RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 2, 2017

A company, feeling it was time for a shake-up, hires a new CEO. On a tour of the facilities, the CEO notices a guy leaning on a wall. The CEO walks up the guy and asks, “And how much money do you make a week? Here’s a free downloadable interview checklist that you might find helpful: Get the checklist… 2.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

No new idea comes formed ready for delivery to the market. Nobody has ever shown they have infallible, let alone reliable, instincts for anticipating how customers and markets receive new ideas. The reason new ideas are not a slam dunk success story is because you still have to package, market and sell them.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

This is so much the case that some CEOs will avoid restructuring initiatives at all costs. My question is this…since when have fear and avoidance become prerequisites for success as a CEO? What do great CEOs do when the business model, the strategic plan, and the revenue hurdles don’t seem to be in alignment?

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LDRLB

MAY 8, 2013

The most innovative companies pull the right levers to create a culture that leads to exploration, experimentation, and the innovations that positively surprise the market, create competitive differentiation, and drive growth. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, recently said, “There’s no formula. So how do you do it?

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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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leaderCommunicator

MAY 30, 2014

4 Things Successful Businesses Do to Get Consistent Results By Lindsay Lavine, Fast Company “ Ideas are easy, execution is hard,” says Jim Sullivan, CEO of Sullivision, a Wisconsin-based marketing, sales, and leadership consulting company that counts …”. Download our new eBook The "Secret Weapon" Every CEO Needs today!'

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 24, 2014

You have dashboards that show sales per week (or month or quarter), market share…”. CEO Presence Isn’t Style. Download Cutting To Win and receive 6 steps for getting employees on your side during cost cuts!' Chris Edmonds, Thin Difference Blog “ How do you gauge your team’s effectiveness? David Grossman. __.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

P.S. Here’s a Thanksgiving gift for you to download and enjoy. The ability to change course. And the gratitude to realize that Friday is also a holiday — spend some time that day to start taking action. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box, reflects on the cloud storage company’s entry into the enterprise market. But by staying disciplined with the product and deeply understanding market trends, they’ve made the strategic shift from B2C to B2B work. Download this podcast.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never posed questions pertaining to corporate culture. These leaders are responsible for perpetuating “the way” or making changes depending on the market environment or the needs of the enterprise. That’s a big mistake. . I wasn’t surprised in the least. Others do not.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision. But hey…you hear that from me on a fairly consistent basis.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. Do you ever find yourself sitting back and marveling at those leaders who always seem to have the right thing to say?

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A good CEO costs no more than a bad one – sometimes far less when you consider costly mistakes and lucrative severance packages. Make the right move, shatter market paradigms, and competitors will follow, no matter their size. Thousands of small to medium sized businesses are successfully doing this. There are far more than you think.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Chief Executive Steve Ballmer plans to take Microsoft in a new direction by shifting the company from a focus purely on software, that is downloaded onto personal computers or on corporate computing networks, into something of a hybrid of rivals Apple Inc. and Google Inc. Doing What You Do Best Away from the Office.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., Business models must be designed with great care at the outset, but they must also be fluid in order to react to changing market conditions and avoid becoming stagnant. are also not business models.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 5, 2015

In Theodore Levitt’s The Marketing Imagination , the renowned marketing professor said there was no such thing as a commodity, only people who think like commodities. Differentiation is still the name of the marketing game. Several big brand marketers have fallen on their own swords in their effort to drive growth.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything. pastortom2022 Great post Mike.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. We strongly recommend that you download the latest firmware containing the hotfixes as instructed in the security advisory. has grown stealthier and more sinister.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Over the years I’ve met more than a few CEOs who paid little or no attention to their board of directors, only to find themselves wondering what went wrong as they were being ushered out the door prior to the expiration of their employment agreement. As a CEO, your board can be one of your greatest allies.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Rankings, Lists and Recognitions The Power 150 – Top Marketing Blogs This list ranks the top 150 marketing blogs based on an algorithmic approach using Google page rank, Technorati rankings, Bloglines ranking and editorial quality. The N2growth Blog is pleased to announce its inclusion in the list.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff, Alan Mulally, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 18, 2013

Consider this: According to the Journal of Marketing: 9% of customers are lured away by competition. Founder and CEO Tony Hsieh is becoming well known for his Delivering Happiness concepts which are all about customer service. Download "Can You Hear Me Now? 68% are turned away by an employee’s indifferent attitude.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

As much as you may wish it wasn’t so, as a CEO you’re really only as good as your last decision. As a person that works with CEOs and entrepreneurs on a daily basis I can tell you with great certainty that all leaders are not created equal when it comes to the competency of their decisioning skills.

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leaderCommunicator

APRIL 8, 2013

All leaders start down the same path to a strategy based on market research and customer preference data, but smart leaders quickly engage layers of leadership and employees throughout strategy conceptualization. The same principle applies to the strategy-development process in corporations. Food for thought that means business.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I find that I ‘read’ more than I did in college by using downloadable books. Why downloadable? Finally, if you aren’t acquainted with the app Pandora , check it out — it changed my listening habits forever. Read a book. I meant LISTEN to a book. It’s soooo much cheaper. Unported License.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 18, 2010

If you’d like to know more go to where at the bottom of the page you can also download – “Basic Instincts” an article I wrote– for Dynamic Small Business. It is different from, yet complimentary to assessments that measure personality and skills. It’s available on line with a huge report included. Next post: This Is Broken (with Seth Godin).

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Steve Farber

MAY 25, 2018

Talk about walking the walk … when her company did a ‘180’ from bankruptcy to double digit annual gains, people development expert Indie Bollman along with the company CEO gave much credit to application of the LEAP and Greater Than Yourself approaches created by Steve Farber. Click here to download the Trailer Bridge case study].

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