N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

It is my experience that they either lack the personal skill sets, or haven’t built the right executive team to lead change, they just don’t recognize the need for change, or they just don’t care. So why is it that so many CEOs shirk their responsibility, stick their heads in the sand, and avoid making necessary changes?

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

The Tech Trends Report also found that the gaps in IT skills that used to exist within these core segments are starting to narrow as organizations are uncovering the skill sets needed to use these technologies to their full advantage. Reprinted with permission from Jeffrey H. Gitomer and Buy Gitomer. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Create a customer loyalty program. Customer loyalty programs can be a fantastic way to boost sales and increase profits. While it’s important to look for opportunities to acquire new customers, it’s equally if not more important, to nurture your existing customer base. Take your business global.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Is it true that many leaders are not keeping up with changes in the market, changes in technology, and changes in human capital needs? When they are not on top of market changes and technology updates, they are giving their people permission to do the same. The rest (including selling skills) can be taught. About the Author.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 12, 2017

They will see this as a time of technological revolution where science fiction met with science fact. A lot of the technologies themselves have been around, in some form or another for decades but through generations of refinement and repurposing, we are now witnesses to the emergence of technologies that will change the world.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2016

What set of skills should companies invest in? However, with technology, digitalization, and artificial intelligence accelerating changes to jobs, the relationships between performance and value become even more complex and yield potentially exponential opportunities for value creation. Insight Center. The Automation Age.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Our own empirical evidence echoes myriad studies in finding that effective coaching raises employee commitment and engagement, productivity, retention rates, customer loyalty, and subordinates’ perception of the strength of upper-level leadership. Nor is it a skill that is automatically acquired in the course of learning to manage.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

When confronted with disruptive technologies, many companies fail to align digital strategies with their core strategies. Today’s organizational strategies call for small, manageable units focused solely on specific technologies, end markets, or geographical areas. Drawing in new talent versus integrating a cohesive team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Intelligent technologies are increasingly delivering greater value for less money. Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people. They learn fast, work hard, and certainly complain less.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. But it has also led to a dramatic decline in our people skills. In the business world, focusing strictly on a digital experience will eliminate customer loyalty and emotional connection to a brand.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

For example, at financial services company ING, an issue deemed “material” to their view of sustainability related to financing a variety of “sustainable transitions” in industries such clean technology, real estate and others. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

They are also responsible for 56% higher customer loyalty scores and correlated with 44% higher retention rates, leading to great gains in productivity over the long run. What networks, knowledge, responsibility, or skills can your company provide better than others?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2015

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Your success is theirs, whether the rewards are monetary or intangible.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. To hit P&L targets, for instance, the CMO at one technology company focused on shortening the sales cycle.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Regular meditation and all the skills it improves – focus, concentration, mindfulness, patience, stress resiliency, emotional intelligence, and more – has been a massive game changer for me. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. Meditating daily. Brian Dodd.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

These “things” include job-relevant behavior (what a person says or does that results in good or poor performance), motivation (how a person feels about a job, organization, or geographic location), and technical knowledge/skills (what a person knows/demonstrates regarding facts, technologies, a profession, procedures, a job, an organization, etc.).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 16, 2016

GE vice chairman Beth Comstock spoke to the issues of speed and continual customer input in a 2014 interview, when she said, “We work in these very complex, deep industrial technologies. You want to get as close to perfection in some of these technologies as possible, but the goal also has to be progress, not just perfection.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Your human resources aren’t trying to decipher what skills and behaviors will be needed in the future, or maintaining performance evaluation systems that are out of sync with your values. I recommend using the same principles to design and manage experiences for both employees and customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Here are a few examples of prediction problems in a business: Making personalized recommendations for customers. Forecasting long-term customer loyalty. The most common application of machine learning tools is to make predictions. Anticipating the future performance of employees. Rating the credit risk of loan applicants.

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