Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 22, 2014

government financial aid — provides an outstanding example of how to gain competitive advantage through organizational culture. A Connection Culture provides an enormous competitive advantage for organizations. The remarkable turnaround of Ford led by Alan Mulally — without U.S.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 10, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I talk with Meredith Elliott Powell, Author of Thrive– Turning Uncertainty to a Competitive Advantage. Important Conversations to Prepare for an Uncertain Future. Meredith offers practical approaches to help your team prepare for an uncertain future.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 7, 2021

“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competition advantage” – Jack Welch.

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Women on Business

JULY 11, 2018

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Susan Clarke and CrisMarie Campbell, authors of The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing Your Team’s Competitive Advantage , explain what it means to handle conflict head-on in order to spark innovation, increase trust, and build greater profit.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

Leadership Operations & Strategy Personal Branding Talent Management Brian Layer competitive advantage General Brian Layer Leadership and influence leading a large organization leading a team' If not, be prepared to have a few dead birds on your doorstep. Follow me on Twitter @brianlayer.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2021

12:18 – What is white space and why it is a competitive advantage for leaders who ensure it exists for themselves and their teams. It’s like oxygen for a fire – without that sort of time, the fire of your productivity and creativity will go out. 8:50 – Why mindless busyness is counterproductive and illogical.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2014

Don’t freak out, with a few careful moves you can leverage apanel interview to your competitive advantage. As if you weren’t already stressed enough about the interview, now you realize it’s 3 against one. There’s strength in numbers, and the numbers are on their side. First, relax.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Listen in as Mark shares proven tools to release the untapped potential in your people, create a strong competitive advantage, and win not just on game day but every day. Recently we’re feeling more polarized than ever. How did we get here and how do we address the polarization we’re experiencing?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2014

Put simply, company culture is the real competitive advantage great organizations trade on. READ FULL COLUMN ON FORBES. Companies That Get It Culture Leadership How to be a better leader Leadership and culture leadership and startups leadership in top companies leadership x factor'

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. As opposed to: Until recently, the greatest competitive advantage went to companies that controlled distribution channels, had hard assets on the largest scale, or had established brands or patents.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Do you want to retain your competitive advantage? Thriving in a VUCA world means acting quickly and decisively seizing your competitive advantage. That helps you to stop reacting to what is happening in the moment and become the agent of change. That relies heavily on your ability to lead your team successfully.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2014

Known for good service, the company’s leadership recognized that remarkable service was vital to their competitive advantage. We were meeting with the CEO of a successful chemical company. Price and product quality have, for this industry and many others, become mere table stakes. “We Author information Chip Bell Chip R.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Learn how the food industry has led the way and how the lessons shared here can help you create a sustainable impact in your field without sacrificing competitive advantage. This decision raised the bar for the industry and made leadership sustainability not just a goal but a competitive advantage. [19:43]

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Investing in innovative talent acquisition strategies is a necessity and a competitive advantage. The post Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent in a Competitive Market appeared first on N2Growth.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage : New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan. The old ways of creating competitive advantage for your business—such as building moats to ward off competitors—have become dangerous. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2021.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Significance of Executive Competency Evaluation Assessing executive competencies is imperative for organizations aiming to cultivate a high-caliber leadership team, essential for sustainable growth and competitive advantage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2022

Training great managers with a consistent system for delivering results is one of the fastest ways to gain a competitive advantage. Tune in and get the five fundamental skills all great managers and leaders master, from motivating people to developing self-awareness. The Manager’s Playbook with Joel Trammell and Alicia Thrasher.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When businesses source interim executives from a broader demographic pool, they gain fresh perspectives that can yield meaningful change and competitive advantage. Interim executives , by virtue of their varied experiences and networks, bring diverse perspectives to the table, influencing decision-making.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 7, 2022

Competition is rife in the business world, and companies are constantly looking for competitive advantages to stay ahead of their rivals. Dependable technology is undoubtedly one of the most significant sources of competitive advantage, so it is no […]. million small businesses in America.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Is your leadership a competitive advantage—or is it costing you? Take some time to listen in as they discuss how to develop the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and discover how to turn that leadership into a competitive advantage. How do you know?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

These rules create greater value with lower cost and even lower effort, helping to avoid unneeded turbulence to decision-makers who are responsible for navigating the organization through the rough waves of the deep blue oceans of competition. The real battle lies within, not on the outside with competitors.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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Leading Blog

MARCH 17, 2023

B UILDING a high-performance culture is like setting the rules of a game, says Mark Miller in Culture Rules: The Leader’s Guide to Creating the Ultimate Competitive Advantage. If you don’t “play” the organization will make up their own rules which can and will have unintended consequences.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Listen in as Steven and Mike share how supply chain complexities can be successfully overcome through better end-to-end-collaboration, and identify this as a largely untapped area for competitive advantage.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This alignment ensures that digital investments drive growth and enhance competitive advantage. Beyond understanding digital tools, a CDO must be able to align digital initiatives with overarching business objectives. Leadership capabilities are paramount, as the CDO must inspire and guide teams through transformative changes.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For example, implementing a digital literacy initiative can accelerate a company’s adoption of new technologies, leading to increased efficiency and competitive advantage. Securing Competitive Advantage In a world of constant change, learning and adapting is a decisive competitive advantage.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Strategic talent management is the ultimate competitive advantage for today’s businesses. Managing talent is a dynamic and ongoing process that is often executed poorly or overlooked completely. Good business is about knowing your people as well as your know your numbers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

In early August I traveled to Seattle to attend a portion of Costco’s Annual Managers Meeting where I gave a keynote speech based on my book Connection Culture: The Competitive Advantage of Shared Identity, Empathy and Understanding at Work. (In Vision + Value + Voice = Connection). Costco’s Connection Culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 15, 2024

Your ability to help your organization and teams make effective decisions is a competitive advantage and rare leadership skill. Three questions will help energize and clarify your decision making process. When Decision Making Meetings Go Wrong You’ve been there before.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 5, 2021

The tensions of returning to the office and figuring out the most effective permanent post-pandemic work arrangements are the topic of my newest book, Returning to the Office and Leading Hybrid and Remote Teams: A Manual on Benchmarking to Best Practices for Competitive Advantage. Why Are So Many Leaders Wary of Remote Work?

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

By embracing diversity in succession planning, organizations can create an inclusive environment that values different experiences, cultures, and genders, ultimately enhancing their competitive advantage. Incorporating diversity is not just ethically right; it’s also important for business success.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared 3 areas of competitive advantage for you and your team. Sean writes: “ Ultimately, the greatest competitive advantage you can have is the QUALITY OF YOUR INTERNAL TEAM CULTURE. And CULTURE is a symptom of LEADERSHIP.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. It’s so tempting, once leaders get their marching orders to deliver profit targets, to dive right into the details of execution.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 25, 2013

Refusing to surrender, having the ability to make the tough decision, the needed sacrifice, and the focus to place fiduciary obligations above your self interest will allow your company to continue taking ground and will keep the competitive advantage on the side of your enterprise.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

Some business leaders eager to keep a competitive advantage often invest in new technologies without fully understanding how to harness their potential or fully considering how digital technologies will meet the company’s needs. But not every business knows how to convert that data into actionable insights.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

A joint report developed with the United Nations Global Compact found that 88 percent of investors see sustainability as a route to competitive advantage. With trust impacting so many aspects of a business, it is essential that leaders focus on how to build trust and embed a trust into the organizational culture.

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