N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Next Practice: Your General Counsel must have the aptitude to not only shape those discussions but also advise the Board on important issues the discussions raise such as public policy, ethics, and risk. This is a company in which operations have dwindled and a mass exodus of talent is occurring. Don’t follow the herd.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Differentiation holds the key to competitive success. One day a year, I worked in various jobs within our coffee roasting operation, side-by-side with union employees. Maybe they’ll work for you or for your CEO.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Today, its separate and highly successful online banking and broking operation Boursorama has attracted nearly half a million customers. New CEO Antony Jenkins has set out an ethical vision for the bank, assessing performance “not just on what we deliver but on how we deliver it.” Leaders hold the key. Leaders hold the key.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A long time ago, this ethic saved a near-bankrupt company that I had a part in restructuring. To rise from the ashes, our young management team made several tough sacrifices to transform a multi-product, multi-brand operation from generalist to specialist. Specialists beat generalists – always have, always will.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. The reward is longer-term competitive advantages. Whether you are a start-up or a Procter & Gamble, the ethic of focusing on what you do best and excelling at it is the culture and the identity that sustains an organization’s success.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

The purpose of using the SWOT tool is to uncover or reveal the organization's competitive advantages, and what opportunities (sales, profitability) to capitalize upon. It's typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2024

Recognizing diversity as a competitive advantage for innovation and customer service underscores the CDO’s critical role in creating a more inclusive environment that values individual differences and unique perspectives. The CDO’s influence extends beyond internal operations.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Intercultural competence can serve as both a critical performance management dimension for employees and a meaningful competitive advantage for the organization. Linda Fisher Thornton of LeadinginContext contributed 10 Trends Shaping the Future of Ethical Leadership. What we don’t always know is how to act on this understanding.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

If your company has passive and/or timid leadership you will face serious problems in sustaining your competitive advantage. I am always so refreshed by the centrality of ethics, doing the right thing, and people as capital – in your work! Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Advancing the model’ is just another way of saying improving or fortifying the company’s competitive advantage. Differentiation holds the key to competitive success. One day a year, I worked in various jobs within our coffee roasting operation, side-by-side with union employees. Maybe they’ll work for you or for your CEO.

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CEO Competitive Advantage Business Model Innovation 151

Six Disciplines

JULY 25, 2014

The purpose of using the SWOT tool is to uncover or reveal the organization''s competitive advantages, and what opportunities (sales, profitability) to capitalize upon. It''s typically based on a review of internal and external facts and assumptions about the organization and the marketplace in which it operates.

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SWOT Debt to Equity Ratio Analysis Supply Chain 99

Lead from Within

JULY 31, 2023

While some people live by the mantra “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” leaders can’t afford to have this mindset if they want to stay viable and competitive. Innovation is key, especially when operating environments are changing quickly. Do you want to retain your competitive advantage?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

of The People Equation offers this advice for an IDP: “I would recommend that leaders build in one action item that relates to learning an aspect related to the organization’s operations that is outside of the team member’s area of expertise. I share a bit of my journey in Leadership Development Made Easy.”.

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LDRLB

JUNE 12, 2013

Eric is the author of The Collaboration Economy: How to Meet Business, Social, and Environmental Needs and Gain Competitive Advantage.]. The ethical CEO’s company is more likely to operate with little to hide. [Editor''s Note: This is a guest post from Eric Lowitt. At best, an unethical CEO only saps employees’ energy.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Next Practice: Your General Counsel must have the aptitude to not only shape those discussions but also advise the Board on important issues the discussions raise such as public policy, ethics, and risk. This is a company in which operations have dwindled and a mass exodus of talent is occurring. Don’t follow the herd.

Reputation 150

Reputation Consultative Competitive Advantage Budgeting 150

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2014

Question : Can you teach ethics, or are we ‘hard wired’ and born with or without ethics? YES you can teach the principles and importance of ethics. YES , you can model the ethics you expect within your culture. Therefore, what’s ethical in China is not ethical in Rome and vice versa.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

” Those words are printed on the back cover of Five Frequencies: Leadership Signals that Turn Culture into Competitive Advantage. Five Frequencies prescribes more than 20 practical Signal Boosts for turning culture into competitive advantage. There’s nothing wrong with operating out of self-interest.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Monsanto , for example, enjoys the competitive advantage that emanates from a culture of clout. There might be elements that are worth emulating, but certainly not the ethic of dominance, because by their very nature, small and medium sized operations have no clout. That doesn’t meant they can’t be strategically powerful.

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Rather, it is using judgment at the right time and in the right place to seize the competitive edge. Competitive advantage, not information, is power. When I was a CMO and CEO, I operated with an entrepreneurial mindset that required taking decisions as early as possible. Entrepreneurial Mindset Power.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. What Is a “Preferred Provider”? These leaders never micro-manage.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

There is no doubt that strong culture translates into a powerful competitive advantage. In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. The culture required to drive a strategy of innovation is different from the culture required to develop efficiency or operational excellence.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. It is good business to recognize opportunities for practice development. Holds benchmarks for Continuous Quality Improvement.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Today we’ll take a break from Busting Your Corporate Idol for this timely guest post from Omer Soker, Founder of The Ethics Of Success. . These managers purport to self-interest, but they are harming everyone including the company itself by operating outside of shared values.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Growth, defined as increasing revenues each year (rather than improving the quality of company operations). Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Diagnose a competitively disadvantaging problem or an unrealized opportunity for competitive advantage. Prescribe a more competitively advantaged outcome.

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Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 63

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 71

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 7, 2014

It’s a mindset you have to operate from in order to become not just a good negotiator, but a great one. They can be modified if you simply propose an ethical, viable and mutually beneficial alternative solution. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Thinking something is non-negotiable.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 23, 2014

This is an operational view of trust and enables a host of actions that aren’t possible if one gets stuck in the traditional, moralistic view of trust. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. Recommended Resource – Reviving Work Ethic. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. We’re too worried about __ (some item in the news… the latest source of gossip). Interest rates are too high.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Validate your worth to the overall company operation. Become top management’s partner in efficiency of operations. Continuous quality improvement within your own operation. Values benefiting other aspects of the company operation: Quality improved on behalf of the overall organization. Cash outlays are always risks.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Ethics and integrity. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. These are the ingredients that make a legend: Significant business contributions. Mature confidence and informed judgment. Courage and leadership. High performance standards. Professional innovation. Public responsibility. Visionary abilities.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

As companies adjust comfort levels and acquire confidence in the arena of business development, there is a direct relationship to billings, client mix diversity, market share, competitive advantage, stock price and levels of business which enable other planned growth. This holds for corporate operating units and departments.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

My firm employs a little less than 100 people; we have no debt, we pay vendors on time, and have always operated a profitable business. The work ethic has shifted to people who can understand and appreciate hard work, a sensibility that is lost today on many of America’s emerging workforce. Public Relations Agencies, 5WPR.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. EVALUATE how StrategyDriven gives you a competitive advantage. A monthly recurring subscription of $9.95

Energy 55

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 55

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

And, the mission critical nature of credibility cannot be overstated, as it establishes a company or brand’s integrity, reliability, validity, soundness and a host of other image-including indicators of an entity’s moral and ethical code, and the standards by which it operates. Transparency Translates.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. In order to complete the chain, organizations must insist that suppliers, professional services counselors and vendors show demonstrated quality programs, as well as ethics statements. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Faster innovation.

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