Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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Tactics Strategic Planning Strategic Fit How To 104

N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

They have evolved into key strategists in the boardroom, steering the organization towards digital transformation, personalized customer experiences, and customer-centric strategies. These tools also assist in improving interactions and creating an ideal customer journey. Being responsive is essential to building customer confidence.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2023

One such vital aspect is the utilization of a Performance Marketing Management (PMM) agency. In this article, we will unveil these secrets and explore the strategies and tactics that can propel your partnership with a PMM agency to new heights. Embrace Evolving Technologies In the digital marketing realm, technology evolves rapidly.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Culture Is the Way : How Leaders at Every Level Build an Organization for Speed, Impact, and Excellence by Matt Mayberry Former NFL Pro, world-renowned keynote speaker, and management consultant Matt Mayberry delivers an incisive and hands-on blueprint to employee engagement and peak productivity. Sound familiar?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

The role of a COO is crucial in ensuring the overall success of any organization. The COO’s influence extends far beyond mere operational management. Their strategic input and tactical steering are indispensable in transforming a company’s vision into reality.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 7, 2024

There’s a special offer for organizations, too—if you purchase 50 or more copies, you can get a virtual live online program tailored for your team. And don’t forget, if your organization buys 50 or more copies, you receive a complimentary virtual live online program. Can we talk about that?”

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Therefore, adapt new strategies and tactics accordingly. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to adopt remote work policies. Therefore, it is likely that many organizations will adopt a hybrid approach where employees have the option to work from home part of the time. Flexible hours are becoming more popular.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Wait, What?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 13, 2024

These competencies include strategic foresight, decision-making capabilities, and the ability to manage, inspire, and empower teams. Through this process, leaders can ensure that their leadership styles are aligned with the organization’s objectives, resulting in accelerated business growth.

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Lead from Within

MAY 30, 2024

Manipulators are skilled at presenting their ideas in a way that makes them seem appealing, even when those ideas may not be in the best interest of the organization. Manipulators are skilled at presenting their ideas in a way that makes them seem appealing, even when those ideas may not be in the best interest of the organization.

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CO2

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Far from being mere administrative support, executive assistants are pivotal in driving the strategic agenda , managing critical relationships, and fostering an environment of efficiency and innovation. Executive assistants must possess a blend of tactical expertise and strategic thinking.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

The Value of Executive Coaching for Future Leaders Executive coaching holds an elevated position as an essential tool for molding future leaders. Such leaders must possess various competencies, including sound strategy formulation, emotional intelligence, strong decision-making abilities, and effective team management.

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HR Digest

MAY 17, 2024

Understanding the importance of change is the first step to understanding HR’s role in change management. Whether it’s adapting to new technologies, shifting customer demands, or regulatory updates, organizations must continually evolve to stay ahead. Image: Freepik HR’s Role in Change Management: What Is Change Management?

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. Middle manager." Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. But you're ambitious.

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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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COO Chief Operating Officer Efficiency Operations 375

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2024

One powerful tool that can help in this fight is STIX, which stands for Structured Threat Information eXpression. This guide will take you through the steps of implementing STIX in your organization. It allows different organizations to speak the same “language” when discussing cyber threats. What is STIX?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 20, 2021

Hiring capable candidates that are a good fit for your organization is just the first step of building a happy and motivated workforce. If you fail to take steps to ensure that your employees are content in your organization, you risk having demoralized and inefficient staff. Make the Workplace Somewhere People Enjoy Being.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 15, 2024

Waayyy back in the early days of my career, I was a young door-to-door sales rep and then sales manager with Culligan Water Conditioning. I took Dale Carnegie sales, public speaking, and management training courses and got turned on to personal and leadership development. That got me reflecting on decades of my journey in this field.

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Training Development 360-Degree Feedback Human Resources 116

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2024

Security tools like antivirus software, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and security information and event management (SIEM) systems are used to monitor networks for suspicious activities or known attack patterns. This involves considering different scenarios and pathways an attacker might take based on known tactics and techniques.

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Analysis Software Tools System 86

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. It presents a method for leveraging a set of tools emerging from lean start-up, design thinking, and agile software development.

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Uncertainty Organization Christensen Tactics 214

Next Level Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

One of the things I’ve seen a lot of leaders struggling with during this extended period of leading from home is how to stay on top of all the communications they have to do with different stakeholders – their team members, their managers, their peers, other colleagues and external partners.

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Retail Content Information Tips 245

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. As organizations become increasingly digital, CMOs are expected to spearhead digital marketing, AI, social media, and analytics initiatives.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2024

With the ever-evolving threat landscape, organizations need robust tools and frameworks to bolster their defense mechanisms. One such tool gaining traction is the Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX), a cybersecurity language designed to improve information sharing and collaboration among security teams.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specifically, you’ll learn about Horwath’s Strategic Quotient (SQ) , a validated assessment tool which evaluates an individual’s ability to lead and think strategically. Organization Fitness : Ability to create the appropriate business structure, evolve the business model, develop talent while planning for succession, and innovate.

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How To Strategic Planning Strategic Fit Competitive Advantage 135

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Often used by people within positions of power within organizations, these clichés support control, group cohesion, or an agenda. Organizations can use such phrases to curb dissent, cultivate an “us versus them” approach, and deflect responsibility. Common examples include: “It’s just the way things are done here.” “If

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 15, 2023

A recent study from the University of East Anglia has unveiled how Generation Z views online “personal brands” as a critical tool for gaining a competitive advantage in job markets. Building and managing personal brands was found to benefit both Gen Z students and employers in the recruitment process.

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Brand Marketing Self-aware Competitive Advantage 96

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

90% of leaders think an engagement strategy is important while only 25% of organizations have one (ACCOR). In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle. Beth (name changed) is a senior leader at one of our client organizations. Where are we?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 25, 2024

But my experience is that it’s usually the small, seemingly insignificant threats that can derail organizations. Understanding how successful leaders manage these small threats provides valuable insights for all of us. Wooden’s meticulousness exemplifies how managing small details can contribute to big successes.

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Emotional Intelligence Customer Loyalty Technology Loyalty 76

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Active listening has become even more vital during the global pandemic, as many organizations work in a remote environment. These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently. People are yearning for human connection, with one another and their manager. How can you manage to do it all—without burning out?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Managing your business gets increasingly more difficult as you scale it, Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to ensure that your company stays organized as long as you adopt some golden rules to help streamline your workflow and logistics processes. Efficient warehouse management is the key to a well-oiled logistics system.

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Management Supply Chain Contingency Plans Efficiency 86

Deming Institute

APRIL 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on A Practical Approach to Change: Some Strategies and Tools at the 1991 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. And then I turn it over to a people whose job it is to do those things.

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Tools Strategy Resistance Deming 60

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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2013

And with the shortage of talent, leaders need to create sustainability in an organization. Think about those leaders and individual contributors in your organization, whether for profit or not for profit, who may not have the title of VP, Director, or Manager yet they have followers because of their influence with others.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Costing the organization in excess material costs, holding costs, and potentially obsolescence costs, this waste can cost the organization upwards of millions of dollars in annual operations funds. Just because your facility is tidy, organized, and responsive does not mean that it is also Lean when it comes to inventory wastes.

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Tactics Execution Six Sigma Operations 63

Strategy Driven

MAY 18, 2024

This model offers an efficient way to drive traffic to websites instead of earning those visits organically. While seemingly straightforward, the strategic depth of PPC is considerable, and managing a campaign to success can be quite challenging.

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Strategy Advertising Succession ROI 76

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Their employees are able to describe why the organization does what it does and who they do it for. Their employees are emotionally attached to the vision, believe in what they do and are committed and loyal to the organization. . Their employees are able to describe why the organization does what it does and who they do it for.

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