Skip Prichard

JUNE 12, 2023

Lisser’s book is divided into three parts, each focusing on a crucial aspect of growth: the Planning Advantage, the Execution Advantage, and the Company Advantage. By combining these elements, businesses can align their operations with their long-term goals and set themselves up for enduring success.

Power 101

Power Goal Objective Planning 101

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. 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.

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Restructuring Blog CEO Brand 305

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

They are realizing if employees and managers are unhappy, they are going to leave. Happiness has created unparalleled customer loyalty to the extent 80% of their customers return to purchase again. 3) Manage your managers and make them lead by example. People don’t quit their company, they quit their managers.

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Newsletter Insurance Class Workshop 165

Steve Farber

JULY 24, 2017

It’s hard to beat tattoo loyalty. But the success of Anytime Fitness didn’t really take off until its leadership began managing certain tensions that all entrepreneurs face. At the same time, he knows that an over-dependence on a plan for the future can lead you to miss what’s happening in the here-and-now.

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Franchising Entrepreneur Bottom-up Strategic Planning 66

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 7, 2018

She was the model for executive assistants and office managers everywhere. Back characters on TV shows included restaurant and bar operators, where the stars went top relax. Therefore, our loyalty to the company rises, and we are more productive. Think as a manager, not as a worker. Be mentored by others.

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Rogers Henderson Mentor Learning-by-Doing 62

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. And they use it the way other companies use financial reports — to inform operational and investment decisions. In short, it is their primary management system.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty CEO Intellectual Capital 13

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become “management.” This requires planning, purpose and commitment. The management that takes steps to “fix themselves” rather than always projecting problems upon other people will have a successful organization.

Mentor 50

Mentor Learning-by-Doing Open-book Career 50

CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

And perhaps more importantly, anyone occupying a position of authority plays a followership role at times, as first-line supervisors report to mid-level managers, mid-level managers report to vice-presidents, vice-presidents report to CEOs, CEOs report to Boards of Directors, etc.

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Executive Coaching Execution Blog Self-aware 129

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Indeed, some advocates have argued that the time women with advanced degrees spend out of the workplace managing a family is valuable experience for managing back in the paid work world. I agree it is valuable experience — if the paid job one returns to involves managing a handful of people who are vulnerable and can't leave.

Career 8

Career Strategic Planning Bond Operations 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Despite studies showing that succession is an essential part of strategic planning, many companies ignore leadership development to focus on more immediate challenges. Or they rely on subjective metrics, such as likability, loyalty, whether someone is “due for promotion,” etc. For example, when a U.S.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Leadership Pipeline 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 8, 2019

Updating to new tech can be costly, but it could have a significant impact on your company by streamlining the operation, automating specific tasks, reducing errors and improving the quality of the end product or service. No company can succeed without a talented, passionate and motivated workforce powering the operation.

Strategy 50

Strategy Word of Mouth Marketing Loyalty Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Choosing the right statistics — metrics that will allow you to understand, track, and manage the cause-and-effect relationships that determine the value of your company — is a four-step process. Creating economic value is a logical governing objective for a company that operates in a free market system.

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Banking Metrics Objective Retail 15

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 5, 2012

No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Potlache is the ultimate catalyst toward Customer Focused Management. The practice of doing so creates an understanding that spawns better loyalty. Potlache is a higher level of understanding of the business that breeds loyalty and longer-term support.

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Loyalty Bottom-up Strategic Planning Bond 57

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2021

It comes with a variety of costs to conduct your operations overseas, from commercial space to travel, customs, shipping, and production. A great way of keeping your existing customers involved in your business expansion is by rewarding them for their loyalty.

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Brand Discount Marketing Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

After all, in the face of such apparently poor results, their managers probably assume that significant improvement is largely a question of effort. Faced with flat or declining growth, they face the seemingly obvious task of focusing strongly on improving the top line. Not necessarily.

Company 8

Company Analysis Short-term Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

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Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

Skilled managers have never been more critical to the success of firms than they are today. Not because employees can’t function without direction, but because managers play a vital role in talent management. In their place, the manager-employee dyad is the new building block of learning and development in firms.

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Development Management Performance Review Learning-by-Doing 18

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! Breaking down the verse into four key habits presents an effective strategic plan for any leader who wants to align with God’s plan for their life and career. This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Are you absolutely sure every employee in sales, production, operations, marketing, etc.,

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Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Insist upon a culture that allows people to constantly challenge the most fundamental beliefs, hypotheses, and assumptions that they have about your organization, the industry in which it does business, and the world in which it operates. The established “rules” under which you or your organization generally operates?

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Creativity Trends Uncertainty Strategic Planning 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Whether or not that outlook begins to uptick not only depends upon how agile, adaptable, creative and resourceful entrepreneurs can be in planning for, or reacting to, market conditions, revenue and brand-building opportunities and other key concerns, but also how well they maintain a forward-thinking mindset. Transparency. About the Author.

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Entrepreneur Loyalty Airlines Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

These are my considered opinions, having conducted Performance Reviews, Strategic Planning and Visioning for other companies over 35+ years. It was very ‘old school’ (a management style that was 40 years obsolete), though it pretended to be ‘new school.’ Communications. Accounting.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57