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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did. Competitive technology innovations that could adversely impact your business.

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Future of work and prognostications following the covid19 pandemic

Mike Cardus

We are all talking about the Future of Work and what workplaces, leadership, and how we work will look like in the future. “Belief in social-atomism develops linear causality. A smart friend Frank Ciccia and I were talking about patterns we are noticing within workplaces and employee wellness. ‘ – Dave Snowden.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Why didn’t IBM see Dell coming? How did Microsoft not keep Google at bay?

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The Best Salespeople Do What the Best Brands Do

Harvard Business Review

Digital commerce and disintermediation have caused many customers to question the importance of having a sales relationship at all. So they help their companies with product development, marketing strategy, and customer service by serving as the Voice of the Customer internally. Great brands avoid selling products.

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The Solution to the Skills Gap Could Already Be Inside Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? The challenge is obvious: the quickening pace of technological change has shrunk the shelf life of skills acquired by today’s university graduates to just a few years. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. An edited version of our conversation follows. Insight Center.

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

Experience: Buyers use a solution, increasingly in pilots or proof of concepts, and develop perceptions about its value based on that usage. Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. Buying is a continuous and dynamic process.

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5 Characteristics of Digital Giants that Enable Domination

Skip Prichard

and has studied emerging business and technology trends. Own and disintermediate the customer relationship. This disintermediation of the customer account control is a hallmark of digital giants. . This enables organizations to develop a competitive advantage. Leaders must take a dynamic approach to leadership.