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Test Your Core Competencies

CO2

I also like Hamel and Prahalad three-question test for helping clients determine if one of their capabilities is actually a core competency : Does the capability make a disproportionate contribution to the ultimate customer value, and/or does it allow the company to deliver value to customers in an appreciably more efficient way?

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What’s Your Leadership AQ?

Lead Change Blog

I’m sure you’ve heard of the terms Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ); but few people have heard of Adaptability Quotient (AQ), especially as it relates to leadership. Often this occurred as the companies failed to read the market and really, really understand what the customers desired.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

Key here is to figure out what are the core competencies of the organization — those that can’t be let go without it ceasing to be a viable enterprise. Sometimes, however, an organization discover a core competence after it has outsourced it. They venture jointly, the implication being that the relationship is temporary.

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From Inside-out to Outside-in: the Leadership Mindset in the Age of Climate Emergency

Great Leadership By Dan

It is fundamentally different from the traditional inside-out thinking, which looks at the world from the company perspective and assesses what occurs beyond the traditional business boundaries and markets with a risk perspective. Connecting such external challenges with internal core competencies may not be obvious or evident.

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6 New Rules for the Digital Age

Leading Blog

“The old adage ‘stick to your knitting,’ for example, a colloquial version of ‘build on your core competence,’ tends to narrow a company’s imagination. Digital companies like Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Alibaba, have certain elements—or approaches—in common: • They imagine a 100x market space that doesn’t yet exist.

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Coaching Versus Consulting: Which Is Right for Your Organization?

N2Growth Blog

Identifying Organizational Needs: Assessing Challenges and Goals Assessing the challenges and goals of an organization is a critical first step in providing effective leadership advisory and executive coaching solutions. Assessing the leadership team’s and employees’ readiness to embrace new ideas and behaviors is vital.

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How to Use Porter’s 5 Forces to Assess Your Market

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Identify your organization’s major threats and opportunities by assessing these five aspects of your market. As you begin your strategic planning process, it’s important to assess the market you’re competing in. How are they distributed by market share? How do they behave?

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