In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

The seemingly more attractive (and logical) option is to do more and more – the theory being the more markets, products, and businesses a company engages in, the better the results. The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Farsightedness is essential to effective leadership. This is not true.

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Company Apparel Competitive Advantage Long-term 177

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

I’ll start with leadership. Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. Qualitative cultures are about the creativity, the ingenuity, and the innovation created by the human resource, not the financial resource. There are far more than you think.

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Competitive Advantage How To Human Resources Strategy 100

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. PHOTOS: SAP.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Leadership. by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management.

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Strategy CEO Company Competitive Advantage 131

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 19, 2012

History has shown us that the best performers were those who made the right strategic moves to create a future in which their company would enjoy significant competitive advantage. I know from my marketing background that the human brain can absorb only so much. Business will be more complex. CEOs will be time-starved.

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CEO Competitive Advantage Teamwork Marketing 204

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 27, 2011

Leadership. ‘Doing Right Things’ or ‘Doing Things Right’ by John • March 28, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 0 Comments. But good management isn’t necessarily good leadership; good leaders are obsessed with doing right things. Human Resources.

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CEO Human Resources Bureaucracy Brand 100

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

There is one universal principle that determines the degree of success of all businesses: Be the preferred provider to your markets. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. “Trust among the leadership team is paramount to the success of their organizations.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. The delusion is that market share is the “be all and end all” of business success. Their horizon is markets that do not exist.

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Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

LDRLB

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Marty Parker attempts to tackle this “how” question in his book, Culture Connection: How Developing a Winning Culture Will Give Your Organization a Competitive Advantage. Culture connection: How developing a winning culture will give your organization a competitive advantage. New York: McGraw Hill.

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Books Review Competitive Advantage Hotels 115

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

One of our pharmaceutical clients was recently recognized for successfully executing his company’s strategy and told us: “If I had to do it over again, I would have had the human resources organization intimately involved much sooner to ensure that our organization and people were prepared to deliver. That is the good news.

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Process Agility Competitive Advantage Strategy 150

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 1, 2016

Thirty-five years ago at a ceremony in Vancouver, BC, I accepted AMA’s Marketer-of-the-Year Award on behalf of Nabob Foods. That night, I presented the marketing strategy that catapulted a regional brand to national leadership in Canada. Nor do they understand how to leverage focus and specialization for competitive advantage.

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Brand Competitive Advantage Marketing Strategy CEO 100

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. All businesses have competition, serve stakeholders and other various constituencies, and must do certain things to avoid failure while on the path to creating a sustainable endeavor.

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Blog Brand Depreciation CEO 288

Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. Jason Richmond.

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How To Middle Management Reputation Short-term 107

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

One of the best sources of understanding is experience, such as in-market know-how, familiarity with competitors and customers, or expertise in leading during turbulent times. Moving on your instincts is not seat-of-the-pants leadership. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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Power Competitive Advantage Airlines Information 100

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 28, 2012

With the exception of mega-company “clout” in the marketplace, sustainable competitive advantage cannot survive in toxic cultures. That is sustainable competitive advantage. I am simply advocating that culture should be as important to a company’s Board of Directors as the business strategy.

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Competitive Advantage Long-term CEO Ethics 131

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. Employee Engagement Leadership' Retaining High-Impact Performers .

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Bureaucracy Intellectual Capital Kotter Telecommunications 151

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. It means being anything that we want to be.

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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. You must appeal to all of these audiences.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Success via competitiveness has many dimensions: Production efficiency became America’s focus by the 1950′s. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Even worse, functional processes — finance, human resources, sales, etc. Candidates for newly created organization processes include those that are common across business units/markets, that are transactional in nature, and that can be “operationalized.” They result in information hoarding and lack of communication.

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Industry Stage-Gate Organization Company 270

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

Both have advantages. Inside candidates, often groomed by their predecessors, bring firm-, market-, and industry-specific knowledge that outsiders might take years to acquire. Second, the fit between theoretical descriptions of competitive advantage and commonly used organizational outcome measures is inadequate.

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CEO Competitive Advantage Productivity Products 8

Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Change required for HR, Recruitment and people leadership. To do this front line employees need to be trusted with the resources required. Managers and leaders need to realise that the data they can get from front line staff and customers can be a real competitive advantage. This means a whole new way of working.

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B2B Competitive Advantage Trends Learning-by-Doing 49

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

Instead of cutting human resource jobs (which seems counterproductive for a company that employs 2.3 million people) and closing new store formats (which make the brand more convenient and accessible to more people), Walmart should invest to advance its strongest competitive advantage: its physical stores.

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IT Strategy Strategy Core Competence Price 11

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. Victorio M. So it''s not just us!

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Even better, they would respond 10 times faster to market moves than existing processes while requiring minimal human intervention. They’re analogous to autonomous resources, as opposed to human resources, departments. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

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Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Academics have been writing about the Resource-Based View (RBV) — a theory of how companies can gain competitive advantage from their unique and valuable resources — since the 1980s, though the idea has been around for longer. For the financial resources, they used each movie’s production budget.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Organizations don't simply wake up to the notion that they will succeed with analytics; they need leaders to show them why and how to seize this new source of competitive advantage. Perhaps, like Beane, you aren't highly analytical yourself.

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Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

To thwart the impact of low-cost foreign competition and to meet the accelerating demands of customers and shareholders, they embark on doing more, and adding more. Although Coca-Cola sales lag those of their food and beverage arch rival, Coke’s profit and market cap significantly outpaces Pepsi.

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Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 26, 2011

Leadership. by John • June 27, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. The process was excellent – several initiatives competing for a page of limited real estate, healthy debates on competitive advantage and timelines, cultural soul searching. Human Resources. Leadership.

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Strategic Planning Planning CEO SWOT 100

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Can’t change the weather or the world.

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Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 79

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

It shouldn’t matter if you are in the finance department or leading the marketing team. I recently talked with the Chief Human Resource Officer of a significant player in the insurance industry about this exact topic. Get your hands dirty: Intentionally plan to get in the field of sales and then do it. Visit the “trenches!”

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Team Insurance Human Resources Strategy 289

In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

Leadership. by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. That’s because the competitive advantage of the giant is scale. Check their market cap and reputation for innovation. Less than two years and I was in marketing. Human Resources. Leadership.

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CEO Advice Company Competitive Advantage 170

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth. Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values.

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