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Leadership and Competition

N2Growth Blog

I’m always on the lookout for new practitioners entering the market where we have practice areas, disruptive technology, or changes in the landscape that could disintermediate certain aspects of the market. 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. A smart friend Frank Ciccia and I were talking about patterns we are noticing within workplaces and employee wellness. I am generally hesitant to make predication or play the future of work angle.

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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.

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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. Instead, they appeal to and connect with their clients through emotion, brand story-telling, and thought-leadership. ” In the same way, great salespeople don’t try to sell items or programs.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. The cycle time for new technology has compressed and will continue to do so. Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis?

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What Salespeople Need to Know About the New B2B Landscape

Harvard Business Review

Specious talk about disintermediation of salespeople obscures the real issues facing firms. Despite huge advances in technology over the past two decades, most sales models and performance practices are the ad-hoc accumulation of years of reactive decisions, often by different managers pursuing different goals.

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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. . What leadership challenges do you foresee in the years ahead that future leaders should prepare for?