Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2016

Bring products to market at the wrong time or introduce an idea without understanding timing and the “garden” can quickly resemble a piece of scorched earth. Leaders face “El Niños”: market downturns, a coup in Africa, airline strikes, terrorist attacks. Grow, grow. Sell, sell. You name it. Plant seeds and give space to the sowers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. He does this by sharing the eleven shifts he made over the course of his long and successful leadership career. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

The following commentary came from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft when he was asked about his philosophy on hiring: “I did all the hiring myself for a long time. You may have technology or a product that gives you an edge, but your people determine whether you develop the next winning technology or product.&#.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 30, 2013

The reality, though, is that these thoughts are only serving to fuel our fears about the current situation, thereby limiting our willingness or capacity to address it in an appropriate fashion. The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 22, 2018

However, without the power of a customer and client base behind you, you’ll agree that things will likely not last very long. This means that it’s important to know how to develop business-client communication. To develop this particularly well, it could be beneficial to peruse our advice: Respect. Accurate Marketing.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Baby steps work just as well as long as you keep to a reasonable timeframe. Whatever you consider the “monkey on your back,” just know that you’re better off in the long run by letting it go and taking some new risks…and don’t even think about looking back! When asked “how do you market your practice?”

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

Not long after, you took aim at the coffee bean itself, ruling out the seeds that didn’t quite fit your strict flavour and aroma standards. As Ogilvy’s Ian MacKellar, who helped develop the current creative platform, would say: “For any campaign or creative idea, it helps to have a conflict, a tension, an enemy.”

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Long story short; if a leader receives a vote of non-confidence from their subordinates…game over. Only those leaders who can quickly recognize and adapt their methods to the situation at hand will be successful over the long haul. Not Customer Focused : Leaders not attuned to the needs of the market will fail.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? Let’s look at this from another angle…Why would you want to do business in the same fashion as your competitors?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Rodger Dean Duncan: What role does mindset play in a person’s ability to fashion a meaning-filled life that will be gratefully remembered by others? While that’s understandable, if you wait too long to identify your destination, you’ll never really know if you’re heading off course. Do you want to become the best version of yourself?

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. In the years leading up to 2010, estate planners believed that an estate tax-free 2010 would never happen, but Congress never got its act together long enough to change the law. The brilliant writer, J.D.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

As team life spans continue to shrink in response to faster industry/market changes, how can leaders not only ensure team cohesion, but adapt to the changing team and personality dynamics that inevitably occur when old team members leave and new ones join?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In the same fashion that being the source of gossip is destructive, so is furthering the damage by ratcheting up the rhetoric by participating in gossip. If you want to be a long-term survivor in business I would suggest that you not participate in gossip and get rid of those that do.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

When you develop the skill to transform negative conflict into creative tension is when you will begin to earn and hold the respect of even those individuals who don’t agree with your positions. I have always found that rapport is quickly developed when you listen, care, and attempt to help people succeed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 29, 2016

How do organizations achieve longevity, the kind of longevity that survives long past the founder or any particular leader or leadership team? It is fashionable today to have management committees, at various organizational levels, working as teams. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Let me explain.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. That will kill your company over the long term. Being continuously driven by the reward of the short term will suck the soul of the organization.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 28, 2011

A good present-day example of this type of leadership can be found in Virgin Group Ltd, a very successful corporation renowned for its presence in a wide variety of global markets. He has imbued the entire corporation with a service culture that is reaping record-shattering rewards in terms of corporate success.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. Should the traits mentioned above be more formally cultivated in leadership development programs? In fact, some of the toughest leaders I know are the most compassionate leaders. What do you think?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2021

You will need to take steps to know what is being said about your business in the long-term. This tool allows you to set specific search term alerts that will notify you when anything mentioning these terms comes up in searches. You could consider making use of tools like Google Alert.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” Our marketing team thus understood that trying to target a monolithic “ideal millennial” shopper exclusively would alienate a large portion of our loyal fans and inevitably miss the mark. Like many brands, Lilly Pulitzer wanted to better understand millennial shoppers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In many ways, app developers, like popular consumer brands in a supermarket, are locked in a fight for two scarce resources: consumer attention and shelf space. It’s why brands invest heavily in marketing, pricing strategies, and store positioning to raise awareness, encourage engagement, and drive sales.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

The quote comes from author, tech thinker, and now public-TV personality Steven Johnson: “The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” he told David Carr of The New York Times in January 2010. billion in less than a year.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. The data captured a 20-year period, from 1995 to 2014.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. of course). I met the band at this inflection point.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. The debate is far from settled and will likely go on for a long time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Much has been made in recent years about the pernicious influence of short-term investors on corporate performance. I believe these arguments often miss a nuance: It is not the short-term investor but short-term management that is the problem. Indirectly though, these short-term traders can destroy value.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

multinationals, it now invests far more heavily in the growth markets of the BRICS. The Chinese government's latest five-year plan emphasizes the need for long-term investment in research and development, to shift China from being "factory to the world" to being an innovation-driven, knowledge and service economy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

They avoid getting trapped on a growth treadmill, chasing multiple market opportunities where they have no right to win. Instead, they are clear-minded about what they do best, developing a solid value proposition and building distinctive capabilities that will last for the long term. What is our chosen value proposition?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. We call it slow innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” Make the terms and conditions impossible to understand!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Using probability, it is easy to see that if you have a large enough population doing things in a mediocre way for a long enough time, you'll always get some streaks — think monkeys, typewriters, and Shakespeare. We looked at the length of streaks for all these mutual funds in terms of how many years they outperformed the S&P 500.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

This ideology, Fukuyama goes on: could not begin with a denunciation of capitalism as such, as if old-fashioned socialism were still a viable alternative. But nobody believes that about stock prices anymore, and so executives are back to balancing competing interests — this time short-term traders vs. long-term shareholders.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Buyers increasingly expect to check with their peers before they'll purchase from a company — using social media, peer communities, old fashioned live events and conferences, personal and professional networks, and other connective tools. Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Up to this point, China’s economic development has been focused on cost competitiveness and the adoption of foreign-developed technologies and innovations. It has to develop domestic consumer markets and orient its production towards them. Its global impact has been due mainly to its massive scale. Another trait of U.S.

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