N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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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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Strategy Driven

JUNE 1, 2018

Businesses operate at a pace such that they grab for help wherever it is available. Online marketing firms. Website consulting. Niche Experts and Consultants. Freelance consultants, per industry niche. Technology consulting firms. Conferences. It is lonely at the top. Internet solicitors and sellers.

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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. link] mikemyatt Hi Amie: Thanks for your comment.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Watch the full webinar here: CMI Singapore supports 25th SMEICC CMI Singapore is pleased to be a supporting the organisation of the 25th SMEICC business conference and expo, to be held at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre on 13–14 September 2022.

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Thin Difference

JUNE 29, 2019

How will you talk about it in marketing? Kevin Sealey, the education-first vice president of operations for EPOCH Student Living , explains how this benefits your business, not just you personally: “Do not ever stop learning and further developing your craft. How quickly can you integrate this into the new hire process? Guest Post.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

There is a constant emergence of many tools to facilitate functions like accounting, branding, marketing, etc. The other side offers raging competition as the internet opens up the market to international players through innovation and technology that is hard to keep up with. Keep yourself informed.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 2, 2019

For example, if you’re joining a marketing team for a video-game developer, it might be worth listening to the IGN podcast, or the Giant Bombcast, both are regularly in the top 100 podcasts of any indexed listing. Consultants. A little consultation goes a long way, it seems. Past Employment & Operational Results.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This was not a scheduled conference call, and I felt blind-sighted. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. I tried to set boundaries with that person. He would not respect perimeters. About the Author.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

In the UK, the world’s largest chartered institute for Human resource professionals are in the middle of their annual conference and exhibition. At this year’s #cipd12 event Cheese addressed the membership and other conference attendees for the first time. Wanting to engage with consultants and consulting firms more.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

However, years of experiences with corporate leaders made me come full circle and start integrating pop culture lingo into the conversations, consultations and planning processes. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Helping others. Finding one’s passion.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The churches I had previously worked with operated from the the philosophy this is church, and if people want it they will come. I look at incremental improvements as a necessary part of day-to-day operations, and a necessary component of keeping things current. I visited his church on numerous occasions.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He has recently aquired ownership of The Whiteboard Sessions (a conference designed for leaders & strategy). After confering with the elders and leaders in the town, she was told that it cost money to go to school. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here. but you’ll not find that here.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

It is usually technical or sales/marketing in nature. Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Trainers cannot reconstruct organizational structure, nor can other niche consultants. Don't pit one consultant against another, just to get free ideas.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones. Marketing mix. 6 Sigma Statistical tools to analyze Market data BCG matrix. Edwards Deming Institute conference.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In my book Reinventing You , I profiled a management consultant named Joanne Chang who reinvented herself into a successful career as a chef. In many ways, shifting to a new role inside your company can feel as dramatic a career change as moving from being a management consultant to being a chef.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Liz Alexander Bio: Dr. Liz Alexander establishes executives as thought leaders by exposing them to the seven-step process she developed from 25 years as a successful nonfiction author and book consultant. The first is that “thought leader” isn’t something you go around saying about yourself, it’s a term conferred on you by others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. These predictions directly inform the action to take with each individual, e.g., by marketing to those most likely to buy and auditing those most likely to commit fraud. Insight Center.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Matt Heller ( Performance Optimist Consulting ) ​ There are so many factors and characteristics that make up a great leader, but one that encompasses them all is balance. Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

for the first time in 2009 to become the world's top market for new vehicles. Most have barely tapped the surface of what they could achieve by operating overseas. Cost arbitrage isn't a strategy; it can't confer a competitive edge over the long haul. or European companies have the same degree of insight into offshore markets.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 2, 2019

To operate effectively in this climate, planning and investment is essential. That path is known as digital transformation, or the process of converting all or most of an organization’s operations to online or otherwise computerized mediums. In other words, we will live in a Rateocracy.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

The stock market demands this—and the systems, structures, and procedures (including the career path of your boss) support and reward it. There has been explosion in the past 10 years of conferences and popular and academic books, articles and blogs on the topic. Many companies are creating chief innovation officers. It’s not personal.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Fundamentally, though, digital transformation is the result of enterprises seeking to adapt to the storm of new technology affecting markets and customers. Digital transformation forces wholesale change to the foundations of an enterprise — from its operating model to its infrastructure, what it sells, and to whom and how.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

Groupon’s tiki bar “conference room” acts both as an escape from work and as a space that encourages innovation. Apply your company’s CRM or business intelligence systems to internal operations. This is exactly how voice-based marketing automation firm Ifbyphone found success. Find your feng shui.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Many new international competitors were taking away market share. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. I’ve been a business leader and leadership consultant for most of my career. An engaging speaker, he conducts keynote presentations for corporations and conferences.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2019

Whether it’s conference calls or video conferencing, there’s a need for virtual connections. From lower overhead to happier employees and decreased operational costs, telecommuting can be enticing for employers. Digital Tools are the Essence of Remote Work. That collaboration requires you’re adept at handling technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

USC’s John Boudreau, CEO adviser Ram Charan, and consultants at Bain & Company , McKinsey, and Korn Ferry have made similar arguments. The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Think about it this way: if you were in charge of your company’s booth at a trade show or conference, you wouldn’t just slap your company’s logo onto a piece of poster board, place your business cards on the table, and hope for the best, would you? Marketing 101 principles still apply. Far from it, actually. Of course not.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 7, 2010

Always operate from the belief that you can always grow and get better as a leader and as a person. I've seen John in person at few of our conferences teaching leadership to us and I am really do admired the knowledge and wisdom he gained. Hope I can attend one of his conferences on leadership. Leaders are learners.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2015

By now, we have all heard a great deal about marketing to Millennials. population ; they’re a big part of many companies’ market base, and pretty soon they will be the part that counts most. The New Tools of Marketing. Where do they shop? The internet. What don’t they like? Being pitched to. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. She hired a consultant and a contractor, who found structural obstacles that were expensive to address.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs." Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2014

When Debby Carreau was promoted from the operations side of a multibillion-dollar hospitality company to a high-level HR position, her boss assigned her a mentor to help with the transition. One day, as Debby was conducting a sound check for a presentation at a major conference, Jeff walked in and requested a run-through. Her lesson?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). These keep the branches, limbs and twigs (divisions, consultants and vendors) on a growth curve. Another energy industry client operated coal mines. Finally comes Crisis Training. Body of Knowledge.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

It helped him both discover an interest in consulting and move into an advisory position two years later. One of my students, for example, looks for opportunities to speak at conferences on topics related to his experience. Make strategy your day job, no matter what your title is. Learn to delegate once and for all.

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