N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing. Therefor by definition it is not unique or likely to generate any competitive advantage. I always appreciate your insights William.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

Crafting and writing a branded healthcare executive resume, that differs from the traditional medical resume, can make a significant difference in your executive job search results and improve the opportunities to land that next-level position in pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device industries.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

They don’t tell you how well the business is positioned for future growth and ROIC improvement. Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance. It took many years for the company to regain its lost position.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. Far too often people end up rising the ladder only to find them in position for which they are ill prepared. A critical part of the talent management life-cycle is leadership development.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

If I read your definition correctly, you are limiting game-changers to positive developments or innovations. That is to say: they are finding competitive advantage in what were historically reckoned to be (or ignored as) externalities. Many a skilled leader has fallen prey to this circumstance. I agree with both of you.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

But it will impact the way many jobs are performed, requiring new skills and making many existing skills less valuable. The World Economic Forum predicts that “by 2020, more than a third of the desired core skill sets of most occupations will be comprised of skills that are not yet considered crucial to the job today.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that improving working conditions (which typically costs money) would undermine the competitive advantage these firms enjoy. Could lean manufacturing have a similar positive impact on jobs in the developing world? Producers in less-developed countries compete by keeping costs low.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Still others have some leadership abilities but lack some vital element of leadership, like the sales professional who excels in creating strategy but doesn't yet have the skills needed to manage a sales team. But I'm not seeing many organizations able to recognize them — or cultivate their talents to gain a competitive advantage.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

Expert Q&A with Jason Tyszko on how to raise the skills of your employees to meet upcoming automation challenges. . This has less to do with rapidly evolving jobs, and more with the discrepancy between the skills people have and those needed for their future employability. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” he said.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Companies can fill this need and gain competitive advantage by transforming their stakeholders from bystanders to owners and make sustainability, including as it pertains to social good, part of their purpose. My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench.

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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

MAY 3, 2016

The challenge is convincing all those talented individuals seeking finance and consulting positions to take the leap into starting a new venture. Employees there learn hard skills, such as project management, but also softer skills, such as politics and networking. Not all top startups come from Silicon Valley.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

What’s our biggest risk in this, and what’s your fallback position? How does it drive revenue, profit, brand equity, competitive advantage, etc. What do you need from me in order to make that happen? That’s an interesting thought, what process did you go through to reach that conclusion?

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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 Designing a consistently positive, rewarding experience across all those touchpoints takes system-wide thinking and an integrated service-delivery approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

First, you have to position data science as its own entity. Don’t bury it under another department like marketing, product, finance, etc. Instead of positioning data science as a supportive team in service to other departments, make it responsible for business goals. .” This is a very different way of doing things.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Hailed in the 1960s as bastions of sophisticated management, they used cheap financing to acquire, then rationalize, many family-owned firms. With GE’s recent announcement to split off its remaining finance operations , and Honeywell also considering divestment, the pressure on these groups remains in force.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Boardrooms at home in China must also begin to reflect a cross-section of cultures and skills. Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

You are able to position yourself as a true thought leader in your industry, separating yourself from competitors. Explicit with the cultural transformation is the need to develop the skills of a publisher, which most businesses sorely lacking. Content marketing cannot be done by someone in finance that kinda dabbles in writing.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

In fact, at the risk of being controversial I’m going to take the position that perfection does not exist. Moreover, the pursuit of perfectionism rarely results in a competitive advantage, but it will result in time delays, cost overruns, missed deadlines, and unkept commitments. New Flash : speed trumps perfectionism.

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