Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

I studied marketing at Northwestern. After graduation, when I was looking for a job, I approached the man who wrote the marketing bible, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. A book that readers of Advertising Age recently selected as “the best book they’ve ever read on marketing.” Life is like that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is the secret to ongoing success in every role whether you’re in leadership, accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, or any other type of professional service? 09:09 Why technical expertise alone won’t help you get ahead and have the career success that you want. Leadership and Selling Your Expertise.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. Be cautious of firms requesting upfront payments for job applications or selling additional services such as resume writing or career coaching. Your next career move is too significant to leave to chance.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

As a teacher, author , blogger and social media consultant, Angela has spent the past twenty-two years working diligently to help learners of all ages succeed by recognizing their power as readers, writers, and global communicators. Education changes lives. Lori Mixson, “the Last Angel” Twitter: @lastangel1970.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2020

Marketers want to change their customers’ minds and leaders want to change organizations. Embarking on a journey of self-reflection and discovery, he forged a path to revolutionize his leadership and transform his career trajectory. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2020. But change is hard.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

After a 20-year career at Marriott International working in operations, human resources, sales and marketing, Steve launched his own consulting company to help organizations improve their customer service operations. Steve Curtin is an expert on customer service management and leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Organizations can no longer guarantee work and careers, even if they want to. Jettisoned employees are finding that their hard won knowledge, skills and capabilities earned while being loyal are no longer valuable in the employment market place. Longevity was a sign of employer-employee relations; turnover was a sign of dysfunction.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have only raised my voice in the workplace twice during my career and both times I have regretted it tremendously. Resist the temptation to give way to emotional decisioning and you’ll see your career and company soar to new heights of success. It depends on the person of how He manage his self and His emotions.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

In all my years as a consultant, I haven’t either. Increasing shareholder value, company market share, or worker productivity just doesn’t jazz the average worker. What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How many times have you witnessed someone holding-out for a higher price, better valuation, evolving markets, technology advances, or any number of other circumstances that either never transpire, or by the time they do, the opportunistic advantage had disappeared? I always appreciate your kind words. pastortom2022 Great post Mike.

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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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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Regardless of where you are in your life and your career, I can promise you one thing; you will consistently be faced with challenges and obstacles along the way. My question is this: have you taken the time to do the necessary planning? You will face physical, mental, financial, relational, and resource challenges among others.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The difference between the two aforementioned examples is that great leaders have mastered the art of finding the right message regardless of the medium, market, or constituency being addressed. Sadly, the reality is messaging is so impactful that it will often times have a greater impact on your career than your performance.

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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. Why do some consultants get $50,000 a day for their time, while others have to give their time away?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The UC Berkley budget gap has grown to $150 million, & still the Chancellor is spending money that isn't there on $3,000,000 consultants. 3 million consultant fees would be far better spent on students & faculty. Have they been fudging their research for years? The victims of this folly are Faculty and Students. $

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

In the end, I would consult with your friends and family to determine whether or not the toxic work environment is bleeding into your personal life. Depending on your role and influence within the organization you may or may not be able to alter the circumstances in which case you have a tough choice to make – do you stay or do you go?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2020

Tom Crane, an experienced consultant, facilitator, and coach, works with leaders and their teams to build feedback-rich coaching cultures that create and sustain high-performance. One of the most effective ways to promote your upcoming launch is to make simple, effective asks to those that are closest to you.

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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. What I do vehemently dispute is the assertion that a particular nuance is reasonable justification for flawed business logic to prevail.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2011

Jim Quigley : I’ve been fascinated by leadership for a long time, and I’ve had the privilege to be in a leadership position for much of my career. Jim Quigley : One of the most difficult decisions the leadership team had to make was the decision to keep consulting as a service line at Deloitte when I was the CEO of the U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) . (I’ve

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

I’ve seen many an executive or consultant attempt to identify leaders with interviews, tests, evaluations, etc., By that I mean practice areas that serve no real purpose other than to generate a revenue stream for a coach or consultant, or justify headcount within a department. only to fail in miserable fashion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

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 loyalty cost us nothing, yet delivers great reward to a team. Your post are always eye-opening. I think loyalty is a great addition to the list.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Prior to founding Co-Creation Partners, he was a consultant with McKinsey and Company, most recently as a leader in their Organization Practice in North America. Before McKinsey, he worked in marketing for Pepsi Cola International and Procter & Gamble in Europe, the Middle East, and India.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

They don’t sit idly by and watch the business lose market share, suffer margin erosion, see their competitive value propositions vaporize, or watch their brand go into decline. Current or anticipated changes in market conditions that will adversely impact your business model. They make changes.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As executive search consultants, we focus on understanding and optimizing businesses’ intended transformations and how they are shaping strategic responses to industry-level changes. Especially implementation challenges of transformation affecting the organizational design. Therefore, it’s critical to hire an experienced CTO.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2017

Also a former executive, a mom , and a leadership writer and consultant, we’ve shared so many common challenges and values. A culture of fear may get results, but it won’t get the best from employees or a good reputation in the market. Taking your bad day out on the nearest body. How can I best support you?” The key is to do it.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

For those of you not familiar with Kevin, he is a two-time best selling author and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group , a learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

link] #30Thursday Post Number Nine (Yes it’s fine!) | Musings on Marketing and Other Morsels [.] link] mikemyatt Thanks for the kind words…You might be interested in the following posts as they deal specifically with the topics of social media and influence: [link]. and, [link].

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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