N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

As we rapidly approach Q4, it is my most sincere hope that you will take pause for a bit of reflective thinking – I would ask that you ponder the following question: “Am I so busy that I’ve lost the ability to be as productive as I need to be? Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Lack of Interaction : Along the lines of number one above, if executives, management, and staff don’t proactively seek your advice and input then you have a respect problem. Sad but true…real talent won’t be attracted to, or remain engaged with leaders who operate on fear-based tactics.

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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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N2Growth Blog

JULY 26, 2010

While arrogant people can and often do succeed in business, I believe that it comes at a great personal and professional cost. Arrogance rarely results in lasting relationships built on a foundation of loyalty and trust.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Then we have to deconstruct our abilities in each area, map a tactical plan to get better and measure our progress. In whatever role we choose to excel, we first must 'know' the inter-connected elements that define competency. Short of this, saying we need to be more disciplined is like shooting at a target in the fog.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

When you research online reputation management companies, you quickly learn that they offer a distinct service known in the industry as “suppression.” This tactic can be very effective, but it isn’t always the best solution, or the most economical. Remove it using the Covert Ops of reputation management.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

link] ATIG Dear Mike, "I've found that 90% of problems companies have on-line are created by management, not technology" David Segal Why not E-leader ( participative) for better decision making to do the right thing ? Can manager be leaders? Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2019

Public relations firms continually strive to restore consumer faith in businesses. And that’s extremely important to consider and manage. This might sound like a dark tactic, but it is often used in many industries. This is where it can be important to take a more subtle approach to shift the narrative back in your favor.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Most businesses use sales to get rid of poorly selling inventory or to create room for new inventory, but I think this a bad tactic. Use sales to introduce customers to your product. Sales have the ability to bring in a huge number of new customers and you should be harvesting this opportunity as a chance to introduce the customers to.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Those professionals that have self respect, and demonstrate a true respect for others regardless of their station in life, are much more likely to be successful over the long-term than those that use the tactics of disrespect to humiliate and intimidate.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve. Rather than assume all is wrong or right with an organization and take a defensive posture, management must view quality as essential to their economic survival or growth. It is not enough for management to endorse quality programs; they must actively participate.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 28, 2010

About the Author Kathryn Ullrich, author of Getting to the Top : Strategies for Career Success , heads Kathryn Ullrich Associates, a Silicon Valley executive search firm, and Alumni Career Services for UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. To read Kathryn’s complete biography, click here.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. To be blunt, the concept of equality in the workplace has only made team building more difficult as employees seem to have a sense of undeserved entitlement with regard to their roles and responsibilities.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Time management and “just in time” concepts are applied. Assets are adequately valued and managed. Top management has as a priority the need to develop and practice People development, skills and team building responsibilities.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 19, 2011

This is a dead end tactic. What are the Best Ways to Create, Manage, and Build a Brand? Many people come to me to make a drastic change in their careers. Their tendency has been to jump right back into the same type of career for security purposes only, even if they truly dislike this work. Are You in Career Quicksand?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The world is changing by a significant degree, and so is the public relations industry. Without proper Ethics, companies will start relying on underhanded tactics to get ahead of each other. Aggressive procurement tactics and spreading misinformation are just two of the many dangerous ways companies will try to get ahead.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Other PSAs were devised by public relations agencies and the non-profit organizations themselves. It was a consortium of advertising agencies who produced public service messages discouraging drug use. I performed a management study for my state comptroller’s office.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And if you’re a hiring manager, you may have found that the best way to shrink that pile of résumés on your desk is to weed out the seemingly ‘overqualified’ workers first. These same relationship-building skills can help hiring managers connect with the candidates who are the right fit for their companies. Here’s why.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

And, whether by means of Facebook, Twitter, streaming video, or by old-fashioned word of mouth, public relations, or personal sales skill, the goal is to win, right? So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Engage public relations professionals to publicize your involvement. Work closely with the show’s management. Most attendees go to the shows in response to invitations to visit specific exhibitors. Notify your trade media that you will participate.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

In other words, public relations matters. Salespeople will tell you that the basis of sales success is having a great product (which we have) and a strong relationship beachhead from which to pitch the product. When you are gone, will analytics be first in the hearts and minds of your CEO, your CMO and your board of directors?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

Rosanna Fisk, chief executive of the Public Relations Society of America, commented that Facebook's actions were "unethical and improper," adding that the affair had become a "PR nightmare.". And they should invest more in diplomacy than in blunt-force tactics. That's not just good ethics advice; it's good PR advice, too.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That said, the way to minimize the impact of discrimination is not through bureaucratic mandates or by playing the diversity card – these tactics increase the diversity gap and heighten resentment. The essence of managing cognitive bias is to realize that it is unavoidable, it is an essential part of being human."

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

You can argue that it boosts a company''s brand , manages risk , and just plain saves money. But perhaps most importantly the general public is clamoring for companies to enact good, fair business practices — and most of that public pressure comes through social media.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

In my experience leading and managing teams over two decades, I’ve found that job personalization — that is, fitting jobs to employees rather than fitting employees to jobs — is one of the best ways to maximize engagement. Make Helping Others a Core Responsibility for the Altruistic.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Few things are more damaging to a brand’s reputation than a hack in the headlines, and in the event of a public security incident, it’s highly likely that the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Security Officer (CSO) will be the first people the CEO looks to and says “What do we do now?”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

A broad, seemingly impossible systemic goal like this might seem like a social responsibility or public relations strategy — and of course it has those elements. Even tactical operational goals can be transformative. GM wanted 100 landfill-free (“zero waste”) manufacturing sites by 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Be willing to change your tactics, but not your core principles. Fear is dead as a management tool. Most overnight successes are 20 years in the making. Double your ratio of questions to statements. Don’t waste time trying to be successful, spend time being useful. The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

A common advertising tactic on the internet is to display a banner ad following a consumer’s product search. Unfortunately, our research suggests that managers may be spending dollars placing ads in ineffective contexts. One of our studies found that ads that attack a competitor will be most effective when placed within a drama.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Indeed, the only risk mitigation practice laggards rated more highly than leaders was to run “preemptive publicity campaigns to counteract negative reactions.” ” But while public relations can be effective, it can add to the reputational damage it endeavors to minimize without real action to back it up.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 7, 2016

Very few management problems are crises, but all crises are management problems. This is a powerful management approach. Manage the victim dimension This is what leaders and senior managers should be doing rather than hanging around and second-guessing the command center. Note the word “process.”

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

While it is sometimes necessary to “Shock and Awe” this tactic should be reserved as a last resort. Use great questions, humor, stories, analogies, relevant data, and where needed, bold statements to help connect and engender the confidence and trust that it takes for people to want to engage.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Once we release Gravity, we focus on finding our true value, mapping that to realistic market opportunities, create a flight plan (including waypoints to manage progress) and away we go! They didn’t want this book – they wanted a tactical book on sales and marketing. Once we challenge our beliefs and knowns –the sky is the limit.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

How do you put age aside and focus on what you have to learn from your manager? And what can you do to best support your boss—which is your job no matter your manager’s age? To encourage this kind of partnership, it’s your responsibility to manage up by maintaining an effective, productive working relationship.

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