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6 New Rules for the Digital Age

Leading Blog

“The old adage ‘stick to your knitting,’ for example, a colloquial version of ‘build on your core competence,’ tends to narrow a company’s imagination. Digital companies like Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Alibaba, have certain elements—or approaches—in common: • They imagine a 100x market space that doesn’t yet exist.

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Today’s Organizations Are Outward Bound

Leading Blog

When a company diversified, it bought companies in other businesses, or else developed new businesses internally, to sell additional products or services, as with Honda, which has exploited its expertise in motors to produce a variety of other vehicles — outboard motors, lawnmowers, ATVs, and so on.

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Disruptive Business Models | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

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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But My Business Is Different… | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

All business (for profit or not) provide goods, services, or intellectual property/capital to a market (or markets) for some form of consideration. Even the most savvy CEO may have blind spots in his or her skill sets, core competencies, or voids in the org chart which can also cause blind spots.

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6 Essential Skills for Future Leaders

Career Advancement

Plenty of core competencies will remain essential skills for leaders in the future. By developing the right mix of skills, you’ll have the confidence and assertiveness to thrive in a changing organizational environment. Only people have the skills to lead others. Specialized areas of expertise. Ingenuity.

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From the Rubble of Dreams: Resilience to Be Reborn

Lead Change Blog

Build on your strength and core competencies. She opened her own marketing and advertising business and more. Honor your network and continually develop it. I needed to know her secret sauce. Here are her lessons. Turn the page. There is always a new beginning. Check out the website at www.workingwardrobes.org.

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Why Strategy Withstands the Test of Time

In the CEO Afterlife

Most of these opportunities fall outside of the core competency of the company and/or the positioning of the brand. Business Models Change and So do Core Competencies. Many, like Wal-Mart and Target, sourced the competency from 3 rd parties. Hence, their quest to seek every opportunity to boost sales and profit.

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