N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Now that we’ve identified the trends, let’s focus our attention on specific business problems to be solved by the addition of senior leadership talent in the consumer packaged goods space. How common is it for CPGs to hire for key positions outside the industry? Is this something you’re seeing happen more often?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

This new definition revolves around appreciating employees and, done right, can become your greatest competitive advantage. By following the redefined VUCA “people” competencies, your leaders will build a culture of loyalty and respect. Lorraine is president of the consulting firm Lessons in Loyalty.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

He feels a tremendous sense of loyalty to these people, and they have shown him the same in return. In fact, it’s the most remarkable example of a shared sense of loyalty that I have ever heard. These people have invested practically their entire lives in my dad and his business. My father always keeps that thought top of mind.

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Brigette Hyacinth

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

A Gallup study concluded that companies with higher-than-average employee engagement also had 27% higher profits, 50% higher sales and 50% higher customer loyalty. In this volatile global marketplace, happy loyal employees are your biggest competitive advantage.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Leaders should also work to avoid SRT Leadership Traps – traps such as, getting in your own way, succumbing to paralysis by analysis, allowing your Board to be your customer and rushing the Reset. Here you employ “Survive Basics,” or the 4 C’s: Cash, Cost, Customer (retention, loyalty, stickiness), and Communication.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. What he meant by that is that nobody owed us (me) a job.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. My father always told me, “don’t steal from the hand that feeds you.”

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Brigette Hyacinth

APRIL 9, 2020

Reactionary management is not strategic leadership. You would be losing intellectual resources and at a bigger risk of not maintaining a competitive advantage. Loyalty is a two-way street. Demonstrate that you value people and in return, you will earn their loyalty. They are your best brand ambassadors.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

As the following list indicates, competition can come in the form of any one or combination of the following potential threats: Existing or potential direct and indirect competitors. Existing clients or end-users that could either become competition or strengthen your competitors if they have a change in loyalty.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 3, 2017

households with at least one dog according to ASPCA, many of us don't have to go far to learn about leadership. That's because, according to co-authors Krissi and Dan Barr , dogs can teach humans a lot about leadership. Unfortunately, most employees don’t feel that same sense of loyalty. When times are tough, loyalty is tested.

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Brigette Hyacinth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The biggest danger of leadership: Arrogance. It turns out, humility offers a competitive advantage. So why has arrogant or narcissistic leaders become the norm: It has been historically perceived that humility is a sign of weakness and an antithesis to leadership. Jim Collins. The Power of Humility in the Workplace.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Her leadership helped save it. Stated another way, these leadership behaviors create a team that pulls together and protects the culture from spiraling down into a dog-eat-dog environment. Although she couldn’t pay them more, she found creative ways to reward their loyalty and effort. What can be done to save it?

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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. Employers who seize the opportunity to satisfy employees’ needs will re-discover loyalty in the work force. So will a flexible work week.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. Each chapter is comprised of short sections, often about the length of a blog posting.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. He believed that it was a privilege to be employed and that we owed our loyalty, dedication and hard work to our employer.

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Brigette Hyacinth

JUNE 3, 2019

A Gallup study concluded that companies with higher-than-average employee engagement also had 27% higher profits, 50% higher sales and 50% higher customer loyalty. In this volatile global marketplace, happy loyal employees are your biggest competitive advantage.

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In leading today's knowledge workers, it is important to invert the pyramid and look at leadership vis-a-vis the wants and needs of the professional - as opposed to the skills of the leader. Loyalty will be gained through learning - not just earning. Their loyalty to former employees helps lead to loyalty from future customers.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

If you do, you’ll build tremendous loyalty, trust, and engagement, which is priceless. CrisMarie Campbell and Susan Clarke are coaches, business consultants, speakers, and co- authors of The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage. That’s right. People will be the ones implementing the change.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

’ Here are the actions I have observed about leadership that are mandatory for leadership success. All other leadership characteristics and outcomes fade if there is a lack of truth. If training is to have a lasting value, it must have leadership support AND participation. BUT not without gambling. Same in life.).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2014

Every organization is looking to create and protect its competitive advantage and those often come in two flavors – resources or capabilities – and talent (your people) help you create, sustain and protect both. the employer-employee contract of loyalty is gone), fluid (e.g. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Pabulum leadership words really bug me – but not as bad as they may bug you if they’re uttered by your leader. So why is there so much leadership mediocrity? I read a lot of stuff about leaders and leadership. That’s leadership. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

You have to look at leadership through the wants and needs of the worker as opposed to the skills of the leader. Leaders who enable people to form strong networks both inside and outside the company will gain a huge competitive advantage along with the loyalty of their workers.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Your competitive advantage is found in ongoing and consistent professional and personal development of the people on your team. Theseus knew to focus on what so many leaders neglect – maintaining employee engagement and loyalty by growing and developing them as individual contributors.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

Army: Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal courage. Developing this trust starts with loyalty. Loyalty is subjective, but its basic definition is faithfulness to the commitments you’ve made and remaining true to the obligations at hand. This loyalty I describe is behavioral.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

PERSONAL NOTE: When I saw the statistic that 68% of Facebook usage is mobile, I realized the revolution was in full swing and those not playing hard would lose sales, loyalty, goodwill, reputation, and profit. In short, pacesetters use technology for the competitive advantage and the results are more profitable business outcomes.

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 29, 2019

“Brand helps us engage customers and employees, unleash our competitive advantage, and fuel enduring growth,” explains Lindsay Pedersen, author of the new book, Forging An Iron Clad Brand: A Leader’s Guide.” “And And yet, despite this power of brand, it is grossly underused. Tell stories. We humans love stories. They bind us.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Loyalty of customers. A far cry from satisfaction, customer loyalty is at the heart of growing the business and increasing percentages of profit. Loyalty of employees. The secret to loyalty is to hire smart, happy, self-starting people with a history of success. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

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ExactHire - Leadership

JUNE 3, 2021

Employee retention and morale go down, customer service suffers and companies struggle to maintain a competitive advantage. Personality traits like motivation and loyalty may be more important than oodles of work experience. Remember one of Amazon’s Leadership Principles: a bias for action.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Let me tell you a little leadership secret regarding business success…it’s not about getting everyone to work harder; my experience has shown me that everyone is working pretty hard already. This is a tough skill to master, but when this leadership behavior is committed to, taught, and modeled, the outcomes will be magic.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2014

Earn customer loyalty. Loyalty is earned slowly over time. Loyalty is gained with quality of product, ease of doing business, availability of people, online alternatives to both purchasing and service, speed of response, and value received. Loyalty is defined in two parts : Part one: Will the customer do business with you again?

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Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Leaders are debating the changing nature of work and the perceived decline in job security (the lifelong career at a benevolent company is a fading memory) and the erosion of corporate loyalty. The “intellectual capital” brought in by high-knowledge employees will be a major, if not the primary, competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2014

Getting loyalty because you earned it. Giving loyalty because it’s your philosophy. 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.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Talk about the issues they value the most – loyalty, productivity, morale, and profit. Maybe ask a question or two about their vision or leadership philosophy, and leave. IDEA: create a blog around executive leadership philosophies. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

That strong people culture ignited rapid growth and became their competitive advantage in a high commodity industry. Overt aspects of culture often utilize the reasoning, intellectual parts of our brain — the dominant focus of today’s leadership teams. The same is true in the world of leadership and culture.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Many business leaders claim to have competitive advantage and yet they struggle to achieve the growth that they think is possible. Poor customer service is a killer of customer loyalty. Other companies turn strategy into a big annual leadership retreat. Leadership Tip: Be vulnerable. Grow Your Business.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2013

Relationships are based on mutual value provided, mutual loyalty exchanged, truth, and trust. The power of loyalty. That’s loyalty. 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!

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