Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

While the retail industry crisis has been well-reported, particularly with respect to dwindling foot traffic to brick-and-mortar stores. These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. Companies that do this effectively will most certainly amass market share.”.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 31, 2023

At CMI we've been digging into the content that’s been speaking most to the CMI community over the past six months – and there are definitely some themes that stand out: resilience, personal development and inclusion, in particular.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Toxic personalities will put a damper on morale, attempt to intimidate and/or manipulate co-workers for personal gain, and can even chase away a company’s best talent. link] Most Tweeted Articles by Leadership Development Experts [.] Here are "9 Signs That Your Next Company Cares About Its Employees."

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

If gossip pervades your organization and you are not aware of it, then you clearly don’t have the pulse of your organization, your public statements about the importance of culture and morale will seem disingenuous, and you’re likely guilty of being what I refer to as a disconnected leader. Put simply, good leaders don’t tolerate gossip.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. Household income and savings are ultra-low in most global markets. Create a team of leaders across the organization to develop the benefits framework while also keeping in mind the cost of labor. Spanish flu). Sales Compensation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. Development of technical abilities, specialties and expertise. Development of core business supplier relationships. Business development.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Furthermore, last time I checked a CEO can always be removed for lack of performance, or moral and ethical indiscretions, so what purpose do CEO term limits serve other than to disincentivize the CEO? Why would you ever want the person in charge of corporate leadership, vision and strategy to be a lame duck right from the get go?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share two a few tips on deciding which tasks, and to whom, the art of delegation should apply… As a CEO it is critical to develop a keen understanding of your value to the enterprise, and to further develop an awareness of activities that are dilutive to said value.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. The moral of this story is that while sophistication and complexity often go hand-in-hand, they don’t have to be synonymous. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 14, 2010

Values based hiring increases performance, enhances collaboration, reduces turnover, increases morale, and creates a stable culture. In addition to testing, developing a solid set of interviewing questions to sniff out any character flaws is also a good idea. that can be administered as part of the hiring process.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail. The moral of this story is leaders need to be honest, have a demonstrated track record of success, be excellent communicators, place an emphasis on serving those they lead, be fluid in approach, have laser focus, and a bias toward action.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Don’t get caught up in attempting to develop something catchy to be encapsulated within a piece of framed artwork that hangs in your reception area yet never put into practice. It is not uncommon to see both vision and mission statements change over time to reflect differences in market conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Called Agile, the process put customers at the center of product development, encouraged rapid prototyping, and dramatically increased corporate speed and agility. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images. Run more experiments.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” Great leaders help people get to a yes - in other words, they teach them how not to receive a no.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fear based motivations don’t instill loyalty, create trust, build morale, inspire creativity, attract talent, or drive innovation. Lack of Feedback : If as a leader you don’t subject yourself to a 360 review process, then you are not earnestly looking for personal growth and development opportunities.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. " used to be ingrained into the moral fabric of our society. How sad is this? Their responsibility is to be correct; not politically correct.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

By the way, employee performance and morale at Wal-Mart is near all time lows… Diversity mandates just don’t work… Talent begets talent and blending occurs naturally when good decisions are made for the right reasons. And as you messaged via Twitter “The problem with #leadership is that many leaders fail to lead.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2012

While lectures and training seem to have little effect on people, Ariely notes, "reminders of morality… at the point where people are making a decision” can have a major impact. The Elusive Emerging Market Consumer (McKinsey Quarterly). The Eurozone Crisis For Dummies (Business Insider). Do with this as you will.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2011

So far, the Andhra Pradesh (AP) microfinance crisis has largely been viewed as a local issue, with relatively little impact beyond AP or India's borders. A large exposure to AP with its abysmal repayment rates is an existential crisis for MFIs in India. Losses in AP will overwhelm many institutions' equity cushion.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2018

You believe they are trust worthy because you’ve developed this feeling over time. Swift trust was first identified in flight teams and law enforcement teams who were brought together in crisis situations and expected to be working together for a limited amount of time. So how do you trust a co-worker you barely see in person?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Business development. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. Our strategy to address the crisis was three-fold. Thinking Through the Strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

Most people try to recall memories chronologically when they’re developing a story for a talk, but there’s another way to conjure up deeper, dormant stories. You can use categories to sort by situation, theme, mood, or moral. Learn what market pressure may be on the minds of your audience.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

If economic forces were left to themselves, economic forces would victimize the peripheral nations, while the developed nations at the "center" would gain all the benefits of trade and development. Related to its foreign exchange crisis of 2001, Argentina had borrowed substantially from the IMF and other international lenders.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Just as we gain wisdom from the business failures and corporate scandals, we can learn equally valuable lessons from crisis situations that were successfully handled. Business development. It’s not enough just to handle a crisis effectively. The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Following business school, del Ser founded a social venture, FrogTek , which develops mobile software applications to help small business owners at the bottom of the pyramid run their businesses more efficiently. Workers With Disabilities Solved This Company's Talent Crisis. To Change the World, Fear Means Go.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Business development. Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Running the business. The Big Picture.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Know what you want and focus your efforts to that end : You must develop a clear picture of what it is that you want to accomplish, and then apply laser-like focus in the pursuit of your goals. That humility boosts employee engagement and morale. Its easy to ask for help when you first make a decision and develop it as a habit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2017

But when managers favor one employee over another, morale and productivity suffer. “You’re not giving others the opportunity to grow and develop strength and breadth.” Playing favorites also dents your own professional development. Including Natalie in the pitch gave her an opportunity to grow and develop.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Thanks David.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

The Spanish Prime Minister has become preoccupied with creating market confidence, as was the Irish Prime Minister in the run up to the EU/IMF bailout. Before the crisis, both countries had respectable debt profiles. Both governments have now injected billions into these ailing banks, to the detriment of their respective debt profiles.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If you struggle with recruiting, team building, and leadership development you likely have a bad attitude. Bert Ron Another great post Mike.Stonewall Jackson understood very well how “attitude reflects leadership&# and impacts the morale of subordinates. Great post.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

And this despite having working prototypes of devices that could have come to market as the iPhone or iPad – years before Apple invented them. Get senior teams out of the office to encounter one-on-one what is really going on in their markets and with their customers. Eliminate bureaucracy. Rediscover the mission.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

The moral of my story continues to be that in order to be a great leader, you absolutely must be a great reader. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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