N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

I cannot even begin to count the number of times I’ve had a CEO tell me that certain immutable business principles just don’t apply to his/her business because, “this business is different.&# Moving on…Believe it or not, CEO is not always synonymous with all knowing business guru.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 17, 2012

This is why they spend so much on research and development. Competitive intangibles are the source from which competitive advantage flows or goes, and human capital is the primary source of every competitive intangible. CEOs come and go. Wall Street demands quarterly results.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 6, 2022

Carey Pellock: Since I joined Neustar in 2012, the company has undergone significant changes – most notably a transition from public to private company status and the arrival of a new CEO. Our values informed our guiding principles, developed by our CEO and implemented by our Executive Committee, for operating through COVID-19.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

With the ever-changing dynamics of the workforce, the stewardship of organizational culture is just as important as strategy, talent, product development, or customer service. Jason Richmond is President & CEO of Ideal Outcomes, Inc. There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage. As the perceived value of key knowledge workers increases, the competition to hire these workers will intensify. Provide opportunities for development and involvement. . Life is good.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 24, 2015

The Leadership Development Practitioner as a Change Agent. When leadership development programs are aligned with results-based initiatives or what's important to the organization, it becomes more likely that Leadership Development initiatives are easily measured and supported. About the Authors. Who is the real decision maker?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

There’s no single CEO-like entity and no hierarchy for single accountability. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Their new book is Revolutionizing Business Operations: How to Build Dynamic Processes for Enduring Competitive Advantage (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023).

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. The process that started in the 1950’s evolved through various strategic analyses including SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats), Michael Porter’s competitive strategy model, core competencies, strategic intent and business transformation. “If Every CEO wants buy-in. Main menu Home.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

For all these reasons, Prime has been described by CEO Jeff Bezos as one of the company’s three strategic pillars. Instead of cutting human resource jobs (which seems counterproductive for a company that employs 2.3 Instead of cutting human resource jobs (which seems counterproductive for a company that employs 2.3

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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

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than a decade, leading human resource strategists have hit on a recurring theme: You want your star players working in the roles that matter most to the business. USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2013

Over the last 30 years I have served a large range of organizations as either a director or a trustee with the specific role of helping them exploit IT for competitive advantage. A new component of the IT function must be developed to support this category of work: the Distributed Innovation Group (DIG).

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

The answer should not be “the CEO” or “the Chairman” or the equivalent. Achieving sustainable competitive advantage through superior strategic alignment does not happen by accident – it happens by design, or not at all, and it requires a special breed of leadership, which I call enterprise leadership.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 9, 2021

In their new book, TALENT MAKERS , Greenhouse co-founders Daniel Chait and Jon Stross present their step-by-step guide for implementing a structured hiring process that attracts great talent and turns hiring into a competitive advantage. I spoke with them about the challenges around hiring, and how they can be surmounted. Talent won.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

CEOs talk focus all the time and nod to its importance, but few take the necessary measures to cut through complexity and clear a path to clarity and coherence. Thanks to Coke’s global reach, brand power, bottling network, and single-minded focus, I’m betting on Coca-Cola sustaining this competitive advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

And that same transparency has radically shortened the shelf life of any new competitive advantage. “We’ll That means churning through data to find insights that others haven’t seen and then developing the organizational capability to act on them faster and better to drive above-market growth.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This makes sense, because the alternative is for behavioral insights to be tried out by individuals or specific departments, and their knowledge and skill are likely to vary: Someone in marketing might use their behavioral knowledge to develop more-effective campaigns, while at the same time someone in HR uses theirs to focus on employee engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. There are lots of things that can be done in large organizations but simply aren’t because nobody has the time or resources.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Our human resources department takes care of that. Examples: This company reflects the character of its CEO. The wise CEO is one who listens to others, surrounds himself-herself with smart people and fosters a spirit of teamwork.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

I’ll never forget our CEO, Matt Simoncini, getting up in front of dozens of managers and saying, in essence, “I’ve violated several of these model behaviors myself in the past. After six months of development, we assess each manager again, and this time the assessments have teeth. Accountability.

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