N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Our responsibility is to respect the ethic. It is not uncommon to see both vision and mission statements change over time to reflect differences in market conditions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Organizational purpose, vision, quality of life, ethics, long-term growth. You have and regularly update-benchmark a strategy for the future, shared company Vision, ethics, Big Picture thinking and “walk the talk.” Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. In short, never stop!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

To prove my point, here’s a portion of the question and answer interview I did: Jeffrey, everyone needs to increase sales, especially during this economic crisis. How is the role of the salesperson changing, and what’s changing in terms of which sales channels are being used right now? How about sales channels? as ways of selling.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

While the rules may be shifting, the long-term sustainable advantage gained by building a strong brand – a brand that builds stability, trust, loyalty, and drives a premium price – remains consistent. StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K.

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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. Even the term change, a concept once reserved for the innovative and revolutionary, has been hi-jacked by the politically correct. How sad is this?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

How does the concept help business people make critical trade-offs between short and long term or between competing, legitimate concerns of stakeholders — employees, suppliers, customers and shareowners? In other words, we must turn our attention back to the real market and away from the expectations market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2018

Over the last decade, industries, academics, and the public sector have turned their focus toward culture and ethics in response to the financial crisis as well as misconduct at a broad range of corporations. Market Failures and Misconduct Risk. naqiewei/Getty Images. Why do regulators and supervisors need to get involved?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

Over the long term, truth will out, and it well may destroy not only your reputation but all the good you hoped to do. There are major costs in the short term too. It becomes very difficult not to believe one's own overpromises, and that comprises your ability to make good decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Since the collapse of Enron, through the financial crisis, to the insider trading and LIBOR scandals, the question just keeps recurring: How did those institutions of higher learning, whose claim is to develop business leaders, influence the conduct of leaders who let so many people down? These critiques have brought about some change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The announcement made the board seem oblivious to the fact that these issues have been center stage since the beginning of the financial crisis and, in fact, are of signal importance to the whole financial services industry and, indeed, to all major corporations. Boards Ethics Leadership'

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

85% of the time, a formal program of crisis preparedness will help the organization to avert the crisis. 70% of corporate CEOs think that business is too much focused on the short-term. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

It's exciting stuff for marketing types, and it's an easy equation: big data equals big oil, equals big profits. Our experience with oil has been fraught; fortunes made have been balanced with dwindling resources, bloody mercenary conflicts, and a terrifying climate crisis. It is a dense condensate of our human experience.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 21, 2011

by John • March 21, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing • 1 Comment. Call it a hiccup or a long-term slump; every brand faces a crisis. Whether self-created or a swipe from the blind side, crisis recovery can be elusive. In just three years, our sales declined by 50% despite maintaining market share.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

First, good leaders can articulate the need for change because the organization is on the brink of failure- cost reductions, reputational crisis, shift in customers and so on and seek to manage those changes. Can you share specific examples of how these capabilities have measurably impacted market value?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

mid-term elections staring us right in the face, I thought it would be an interesting time to examine the difference between statesman and politician. I have long been an opponent to term limits, believing that "we the people" are smart enough to figure out who should serve. Now is the time for term limits.

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