N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Here are tips on how to hire a team with leadership in your startup. Since startup business usually has a lot of factors to take in such as having limited resources and even experiences, coming up with your leadership team may play a vital role in the success of your business. A number of startups fail to progress successfully.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe When People Don’t Know. Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe When People Don’t Know.

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Chart Your Course

JULY 29, 2013

Whether you need printed or digital resources, marketing or tax help, there are countless businesses and online service providers to help. Marketing, Marketing. Marketing is critical to connecting with current customers and reaching new ones. Set Up Shop. It has never been easier to set up a business. Public Speaking.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The market is saturated, and so are you. No more steep learning curves, no extreme challenges – just another day at the office. You may get bored or arrogant at the top of the curve. For people, it’s time to jump onto a new learning curve to stay fresh and engaged.

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Lead by Adventure

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

” It’s funny how similar thoughts come to you when you’re about to make a big decision that regards life, work, or leadership. Blog posts, emails, newsletters, affiliate programs, internet marketing, WordPress. Most of these are quite new experiences, and each requires a bit of a learning curve.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Changing jobs is an often used and effective way to develop new leadership capabilities. Introduction Execution of Great Moves is one of the key strategies to support our Leadership Excellence Strategy. Many executives have said that this is where they learned some of their most valuable lessons of leadership. “I

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HR Digest

JULY 28, 2021

Organizations are now facing a learning curve as managers scramble to lead their teams virtually. The need to reskill and enable individuals to learn marketable new skills during their lifetime will be a critical challenge – and for poorer nations, a sweeping challenge. This begs a pressing question: What do we do next?

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Current employees offer knowledge of company culture and goals–and can often jump the “new hire learning curve”. This helps employers track the effectiveness of recruitment marketing strategies, like print and other display content. Your loyal customers might become your best employees! Better Hiring with QR Codes.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

No matter how resistant we are to obstacles, learning curves or outright catastrophes, the landscape in which we work is constantly in motion. From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

We learn three times more from failure than from success. 7 Degrees of Failure… Plateaus in the Learning Curve. ” Beginning to learn better approaches by analyzing the wrong ways of doing things. The longer that success takes to attain has a direct relationship to how long we will hold onto it.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I write books and teach online courses helping other writers and creatives use online marketing to succeed. But there’s a really steep learning curve for any skill when you get started. Jeff Goins : I am a writer who helps other writers. That’s probably the simplest definition of what I do.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

market) risk obsolescence or irrelevance. It is vital to develop the capacity to learn from your environment. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. But how is this done?

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Benchmarking. Goal Inspiring.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Corporations have become extended families, thus embracing dysfunctionality, changes, modifications and learning curves. 7 Levels of Yesterdayism… Learning from the Past… Sources of Insights: Think They’ve Been There… Haven’t Yet Fully Learned from It. Benchmarking. Goal Inspiring.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

His podcast series, “ Irresistible Leadership ,” serves as a compelling platform for thought-provoking discussions on the critical role of culture and leadership during times of adversity. The HR Digest: Can you share key milestones in your career journey, and how they shaped your perspective on the global talent market?

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Current employees offer knowledge of company culture and goals–and can often jump the “new hire learning curve”. This helps employers track the effectiveness of recruitment marketing strategies, like print and other display content. Your loyal customers might become your best employees! Better Hiring with QR Codes.

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Learning Curve Audience Transportation Bottom-up 52

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights. Trait-centered Leadership vs. Servant Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success. They must close the gap between what was true about the market yesterday and what the new truth is today. Air Force where he learned to fly the F-15.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 6, 2012

Among the lessons which we learned from the Y2K Bug exercise were: When they want to do so, company leadership will provide sufficient resources to plan for the future, including crisis management and preparedness (of which computer glitches are one set of ‘what ifs.’). There always must exist a learning curve.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2012

Multicultural leadership involves deep immersion within different cultures to understand their values and specific context. For example, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) built a leading 40% share of the Chinese fast food market through patiently tailoring its product offering to local tastes and building a strong team of local managers.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Used in conjunction with HRM best practices, the following tips will result in a faster learning curve for a more productive and engaged workforce in the absence of a trained staff member. Cross-training employees is seen as a key vehicle for retaining talent and maximizing their effectiveness during unpredictable talent gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

One of the best ways to learn a new skill is to offer to take your expertise to another group or division in your firm. If you've honed your skills marketing consumer products and now your company is putting together a task force to re-brand your organization or expand services overseas, volunteer for the project.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

A senior director of marketing reports to an executive with broader responsibilities, who in turn reports to the global VP of marketing. The senior director needs to understand how her product line contributes to the overall marketing strategy, as well as the goals of her peer groups in this chain.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying "The best bosses revel in helping others succeed". Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.". posted at Get Your Leadership BIG On!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Much as I want to believe that a glaringly good idea will stand on its merits, I have come to realize that just like any product or service, ideas require good marketing if they’re going to reach their intended customers. Celine Schillinger sought to change the leadership landscape of Sanofi, a major pharmaceutical company.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Dan McCarthy posted a collection of top blog posts on leadership that included a post I wrote. Wally Bock presents The Joy of Helping posted at Three Star Leadership , saying “The best bosses revel in helping others succeed” Mark Stelzner presents Two Easy (And Legal) Ways to Gather Competitive Intel posted at Inflexion Point.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. But a long-term relationship can help you leapfrog the learning curve of the close collaboration, which can sometimes take years to develop. Diversity on your founding team will give you strength.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Weatherhead, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

However, only 11% described themselves as being either “mature” or “advanced” on the learning curve. So, what do you need to know to get up the learning curve? The acquisition communicated to the market that Thales was shifting its financial profile to the high-growth business.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

We include five categories of AI technology systems: robotics and autonomous vehicles, computer vision, language, virtual agents, and machine learning.). Our results suggest there’s still time to climb the learning curve and compete using AI. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. Whether you’re familiarizing yourself with new processes or new people, there will be a learning curve.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2015

Back in the early 1960s, the great Boston Consulting Group founder and strategy theorist Bruce Henderson asserted that there was only one way to successfully compete: gain a relative market share advantage over all competitors so as to have lower costs than all of them. But two-sided markets have actually been with us for centuries.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

There are many explanations for this abysmal failure rate, but a 10-year longitudinal study on executive leadership conducted by my firm showed one clear reason. A full 61% of executives told us they were not prepared for the strategic challenges they faced upon being appointed to senior leadership roles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2015

The company lost its leadership of the very industry that it had invented back in 1973. And it wasn’t alone – another audio leader, Sony, similarly lost market share in electronics because of its analog bias. The end result was that Motorola’s conversion to digital took much longer than it needed to.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. “The learning curve in any industry is steep, but it is particularly so in the airline industry. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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