual property, brands, careers everything flows from the idea. So, why don''t companies give more resources to strategic innovation? Elevate shows executives how to combine strategy and innovation to form a truly competitive advantage.". But only 3 out of 10 managers are strategic.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Skills Innovation 97

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

The strategy I’ve grown to love and count on over a 45-year career is do less, better. For companies without clout, competitive advantage can be realized by keeping things simple, by cutting out the complexity cancer that is crippling so many enterprises.

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Human Resources Restructuring Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy 183

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

As a team, we are focused on driving innovative programs and solutions that attract and grow our associates, and it’s fantastic when it inspires other companies to support their workforce in similar ways. Doug McMillon, our CEO, started his Walmart career unloading trucks and now leads the Fortune One retailer.

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Environment Diversity Leadership Supply Chain 98

HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

The pandemic gave us the opportunity to really test our agility and innovation, and I am proud to say we exceeded expectations, ” she says. “ It’s essential for high-tech companies to maintain their competitive advantage, but how we’ve handled that change has been one of the pillars of our success over the past four years.

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Leadership Agility Diversity Competitive Advantage 52

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Their support for innovation and strengthening customer connections. Develop and implement people and careers strategies that embrace the experienced workforce. Their impact on group productivity via their increased knowledge sharing. Their ability to foster collaboration, cohesion and resiliency within the group. A tough sell.

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Organization Competitive Advantage Metrics Retail 67

Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Additionally, leadership training helps executives to develop a deep understanding of their own leadership style, strengths, and weaknesses, giving them a competitive advantage to lead more effectively. This can help executives build a network of contacts and develop relationships that will be valuable throughout their careers.

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Training Execution Leadership Emotional Intelligence 52

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The need to successfully transition from career to career is likely to be just as important at an individual level as the ability to successfully pivot is for organizations attempting to ride the winds of change.

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Technology Competitive Advantage Training Report 97

LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. In essence, Zappos created a structure that is designed to keep employees in control of their careers.

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Decentralization Competitive Advantage Career Entrepreneur 107

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Don’t utilize your competitions practices, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to create an advantage that can be leveraged in the market. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. And what are your strategic goals? As an example, Look at Apple!

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

If you don’t have direct competition you’ll surely have indirect competition. What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. I Think Not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Organization Teamwork Learning-by-Doing System 158

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 29, 2019

The data highlighted clear divergence in how various layers of the business view upskilling, with senior executives placing more emphasis on technology than skills, whereas those on the frontline had understandable concern about their future career path. ” A competitive advantage. Productivity gap.

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Benchmarking Competitive Advantage Short-term Training 71

Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Marcella recaps, “Because of its role in enhancing collective capabilities like innovation, service quality, collaboration, and adaptability, compassion matters for competitive advantage. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted As a Leader, Be so Good They Can’t Ignore You.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Storytelling 256

LDRLB

JANUARY 12, 2011

Hsieh’s (2010) theory is that if you build ways for employees to take control over their career futures into organizational design, one lucky by-product is that these employees will be happier. In essence, Zappos created a structure that is designed to keep employees in control of their careers.

Decentralization 88

Decentralization Competitive Advantage Career Entrepreneur 88

LDRLB

OCTOBER 26, 2012

HR Practices – Innovation in specialized areas of HR (i.e., HR Professionals must be able to position their organization to anticipate and match external implications and bolster their organization’s competitive advantage. must develop innovative HR practices that drive the talent agenda of the organization.

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Ulrich Human Resources Competitive Advantage Survey 132

N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

If you’re passionate about something it means you care so much that it hurts…Refusing to surrender, and having the ability to make the tough decision or the needed sacrifice, will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise. I Think Not.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 302

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

This company earned that honor by re-staging a tired coffee brand with innovative packing technology and breakthrough advertising. This is the essence of sacrifice – a lesson that served me well for the rest of my career. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage.

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Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. Innovative high-technology corporations are currently paying employees large bonuses to recruit top talent.

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

LDRLB

OCTOBER 26, 2012

HR Practices – Innovation in specialized areas of HR (i.e., HR Professionals must be able to position their organization to anticipate and match external implications and bolster their organization’s competitive advantage. must develop innovative HR practices that drive the talent agenda of the organization.

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Ulrich Human Resources Competitive Advantage Survey 117

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Previous research from LSE also found that workers are paid around 20% more when working for the most innovative firms. In a world of machines and algorithms, competitive advantage will come from the exchange of human capital.”

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Globalization Competitive Advantage Human Capital Analysis 89

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2012

Is it the ability to recognize sources of sustainable competitive advantage? All royalties from the sales of OUT-EXECUTING THE COMPETITION are being donated to Room to Read, an international charitable organization dedicated to promoting children's literacy with a particular focus on undeveloped and disadvantaged countries.

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Talent Management Planning Succession Management 232