N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). In fact, many investors simply don’t carry much clout, or add very little value once the deal is closed.

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Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 321

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Likewise, just because someone has failed in a previous position doesn’t mean that they might not end-up being a top performer for your company. I also believe that if HR is solely charged with the recruiting efforts for senior management and executive level positions you’ll end-up with a very weak management and leadership team.

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Insurance Bottom-up CEO Compliance 353

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. I am thankful to carnival leader Dan McCarthy for allowing me to host this event - a wonderful collection of very practical insights on Leadership Development. Bruce Watt of Development Dimensions International presents “ Who Would Really Want to be a Leader? ”

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 185

Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Anticipating is 90% bottom-up and only 10% top-down. Information, insights, and marketing intelligence must bubble up, not cascade down.”. Acknowledging fears must come first, before collective genius can ‘bubble up,’ instead of information just cascading down.” Those over us control our resources. Degree #6: Lead.

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Leadership Crisis Bottom-up Storytelling 388

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Her Uncle John developed a face cream, and she began demonstrating it in high school. She would end up selling her $40 worth of Cosmetics.”. If you launch into the heart of the market, there’s always someone who will sell a similar product cheaper than you, and you have no way to go but down in what becomes a race to the bottom.

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Company Committee Sample Tactics 426

N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

They were the born leaders we all grew up with. Leaders who rest on their laurels without making the effort to develop their skills will eventually be overtaken by those who view leadership as a professional skill to be developed and refined. If those three qualities are present, everything else can be developed.

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Blog Brand Depreciation Consultative 413

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

While it would be lovely to believe that everyone is well matched to their role and no skill goes to waste, the reality is that the labor market is riddled with the poor allocation of skills. The post When Skills Are Mismatched In The Labor Market first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Skills Marketing Bottom-up Career 140

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Let me begin by stating that authentic thought leaders, the real deals, are not created via great marketing and PR alone. Their work is widely regarded as being innovative, disruptive, and market altering. They are not spin masters trying to make it, but are the undisputed market leaders that have already arrived.

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Disruptive Innovation PR Brand Bottom-up 285

Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You know you’ll have to work smarter and harder every day to improve your bottom line. — and what you need to do externally — with customers, marketing campaigns, and so on. ” For example, your inventory has to change with the market, as do your pricing policies. You know your customers will demand more.

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Succession Bottom-up Marketing Operations 263

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 7, 2011

But when theories are marketed as fact, I begin to lose patience rather quickly. Just because an opinion is expressed boldly, and even when data can be developed to support the opinion, opinion doesn’t become fact – it’s still an opinion.

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Collins Leadership Styles Books Restructuring 371

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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Team Simon Leadership Leadership Styles 283

Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

He not only develops and publishes the bible on “Book Yourself Solid&# , in it, he links to a workbook which is a very powerful way for one to really LEARN his techniques. I am currently finishing up the book and I am frankly blown away with all the great ideas, tools, and practices he espouses. Pick this up today at Amazon.

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Books Licensing Bottom-up Ethics 247

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry. When was the last time you entered a new market?

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Business Model Blog Disruptive Innovation Brand 361

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

Bottom line…personal responsibility and accountability have always been the ultimate leadership “hot potato&# in that everyone wants to be in charge, but few are willing to take ownership of the never-ending obligations that go along with the privilege of leadership. What say you??? 2 Tweets Who’s In Charge?

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Bottom-up Blog Objective Brand 366

Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 31, 2015

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. What are the market forces at work – are they playing fair or are they slowly (and possibly illegally) undermining your position. Think holistically.

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CEO Development CIO Emotional Intelligence 150

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Leading executive search firms have recently developed a progressive process that far outstrips what was previously “industry standard.” We reach out to highly-qualified passive candidates who are not actively looking for positions and are not part of an application process and market our clients’ opportunities to them.

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Execution How To Process Marketing 396

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

One of my mentors once cautioned me about treating people as furniture saying that “individuals are not inantimate objects to simply be moved around and discarded, but that people require a constant investment of time and money to develop to their full potential.&# I Think Not. mikemyatt: RT thx @ArtieDavis @MarkOOakes @words4warrio.

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Blog Politics Mission Statement Brand 366

Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2019

Yet we allow unqualified managers to engage in hiring activities that not only may result in poor hiring decisions, and related costs, but also damage your reputation in the hiring, and wider, market place. If these are not defined, you cannot hire to them, and your people cannot develop toward them. Review your hiring process.

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Process Tips Short-term Reputation 325

N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

In today’s post I share my thoughts on how to develop a sound pricing strategy… While the topic of pricing is certainly not rocket science, it has indeed been a thorn in the side of business people since the dawn of commerce. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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Price Discount Brand Supply Chain 371

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Not recognizing, developing, and rewarding talent is the fastest way I know of to drive talent out of your organization and directly into the hands of your competition. You see tenure is not synonymous with loyalty, but rather is more often a measure of compliance and survival. .&# the company is not leveraging its true talent base.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’m a huge advocate of refining initiatives that allow any level of talent to be developed to the maximum potential. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. I’m just not a believer in attempting to label someone as a leader, and develop them as such when they are clearly not.

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Leadership Blog Consultative Brand 419

Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 24, 2011

The following five practices will guide you to become an effective product leader: Build relationships: Product managers depend on others in engineering, marketing, sales, etc. Develop trust: I’ve written a lot about trust lately. Become adept at leading product vision from the ground up. The opposite is also true.

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Productivity Products Leadership Bottom-up 198

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2021

Are you wondering how to most effectively use a B2B video marketing strategy to attract leads and sales for your company? Many companies today struggle to mix B2B video best practices into their B2B marketing strategy. For example, in this video , Mailchimp teaches how its customers can set up email campaigns. You’re not alone.

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B2B Video Marketing Marketing Strategy 144

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

The constructs of this video compose a visual I developed more than 20 years ago, and the interesting thing is that it’s applicationally as sound today as it was back in 1988. The noise attempting to lift one up above the other is simply more unneeded rhetoric.

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Tactics Short-term Strategic Planning CEO 305

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

We “flex” and show up differently depending on the situation, the people around us, and what is needed. At a corporate or team level we would describe those cultures with different language: Flexibility/Discretion : The organization focuses on its ability to change with circumstances or market forces and empower its workforce.

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal.

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Press Release PR Mentor Discount 239

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s also important to understand that a toxic culture cannot exist if toxic people are not allowed to take up residence. Bottom line - toxic individuals kill productivity, and if allowed to run unchecked can have a much broader and deeper impact on an organization than one might think.

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Environment Blog Due Diligence Brand 419

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Bottom line…Just because a business has a particular advantage doesn’t mean that it can disregard sound business logic. Thanks again for the comment Mark. I Think Not.

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Blog Brand CEO Depreciation 305

Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world of leadership is constantly evolving, and new trends and developments are shaping the future of leadership. This is partly due to the changing demographics of the workforce, as more baby boomers retire and fewer young people enter the labor market. Flexible Working : Flexible working is a growing trend in many industries.

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Trends Leadership Agility Diversity 217

Women on Business

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This gives you an instant marketing presence in front of potential clients. You should be running, not walking to find who they are and how you can team up and benefit from each other. Develop a bond with your new alliance partners. Develop a benefit package. Offer professional development thru education and training.

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Strategy Mentor Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 226

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2022

The CEO might find it incongruous the drive for re-invention and accelerated growth bottom and top line with market realities. Large human resource, talent development, and acquisition departments perhaps made life easier for a candidate in their past life. Have they ever prepared a master plan primarily by themselves?

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Execution Company CEO Skills 397

Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2019

Plus, you will gain even further insights from them on how to leverage technology to gain to tap new markets, gain market share, and enhance the customer experience. I want leadership that values my opinion and is geared to my career development opportunities.”. Align Vision and Values. “I Value Two-Way Mentoring. “I

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How To Mentor Technology Learning-by-Doing 285

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Bottom line…Don’t manipulate for personal gain, rather facilitate for mutual benefit. Take a sincere interest in the success of others, work on your likability factor, become adept at gaining commitment, develop your authority and control, and have access to things of value or scarcity and your influence with others will increase.

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Influence Blog How To Brand 375

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

In fact, there are some very bright people who believe you cannot become a good leader without developing a mastery for using the word no as evidenced by the following quote from Tony Blair: “The art of leadership is saying no , not saying yes.” No is not all it’s cracked-up to be…Still don’t believe me?

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Blog Learning-by-Doing Bottom-up Brand 385

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Bottom line…If you’re a leader and not an avid reader, you’re wrong. Up until a few years ago Rick Warren read a book every single day. As an advisor to CEOs, there is little doubt that I’m passionate about personal and professional development, and there is one simple reason why – it works.

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Blog Open-book Library Learning-by-Doing 419

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

Lost Ancillary Revenue : On average, a single account is good for a 30 -40% cross-sell and up-sell revenue increase over time as new products, services, joint ventures etc. Over a 10 year period of time, assuming only 2 annual referrals, without any cross-sell or up-sell value being added-in, you just lost another $200,000 dollars.

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Blog Brand Cost Bottom-up 345

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2022

More than 40% of products are delayed in launching due to various setbacks like development issues, quality concerns, and supply. For this reason, CAD technology has come up to eliminate such hiccups and ensure the product is launched as planned. Remember, product development includes several stages. Faster Marketing Time.

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Productivity Products Development Software 102