N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

Great businesses are in constant search of improvement, innovation, change, disruption, knowledge and other strategic leverage points that lead to a competitive advantage or operational enhancement. Don’t fall into the rut of allowing your business to be trapped in a perpetual state of static thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. As we approach this 4th of July weekend I can’t help but think of our founding fathers and the sacrifices they made when they fought to establish our country’s freedom.

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Brand Depreciation Blog Politics 302

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. The companies that employed me were generally the underdogs in battles against bigger, better-financed organizations. Competitive situations create a distinct individual and team behavior.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management. LeadsandBids.com A virtual platform offering a network of services and proposes to bring contractors, property owners, finance, insurance, real estate and other pertinent services together. Inc.com Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Moreover if they decide to develop the application should this be done internally with existing staff, or outsourced, and if outsourced will it be done domestically or offshore and who will manage the process. Oh, and what about development methodology?

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Blog Outsourcing Competitive Advantage Innovation 295

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

However, the traditional business plan is only widely used and includes; Creating an executive summary mentioning the mission statement, vision, services, employees, leadership team, location, products, of your business. Accurately Evaluating Your Finances and Funding Your Business. Choose Your Business Structure Wisely. Conclusion.

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Break-even Analysis Analysis Licensing Price 78

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2013

You would think that an Ivy League institution like Cornell University would be a model of the best practices of leadership throughout its organization since Cornell and most universities believe they are growing the next generation of leaders for our country and our world. not necessarily and not always. That got everyone’s attention!

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Leadership Training Peer Review Budgeting 64

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable. Talent is clearly a plus as long as it is a value add and not a business requirement.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 298

HR Digest

MAY 3, 2019

"Workforce Skills Upgrade: A New Competitive Advantage" SAP is one of the few companies leading diversity & Inclusion, having implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade since 2017. The HR Digest: Under your leadership, SAP successfully implemented a comprehensive workforce skills upgrade in 2017.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. However my question to you is this: What is leadership without action? Sound harsh?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2012

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Management and Leadership – Leadership Lessons from the United States Naval Academy: 3 Minute Rule. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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Resources Attrition Competitive Advantage Bottom-up 53

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. Here is John’s networking and leadership history in the Charlotte Chamber: Business Growth Network. A higher level membership that attracts more of the high-level business owners and managers. But, everyone is different.

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Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Between surging demand, labor shortages, outdated air traffic management, and travel reservation I.T. Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Synchronize siloed processes : Imagine if ATC activities were standard but siloed off from other aviation processes, such as airport gate management.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 269

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2015

Think: health and finances. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. My mother died. I’m getting married.

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

What effective managers and leaders must recognize is that it begins with caring about the people who drive your business. Poor Management Leads to Poor Employees. Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. Managers and leaders are not made equal.

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Motivation Environment Servant Leader Competitive Advantage 59

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Sure, great leaders never lose sight of their core business, they pay attention to managing risk, etc., Best, Leadership Freak, Dan Rockell pastortom2022 Hello Mike, another great post and this one, like others you write, makes us think. What’s interesting is that the best leaders proactively focus on looking for game changers.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Provide examples on how you attract top talent and manage teams to achieve results.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

Strategy Driven

APRIL 5, 2012

EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Recommended Resource – Finance Without Fear. Start your FREE trial membership * and receive: FULL ACCESS to StrategyDriven’s premium content for 14 days. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. IT went from being a potential source of competitive advantage to being a necessity for competitive parity.

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Competitive Advantage Management Information Technology Airlines 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As a leader and manager, it is quite likely at some point during your career that you will encounter employees with personal problems. New managers often carry a naive belief that the personal issues of employees are irrelevant to their performance on the job and something that can be ignored. But that would be in a perfect world.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

As Clayton Christensen likes to note , the primary job of leadership today is to “source, assemble, and ship numbers.” The first is a true “consumer is boss” mind-set, which recognizes that the only path to sustainable competitive advantage is to create customer value. Innovation Leadership Strategy'

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

An idea is not synonymous with a competitive advantage, an idea is not necessarily a sign of creativity, an idea does not constitute innovation, and as much as some people wish it was so, an idea is certainly not a business. I want to start by actually defining what an idea is, and is not.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Just because something is written in a vision or mission statement, placed on a website, included in company collateral material, or frequently espoused by corporate leadership as a competitive value proposition doesn’t necessarily mean its true.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 310

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

In the spirit of reverse innovation, and reverse mentoring , I submit to you that the next trend to watch out for in leadership is, you guessed it — reverse leadership. You've likely seen reverse leadership in action. Reverse leadership doesn't replace regular leadership. Quite the contrary.

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Self-aware Competitive Advantage Follow-up Content 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Our research, conducted in partnership with Harvard Business Review, The Economist, CEB (formerly the Corporate Executive Board), Intel, and TNS Global, finds that corporate leadership has lost confidence in the CIO as a strategic partner and views IT as a commodity rather than a difference-maker.

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CIO Crisis Competitive Advantage Webinar 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. As head of the world’s largest asset manager, with $4.6 Some leadership teams have served as guiding examples of how to overturn short-termism and reorient their enterprise.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2011

In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. Each new book finds just the right question, the point of intersection between the timeless issue — performance — and the timely challenge managers are grappling with today. Be disciplined. Be empirical.

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Porter Collins Competitive Advantage Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

But as Kevin Nolan, vice president of technology, said, “With FastWorks we’re learning that speed is our competitive advantage. To make FastWorks work, changes have been made in several areas, including supplier relations, finance, and roles and responsibilities: Supplier relations. At times it drove the materials manager crazy.”

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Ries Waterman Finance Competitive Advantage 10

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I often observe ego centered conflicts among senior executives, which turn into a competition for turf, budget, power, influence, control, and ultimately survival. And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Robinson recently received its World Finance Sustainability Awards 2022. It is a key competitive advantage. How are you planning to manage these challenges? What is the number one leadership competency required in today’s fast-paced, unpredictable world? The HR Digest: C.

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Supply Chain Human Resources Diversity Transportation 109

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. The senior leadership group mustn''t just pay lip service to the CIO and his or her team. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology. In many cases, the change-management challenges of incorporating AI into employee processes and decision making far outweigh technical AI implementation challenges.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. However, the core skills they need are different. Take Allianz, a German financial services company.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He wasnt a process manager. Operations : Approaches problems practically; stands firm on issues, perseveres; maintains a standard of consistency and quality; provides stable leadership and supervision; develops detailed plans and procedures; implements projects in a timely manner; keeps financial records straight. We all have.

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