Leading Blog

JULY 26, 2021

Our primary goal is to ensure that our customers have a safe, enjoyable, comfortable, and hopefully life-changing experience while getting a permanent piece of body art, body piercing, or simply dabbling our lifestyle by purchasing unique fashion or jewelry that we offer as part of the Club Tattoo experience.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

If you think CEO means chief everything officer, your tenure in the C-suite won’t be long. Attempting to do everything yourself is nothing short of a recipe for disaster as a CEO, and in fact, is exactly the opposite of how top performing CEOs think. Overspending is a tactic for the lazy or the incompetent.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

This phenomenon is occurring during a time where employment markets worldwide have never been more competitive. The reality is in maturing and complex market environments clients’ demand more from their service providers. I think not. Approaching talent management in a fractionalized approach is an inefficient and flawed process.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

No serious strategic moves will be made without them being part of the decision-making; however, markets, customers, supply chains, manufacturing processes and everything else in the age of “digital connectivity” changes too fast for a traditional organization to react in a timely fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 29, 2012

” If you read this article it would lead you to believe blogging is in decline and on it’s way out as a marketing tool. We’ve all watched many a blog launch in prolific fashion only to die a slow public death weeks or months down the road. To extend marketing efforts. To build trust. To make money.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It means communicating gratitude in a fashion that makes associates feel leaders’ authenticity. At the annual Southwest Airlines Halloween party, CEO Gary Kelly showed up dressed as KISS. It is Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh working in the call center on the phone when call volume is especially high. Sprinkles Show You Care.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

While I rarely meet a CEO who is completely comfortable with turning the hiring process over to HR, most of them still seem to acquiesce and do exactly that…&# Who should do the hiring?&# is a question that more CEOs should spend time pondering. Here’s the thing; Anyone can make a hire, but not all hires are good hires.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

I didn’t think I was going to enjoy Kevin Murray’s new book on how top CEOs communicate to inspire, influence and achieve results. In an easy to read story-telling fashion, the author sticks to his main topic – but in very short order, he identifies the critical issues leaders should be communicating and why. I have to be honest.

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Fashion Crisis Audience Entrepreneur 197

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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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Luca de Meo, as head of marketing at Volkswagen AG, created a series of two-day events called Marketing Works! which were solely aimed at creating a strong collaboration ethic and served as a chance for assembling people from all over the world who had deep histories of working separately or in the fashion of a linear fire brigade.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Social media expands my reach and influence and allows me help people I would not otherwise interact with in a meaningful fashion. Eric Shinseki, former Army Chief of Staff, Alan Mulally, CEO of the Ford Motor Company, and Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts. but everything to do with helping people.

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Blog Leadership Brand Media 338

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In addition, you may have put together great content for that Human Resources talk, but tomorrow you are talking to the marketing team. Simply, you can’t beat good old-fashioned hard work. For instance, just because your audience loved your design of your slides last week, doesn’t mean this next group will join them in their adoration.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 10, 2020

Until recently, very few CEOs, IT, or marketing professionals would have put ‘data optimization’ high on the list of agenda items that keep them up at night. As a result, their trustworthiness among customers in any niche industry grows, and they become seen as market leaders. Direct Sources.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

High on the list is weak marketing, weak management, and weak strategic discipline. Maybe it’s because the leaders of these enterprises didn’t believe they could succeed the old fashioned way. Porsche is enjoying a vibrant auto market. There’s a host of reasons why great brands decay. I could add a dozen more.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transitional: Polish your image and brand – hit the gym, change your fashions, and show them what you can do for them. They market, produce the itch, and make the sale — then they forget to close or leave them hanging. Business Owner: What one thing do you do that can change people’s lives or fill a hole in their life?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. By actually seeking out areas of potential conflict and proactively intervening in a fair and decisive fashion you will likely prevent certain conflicts from ever arising.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Grounded in solid research and three decades of entrepreneurial experience, this book has one purpose: to teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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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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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 27, 2013

A recent study has found that less than a third of Fortune 500 CEOs are active on any given social media platform (not surprisingly, LinkedIn had the most CEO accounts, though Twitter has seen the most growth in terms of new CEO accounts).

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If someone comes to you about a problem with another person, immediately redirect that individual back to the person in question.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Remember that great CEOs see themselves not as masters of the universe, but as inspirational servants, catalysts, teachers, and team builders…Again, I would strongly encourage you to think “leader&# and not “dictator.&# Reflect back to your time as a student…which educators brought out the best in you?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Popular business axioms and management theories are thrown around in such cavalier fashion these days that they can actually result in flawed decisioning. Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

This is simply due to the fact that more people want to hear what a high profile CEO or entrepreneur has to say. What if I could recreate the fashion in which I already do something, but make it public in order to benefit as many people as possible? Taking into account the above considerations, not everyone can or should blog.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Lack of Focus and Follow-Through : Those leaders who lack the focus and attention to detail needed to apply leverage and resources in an aggressive and committed fashion will perish. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. Successful leaders focus on customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. So if someone is looking or approaching you — you might not realize that you are actually presenting yourself with a less than appealing demeanor. This work by Rich Gee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. They get the job done, they stand out from the crowd, they don’t need identifying – you know who they are. I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., I’ve never been a fan of what I refer to as “make-work” disciplines.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. In the text that follows I’ll examine the softer sides of leadership – love, compassion, humility, kindness and empathy.

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Blog Leadership Brand Reputation 419

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Between recent high-profile hires from the fashion and watch industries to the rumored 18-karat gold Apple Watch, some observers are fretting about the company’s trend toward catering to the highly profitable 1%, possibly at the expense of the rest of us. Will Geniuses be replaced with trend-setting fashion consultants?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. Let me explain.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Lastly, he's done an incredible job marketing himself.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

As we approach earnings season, investors should listen carefully to what CEOs plan to do with the money. At a recent investor conference, one of us heard a CEO proudly state that the new law would have no effect at all on how his company views investments. The new U.S. tax law is likely to increase after-tax cash flows for U.S.-based

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The culture of "big" — big budgets, big campaigns, big reports — has driven marketing decisions and budgets for decades. In an age when consumers decide within seconds whether or not to abandon a web site, big marketers need to act more like agile startups, maneuvering and adapting in real-time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] says Adobe CEO Shantanyu Narayen (#7 on our list). “I He was reclusive and kept rigid habits (he worked each day from 9 a.m.

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