Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I saw a gap in the market—a demand for comprehensive, high-quality training that could empower individuals and drive progress in the industry. They brought fresh perspectives, diverse skills, and a renewed energy that propelled the company forward. But starting a business in such a volatile environment was no easy feat.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Strategic Planning and Decision-Making: Entrepreneurs benefit from coaches who guide them in developing strategic plans that account for market trends, competition, and industry dynamics. Defining goals gives entrepreneurs direction, allowing them to focus their energy on what truly matters.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

They are the bridge between departments, weaving the voice of the customer into every touchpoint and interaction, ultimately positioning the organization for market success. By designing personalized customer journeys and cultivating an inclusive workplace, the CXO becomes a driving force for innovation and sustainable success.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 6, 2022

Such a transition towards renewable energy not only promises to produce new kinds of work but also makes energy supplies more secure. There are obvious benefits from adopting renewable energy in terms of the reduced carbon footprint, but the paper also highlights the benefits in terms of security. Energy security.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook : Tactics for Disruptive Thinking by Jeremy Gutsche. Create the Future teaches you how to think disruptively, providing specific steps to create real innovation and change. But change is hard.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Creator: Innovators and Visionaries Creators are the pioneers of new ideas and visionary strategies– naturally inclined towards innovation, thinking outside the box, and envisioning future possibilities. Their leadership style is often characterized by: Creativity and Innovation: Generating groundbreaking ideas and solutions.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. This young continent, with a median age of around twenty, is an eager adopter and innovator in all things digital and mobile.” Africa is the next growth market. And technology?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Let’s say your team is discussing a marketing opportunity with some newly available funds. But it happens all the time and teams waste too much valuable time and energy talking past one another. But of course, they don’t, and so people talk past one another and frustration reigns.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. The only thing that spinning a bunch of plates insures is that you expend lots of energy in an attempt to forestall the inevitable. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 1, 2012

In my blog of last week, entitled A Monster of an Idea , I gave kudos to the Monster Beverage Corporation for becoming a ridiculously -profitable, high-growth $2 billion dollar enterprise despite ignoring the Holy Grail of marketing commandments. A market did not exist for his brainchild; Mateschitz believed he could create one.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2012

And although I am no longer engaged in commercial business, I am once again “thinking business” and enjoying the rush of discovering the ideas and innovations of today’s entrepreneurs. But don’t over look the fact that Apple’s culture is innovative, competitive, focused, passionate and collaborative. Mine was marketing.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2024

This trend highlights the shift towards shorter CEO tenures in large corporations, as companies seek leaders who can quickly adapt to changing market dynamics and drive growth. CEOs tend to be most effective in their first few years, bringing new ideas, energy, and strategic direction to the organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Culture Rules makes the case for why leaders should invest their time and energy on building culture and gives them three simple, actionable rules they must play by if they want to stay in the game and win! Most important, this book is not just another compilation of case studies. The result: mixed signals.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 8, 2011

He is the author of The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks. His view is the increasing communication is changing the way innovation happens. Trends change the way innovation happens. I see increased energy costs so anything physical that needs shipping will be more expensive.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Realizing the path to innovation would require revolutionary new thinking; all three leaders grasped that it would also take a new way of coalescing and harnessing talent. Reading Collective Genius , The Innovators , Creativity, Inc. Sourcing Innovation Collaboratively. Larry Page at Google also did it.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The environmental impact of cryptomining has been well documented over the years, with the energy consumption of the activity likened to that of a small country. New research from Berkeley Haas explores what impact this has on the local energy markets of the places where miners carry out their activities.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

By Tim Kippley: Jeff Bezos, one of the planet’s greatest innovators, once said that: “You need a culture that high-fives small and innovative ideas and senior executives [that] encourage ideas.” ” The Value of Innovation at Geneca. I have long felt that companies can’t survive without innovating.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

More than just “going green”—this position strategically positions the company to thrive in a market where sustainability is a competitive edge. The CSO shapes business strategies that balance economic growth with ecological and social impact, turning sustainability into a powerful lever for innovation and brand strength.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager. That is the question that many a business is forced to ask at some point during their life cycle. The fact is that business is not a static endeavor.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Notice energy, speed of speech and movements, tone of voice, and other nonverbal cues such as eye contact, body posture, facial expression. The energy in the room is palpable; it even feels hot. Johnson shares this insightful S-curve derived from research on innovation. The market is saturated, and so are you.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

There is no one solution that fits everyone, but prioritizing your own well-being is paramount if you are to have the energy to inspire and motivate others. One of the great things to come out of this pandemic is the high level of innovation that we have seen. Restaurants have moved into the takeaway market. Solution Focused.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

MFG of South Dakota is a subsidiary of the Molded Fiber Glass Companies (MFG), a leader in the field of reinforced plastics and composites, serving diverse markets with a variety of composite material systems and processes. Certainly, firms looking to profit from sustainable energy initiatives are in business to make a profit.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The invasion of Ukraine has sent energy prices, and indeed inflation, soaring across most of the world, bringing with it an inevitable squeeze in the cost of living for a great many Europeans. If, for instance, an airline company intentionally avoids buying Russian oil, they should make sure to use it in their marketing activities.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 17, 2023

Recent research from the University of Oxford argued that decarbonizing the global economy would provide a $12 trillion boost by 2050 due to the improving efficiencies of renewable sources of energy. Spurring renewable innovation. Instead, it is participation in initiatives like Mission Innovation , which has done.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

It’s human nature to take what’s working for granted and to concentrate your time and energy on fixing what’s broken. Sales are significantly up in your market month over month. A few conversation starters: This project exceeded our customer’s expectations.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That mindset is “about the application of creative thinking and prudent risk-taking to build innovative, long-lasting organizations in any sector of the economy.” Of course, an entrepreneurial leader needs to know about subjects like financial management, competitive strategy, market analysis, and the like.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg is how Google created its innovative and productive culture. Offices should be designed to maximize energy and interactions , not for isolation and status. Second, they have to have an idea for a solution that is radically different from anything currently in the market.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At an organizational level have you focused so much on process improvements and incremental gains that you’ve failed to recognize opportunity and innovate? A mouse running on a mousewheel can perfect their stride and reduce the amount of energy it takes to get "moving." Are you efficient or effective, or do you know?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2025

With a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales, powerful leaders understand that true competitive advantage doesn't come from innovation alone but belongs to companies that use their sales organization to add and create value. I nspiration : Demonstrate passion and energy. Thats your first step.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Positive Attitude : To the one, the best leaders I’ve ever known all smile, listen, engage, have a positive outlook, and have a high energy level. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Would love to teach my staff this lesson with your permission. I would like to add one. I Think Not.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 1, 2013

We run into constraints around people, the market, the interests of stakeholders, and more. It’s enough to pull all the energy and excitement right out of us. But less time builds a sense of urgency that can heighten our focus, and that focus can keep us churning out innovative ideas.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For instance, a study from KU Leuven University and the European Central Bank found that large companies do understandably innovate more often and more successfully than SMEs. In relative terms, this may be a small number, but when set against the 20 million or so SMEs operating across Europe, it’s a vast number of innovative firms.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2024

The transition towards renewable energy sources has become a global imperative. Renewable energy systems, such as solar, wind, and hydropower, are at the forefront of this movement. The financial predictability offered by renewable energy translates into a lower risk for investors and more stable long-term investments.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 10, 2023

The greatest innovations reshape our worldview about what is possible. In just the past few years, entire industries have been created or disrupted by major advances in energy storage, blockchain, AI, and telemedicine. Copyright The CEOWORLD magazine Limited 2021. All rights reserved.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Then there are the business developers forever in pursuit of new products and new markets. I listened to an IT manager explaining on a speakerphone to a colleague he served in the marketing function why it was going to take two days to get a requested report. They cultivate, grow, innovate and invest.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 20, 2023

Lack of innovation : When a leader believes it is their job to do all the thinking when it comes to innovation, they cause stagnation. Additionally, their actions of being stuck in the nitty-gritty result in the company lacking in innovation. Stagnation in leadership is real and costly.

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