Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

I N THE AGE of digitization, businesses face a critical imperative: to adapt and embrace innovation or risk being left behind in a rapidly evolving world. This force is called creative destruction, which is the process where innovation and technology advancements are reshaping industries and business models.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2020

Beyond solving strategic business or sales problems, how can we build our creative problem-solving capabilities to become more competitive in our careers and industries? As I’m fond of saying, “You can’t offshore, automate, or AI creativity.” Using Design Thinking to Solve Your Biggest Challenge (ATD Press).

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2024

Moreover, a tech-savvy approach to recruitment signals to potential candidates that your company is forward-thinking and innovative, which can be a strong attractor for top talent. One effective way to enhance your employer brand is through strategic partnerships with HR consultancy companies.

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LDRLB

JULY 31, 2013

Besides perhaps savoring the moment of schadenfreude that comes with locking someone in an imaginary tower, such visualization also yields some insights into how to our own creativity works. It turns out, we’re more creative when we’re solving the problems of others rather than our own. This isn’t just the creative power of altruism.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This self-awareness and continuous self-development are essential for leaders to adapt to changing market dynamics and effectively lead their teams through various challenges and opportunities. Cultivating collaborative spaces fosters innovation, promotes cross-functional problem-solving, and enhances decision-making processes.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. Many digitally native startups seem to find a third way - a digitally enabled non-disruptive creative growth. I’ve learned this is not always true.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lisa Kohn of Chatsworth Consulting Group shared The Secret to Ending an Argument. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed Perfectly Imperfect. Angela Hummel of Angela Hummel Consulting writes New Leaders and Bulls in China Shops. Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed Making Yourself Promotable.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. In the future, people will work less in siloes and more across functions—again, due to the role of specialized consultant that they’ll often be playing. Specialized areas of expertise.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Kodak invented the digital camera and never marketed it because executives saw it as a lower quality competitor to film. For any idea to be truly great, a breakthrough innovation, it usually has to be both novel and useful. We train people on creative thinking techniques or bring in consultants to develop the ideas for us.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 4, 2013

Many years ago, I had the opportunity to work for InterBrew (now AB-InBev) in a strategic consulting capacity. Marketers of Michelob, Fosters, Miller Genuine Draft, Black Label, and Labatt’s 50 have all walked this path. The key to success in beer marketing is keeping the brand fresh. Easier said than done.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Additionally, the entrepreneur must constantly adapt to rapidly changing market conditions and emerging trends, which requires a high degree of agility and resilience. This means they must possess diverse skills and knowledge, from finance and marketing to operations and human resources.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2020

Guest post from Sean Pillot de Chenecey : Innovation, on which any organisation is so reliant, is about to become more dynamic and challenging than ever. Major action is needed, with businesses in every industry, including the ever-widening area of innovation, having crucial roles to play.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Unlock Creativity You’re brimming with ideas. A coach helps you sift through the noise and hone in on innovations that resonate with your mission and market. A coach helps you cultivate resilience and a growth mindset, tools you’ll need when the going gets tough. Set Measurable Goals Clarity is key.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 22, 2011

Here is a simple creative exercise to use personally or before you next team creative challenge. I can’t remember the contents of the article, but I remember the headline of “Obliterate, don’t innovate&#. The best part of the short post I referred you to is the pictures of the initial designs.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe A Survey for Trainers, Consultants and Coaches by Kevin Eikenberry on December 20, 2010 in Personal Development , Surveys , Telesminars This announcement and opportunity is a bit more targeted than what I normally post here.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Ken Byler of Higher Ground Consulting Group contributed How Not to Be Defensive. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided How to Create a Monthly Finance Routine. You need to be proactive in helping your employees develop a strategy for remaining marketable and valuable through these transitions.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. There is always room for new thinking and innovation, or at least there should be. Put simply; don’t copy – create.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].

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Talent Anarchy 1

AUGUST 25, 2023

In today’s ever-evolving job market, individuals are constantly on the lookout for career paths that promise stability, growth, and fulfillment. Sales and Marketing One of the most prominent career paths within consumer non-durables is sales and marketing. They work on strategies to enhance brand recognition and loyalty.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Bob Lieberman is a business leadership consultant based in the Pacific Northwest. His company, Cultivating Creativity, LLC (cultivatingcreativity.net) helps other companies increase their ability to perform and adapt, by capitalizing on the creative potential of the talent they already have. You can find more at [link].

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Study a particular subfield within your area of knowledge in order to develop specialized knowledge that will make you highly marketable in that realm. In the future, people will work less in siloes and more across functions—again, due to the role of specialized consultant that they’ll often be playing. Specialized areas of expertise.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 7, 2017

In my experience, many companies view “growth” as increased top-line revenue or sales, additional product lines, or entry into new markets, for example. Innovation and creativity are supplanted by overhead creep, loss of productivity, and poor business decisions. And there is a reason for that distinction.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 16, 2011

Tough-Minded Ways to Innovate. I can tell you, the articles’ principles helped guide me as a CEO and later as a strategy consultant. But after Pearson’s corporate life atop PepsiCo, he became an insightful HBR contributor, particularly with regard to innovation. Innovative companies are led by innovative leaders.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. By adding digital without compromising the quality of the 160-year-old brand, Burberry regained market superiority in the new retail economy. Embrace disruption.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Consulting giant McKinsey recently argued that the talk about Asian economic hegemony has been largely underestimated. This lack of technological legacy has enabled such a rapid pace of innovation to unfold that the majority of financial transactions are now completed via mobile phones. Digital dominance.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

But given the shockwaves reverberating from the market disruption that’s taking place, many normal business models are no longer operational, and new models must emerge. Compare the diverse and innovative social media postings with some of the messaging coming from companies during this pandemic. The Make Your Case process involves: 1.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 30, 2022

That’s why consulting with a customer experience agency can keep you on the right track and help implement necessary changes where needed. Understand your market and competitors. If you can corner your market and provide something different to or better than your competitors, you are already one step ahead. Innovate and adapt.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

They use critical thinking, data analysis, and creativity to come up with the best solutions. By emphasizing problem-solving skills in the performance evaluation process, employers can create a culture of innovation and growth. Consistently comes up with innovative solutions to problems.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 28, 2019

Don’t embrace the practices of your peers, but rather innovate around them and improve upon them to unlock hidden value and create advantage in the market. There is always room for new thinking and innovation, or at least there should be. Put simply; don’t copy – create.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Brand Surgery – excerpts from my Marketing Magazine article. by John • February 5, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. The blemish is the abdication of strategic attention by the organization’s most senior marketing executives to the enhancement of brand equity. About John.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Creativity/Inspiration. Stephanie Skryzowski of 100 Degrees Consulting provided How to add the RIGHT people to your team. Communication.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Through his book and his consulting, he helps innovative leaders disrupt mindsets and markets. In this interview, we discuss how the most innovative companies and leaders savor surprises to lead their organization forward. Through his book and his consulting, he helps innovative leaders disrupt mindsets and markets.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2017

The special ones, they see it as a chance to create advantage, to deliver value and to innovate at scale. Innovation has always been synonymous with business survival and that hasn’t changed. What has changed is the pace and scale at which businesses must innovate to remain competitive in a digital world.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

by John • November 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. Market share was responding but not profit. Leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

by John • November 13, 2011 • Branding , Life , Marketing • 5 Comments. I’ve never thought of the homeless as innovative or entrepreneurial. They probably haven’t figured him for a good marketer. He’s making a living by following the 4 P’s of Marketing. It is a great example of creative ingenuity.

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