Career, Development and IT Strategy

Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 14, 2012

It’s just another well-intentioned sound bite that will destroy your company and your career if you choose to follow it. Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy.

Advice

Advice Strategy Innovation Resources

Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Steve about some of his insights and tips to outsize your strategy, profits, and potential. Over the course of my career, I have seen the business world transform and certain powerhouses, think Amazon, Apple, and Uber, redefine the business model to capture incredible value. Steve Coughran.

Strategy

Strategy SWOT Company Customer Loyalty

Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2015

Starting his career as a trainee at 7-11, he worked his way quickly through the ranks, gaining a reputation for operational excellence. Today, we must learn how to shape networks around a shared purpose. Consider the case of Blockbuster , whose CEO John Antioco had proven himself as both a manager and a leader.

IT Strategy

IT Strategy Strategy Operations Resistance

The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Your task is now to acquire the skills you need in this new territory before your career or your enterprise falters as a result of your personal limitations. What lies beyond the edge is the opposite, an unfamiliar landscape barely coming into focus.

CEO

CEO Skills Crisis Marketing

The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. Offer leadership development opportunities to employees with disabilities. Provide role models.

Compliance

Compliance Chief Operating Officer Innovation Survey

You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

It’s how they develop and grow (just as children do, first imitating their parents, then their peers). And that’s precisely what gets us in trouble as we hit career transitions that call for new and different ways of leading. Leadership development Leadership transitions' Finally you dream in the language.”

Learning-by-Doing

Learning-by-Doing Finance Definition Politics

At Multinationals, Country CEOs Should Be Both Local and Global

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The LG India team outdid both domestic and foreign rivals in tailoring its strategies and operations to the Indian market. LG India hasn't ignored rural India; it led the way in developing inexpensive appliances and built the largest sales, distribution, and service network in the country. That's only part of the story, though.

Globalization

Globalization CEO Long-term Operations

The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Their goal is to attract, engage, develop and retain employees – moving talent into, through and out of the organization. HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career.

Strategy

Strategy Span of Control Finance How To

How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. For guidance in selecting and applying HR metrics, see this article.).

Company

Company Human Resources Human Capital Engineering

Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. Crucially, the operating model also must define ways of working and behaviors that actually bring your company’s strategy to life.

Strategy

Strategy Company Banking Apparel

A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In the past, economic development has prioritized big businesses. But these economic development strategies focused on big businesses, sometimes known as “elephant hunting,” may overstate the importance of large firms. Shift the focus to include small companies. Ecosystems for innovation and entrepreneurship support.

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation

Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The United States spends 40% more per patient than other developed countries but suffers the worse overall health outcomes. Instead of being reactive and treating conditions already present, the objective should be to proactively identify children at risk before they develop a health condition and keep them on the path to wellness.

Health Care

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism

Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.” That’s when the brand shifted its strategy, once again, and developed the long-standing “Better Beans. Better Coffee” positioning.

Brand

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management

Leadership Digital

Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

Outsizing Strategies to Grow Your Business Potential

Trending Sources

Your Company’s Networks Might Matter More than Its Strategy

The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

The Case for Improving Work for People with Disabilities Goes Way Beyond Compliance

You’re Never Too Experienced to Fake It Till You Learn It

At Multinationals, Country CEOs Should Be Both Local and Global

The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

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