N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the financial derivatives market collapse, Toyota concealing owner reports of sudden acceleration (resulting in a USA man sentenced to prison) and the BP Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill? link] Laurie Young Hi Mike, thanks for the explanation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 25, 2024

Thriving in the ever-shifting business landscape demands effective management and the deployment of innovative strategies. From the boardroom to the frontlines, businesses must continually adjust to changing market dynamics and evolving consumer preferences.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What’s more, with so many different personality styles on your team, finding leadership tactics that work across the board can be a challenge. Here are ten of the most proven tactics that have helped countless managers inspire their team to achieve greatness each and every day: Be a positive thinker. Grow your skills.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

If you really want to understand a leader’s perspective on the market, ask them about their competition. In the military we valued actionable intelligence, studied our enemy’s strengths and weaknesses, developed a battle plan around a solid strategy, and executed our tactical mission as if our lives depended on it - because they did.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Section IV: Tactics. Great leaders tend to be tactical geniuses and display a strong bias to action. Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

He wrote Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking (two books in one) to help us. “We Market leaders consistently miss out on great new ideas because they overestimate their market dominance.” This is a tension—between farmer and hunter—that must be managed. What to do? What to do?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. While some firms offer legitimate resume and career coaching services, these could be diversion tactics aimed at less experienced or desperate candidates.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 2, 2020

Marketing , is a must-read book for you to learn how to stand out from the crowd and attract, engage, and win more customers and clients. Using example proven strategies and tactics, checklists, tools and action steps, you’ll learn how to how to effectively use social media, blogs, video, online and offline marketing, your website and more.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 20, 2013

At the other end of the strategy conundrum are leaders and managers who don’t understand strategy. Too often they mistake tactics for strategy. Tactics are the ever-important short term decisions and activities that win battles and contribute to winning the war. That’s tactical decision-making. The opposite is true.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 6, 2024

Their crucial role in shaping business strategy is their ability to bridge the gap between tactical operations and strategic goals. They must constantly evaluate and re-evaluate business models, market trends, the competitive landscape, and organizational dynamics.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

From my perspective I’d advise clients to give a bit on valuation, or live with more rigid financial engineering to acquire influence (gain access to markets, knowledge, intelligence, connections or superior business savvy). In fact, many investors simply don’t carry much clout, or add very little value once the deal is closed.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The COO is often tasked with translating strategy into action, leading critical functions ranging from operations and finance to sales and marketing. This multifaceted role requires rapid decision-making and strong leadership capabilities, enabling the COO to manage day-to-day activities while enhancing operational efficiency effectively.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 12, 2024

Today, the CCO oversees various aspects of business operations, such as strategy development, customer relationship management, product development, and crisis management. The CCO offers strategic guidance to the marketing team, aligning its tactics with the organization’s overarching business objectives.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

Pricing impacts everything from strategy and tactics, to finance, to branding, to marketing and sales, to vendor selection and supply chain management, to recruiting and compensation, and to customer satisfaction and loyalty. Competition : Does your pricing place you at a competitive advantage, or disadvantage in the market?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Evolving Role of the CMO Previously, a Chief Marketing Officer’s or CMO role mainly involved traditional marketing activities like brand management, public relations, and market research. Yet, when carried out adeptly, it results in holistic and sustainable marketing strategies.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

As we rapidly approach Q4, it is my most sincere hope that you will take pause for a bit of reflective thinking – I would ask that you ponder the following question: “Am I so busy that I’ve lost the ability to be as productive as I need to be? Remember that most people who fail just quit a bit too early in the process.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2020

Marketing is an integral element for any business. With this importance in mind, here’s a quick guide on marketing your business in 2020. With this importance in mind, here’s a quick guide on marketing your business in 2020. Conduct market research. Which marketing methods convince them to purchase items?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In today’s competitive market where employees are expected to do more with less, the pressure of managing both your career and family is rising. Managing Work-Life Balance. Another good tactic is to praise your boss for certain behaviours you’d appreciate if he/ she did it more often. Approaching Your Boss.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leading change is really quite simple. If your entity doesn’t innovate and change in accordance with market driven needs and demands it will fail…it’s just that simple.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2012

With forty years in the saddle, hundreds of dusty trails and a few fistfights along the way, I have an oasis of management insight in which to draw. Even though I am far removed from the energy drink target market, I’m a little embarrassed to admit my ignorance of the category and what makes it tick. Monster has done just that.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post. I’ve rarely come across students of military history that don’t have a great command of both strategic thinking and tactical implementation.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 11, 2022

As a marketing manager, you have a lot of responsibilities on your plate. You are in charge of creating and executing marketing plans, overseeing campaigns, developing and managing budgets, and more. In this blog post, we will take an in-depth look at the many tasks that marketing managers are responsible for.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The new book The Innovator''s Method: Bringing the Lean Start-up into Your Organization, by Nathan Furr and Jeff Dyer, is a leader’s guide to validating new ideas, refining them, and bringing them to market. Engaging Leader™ Tactics' Jeff is Professor of Strategy at Brigham Young University and Wharton.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 4, 2012

It has been my observation that when deadlines are missed, or important initiatives don’t get off the ground, it is usually an issue of poor resource management. Overspending is a tactic for the lazy or the incompetent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 12, 2011

to market his services. Employees and managers alike become frustrated when expectations are not met. Managers should involve the employees in setting deadlines as well. Often, employees will offer a tighter deadline than the manager expected. to the mix. The problem often arises because of a breakdown in communication.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2024

Operating as a vital conduit between the various departments within an organization and its highest levels of management, their responsibilities include translating strategic goals into workable business plans and supervising the day-to-day operations to ensure efficiency and effectiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Resiliency is important to businesses because it’s the DNA that enables the company to better anticipate, prepare for, respond and adapt to ever increasing market disruptions, shifts in customer preferences and challenging competitor tactics that can knock a business off its hinges. Resilient people make resilient cultures.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As market dynamics evolve and consumer preferences shift, businesses are constantly searching for new strategies to increase their earnings. For those looking to elevate their revenue, here are six effective tactics. If market demand for that product decreases, the company’s revenue might plummet.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. Then develop your vision, objectives, strategies, goals, measures, action plan, and solicit feedback from your direct reports, wise council, cross-functional colleagues, and manager. Be cautious about change fatigue.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2010

While I might spend a bit of time evaluating the most efficient strategy for getting to the other side of said wall, it will ultimately be my focus on the tactical execution of conquering the challenge that will determine my success. A bias toward action is always a better path than falling prey to analysis paralysis.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

With the rise of the digital revolution, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) role has undergone significant changes. As the organization’s central source of customer-related data, they carry a crucial responsibility to uncover valuable insights and transform them into winning strategies for the market.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

Here are just a few ‘desperate’ digital marketing tactics that could end up annoying consumers, as well as a few tips on what you should do instead. Email marketing can be an effective way to convert customers. When trying to get noticed online, it’s easy to resort to desperate measures. Keyword stuffing. Email spamming.

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