N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

We carefully planned our route based on a series of speaking events, conferences, and workshops that maximized our ability to gather as many diverse leaders in one location at the same time. Our journey continued to the United Kingdom, where we met our N2Growth EMEAA team conducting its annual corporate conference.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). Covey has garnered the loyalty and love of her students, something that she still evokes in my daughters even though they have long since left her classroom. but you’ll not find that here. For me, Ms.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. What’s your proactive marketing approach to loyalty? You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” The phone is smart. How smart is the user?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

To mitigate the investing risks associated with eroding market opportunities due to copycats, investors always look for companies with strong competitive resilience or those that are operating in markets with a high barrier to entry. For instance, pioneers can command strong market loyalty that could be difficult for copycats to overcome.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Ordinarily when tech companies do this, they hold a big press conference. The term Jeff-Bot does connote a bit of mimicry, but it’s also about loyalty. Once you’ve proven that you have the right mix of visionary insight and operating capabilities, Wall Street lets you get away with a lot. He did all the product demos himself.

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Decentralization CEO Operations Leadership Styles 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

There is a clear and growing divide among global companies operating in China. Depending on what you choose, your strategy on talent management in China will be one of the legacies or liabilities of your operational strategy here. conference calls with the east coast more tolerable. Do it right now.

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Globalization Attrition Skills Learning-by-Doing 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Compare that to Whole Foods, whose latest 10-K filing makes far fewer references to price, and cites low prices not only as a clear risk factor, but also one which contributed to its recent declines in operating income and net income. Amazon must change that price perception in the stores, in the media, and internally.

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Price Retail Competitive Advantage Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

I was recently asked to give a talk about family businesses, and the conference organizer told me not to even mention the “three generation rule.” This was the era of the company man, where employees exchanged long-term loyalty for a livable wage and a pension plan. ” He’s perfectly right.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Think about it this way: if you were in charge of your company’s booth at a trade show or conference, you wouldn’t just slap your company’s logo onto a piece of poster board, place your business cards on the table, and hope for the best, would you? Far from it, actually. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When the staff conversation turns to operating margins, cash flow, inventory, or revenue, does the CHRO tune out? Last year I was at an HR conference where someone asked "What is YouTube?") Operating as efficiently as possible is a minimum expectation. Does your CHRO use a smart phone?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2013

Unfortunately, most organizations don''t know what it means to have a relationship with a customer, even though they have a customer list, an email database, or even a loyalty program. But it''s the CMO who should have the vision of what the customer relationship could mean for all involved.

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Insurance Brand Disruptive Innovation Download 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Even lengthy conference calls were opportunities for spontaneous sharing, personal connection, and productive problem-solving. I was disgusted when budgeting decisions were turned into tests of loyalty. You can’t expect an organization to operate at a higher moral level than the one you hold yourself to. It was Camelot.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

I no longer operated in my personal sweet spot, where my sense of accomplishment after closing a difficult sale or launching a new product was contingent on my having had a concrete deliverable and the sense that my efforts were integral to its success. I was merely managing the people who actually did and made things.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. It sounds like your conference offers a great message to those in need of hearing it. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends.

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Definition Blog Leadership Covey 307

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Patronizing, belittling or sarcastic leaders forgo trust and loyalty to prop-up their ego – big mistake. link] Mike Myatt Thanks for the kind words and for sharing the link Geoff. link] Mike Myatt You’re most welcome Sir. link] Mike Myatt True words of wisdom Bert. Thanks for sharing Bert. Attitudes are ingrained into people.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 1, 2011

The theme of this year’s conference was “ The New Leadership and Loyalty Business ”, and in my presentation and work session, I spoke about a leadership “model” that can be used by leaders in just about any situation – a model that, if it is applied correctly, will put a business, organization, or non-profit on the fast track to excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments.

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Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

A few electrical issues in the spa and conference center, but nothing to worry about.". Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. Now let's see the conference center. Palma Cay's first month," he said.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

That was the message of Edward Snowden’s keynote conversation at the SXSW Interactive conference this week, conducted via (highly protected) video link. If the vast majority of transactions are itemized and trackable through loyalty cards, credit cards and social login, the transactions your customers keep private start to look suspicious.

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