Intelligent Growth

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Enable your intelligent and profitable enterprise growth. Each week, Avnir leaders Jenn Cordz and David Nour share insights on the strategic value of aligning your growth strategy with visual storytelling, leadership development, marketing, sales, and customer success integration, and a holistic view of your customer lifecycle maturity. Join us every Tuesday at Noon ET/9 AM PT for unique insights, conversations with visionary leaders, and actionable takeaways. Live on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Audio recordings will be shared as a podcast.

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January 30, 2024Episode 435 min

When The Imposter Syndrome Stunts Your Growth

Leadership, at its core, is about influencing others toward achieving a common mission or vision or fighting a common enemy. However, an often-unspoken challenge that many leaders face is the crippling effect of imposter syndrome. This psychological pattern causes individuals to doubt their accomplishments and fear being exposed as a “fraud.” It’s a paradox where success, instead of bringing confidence, breeds anxiety and uncertainty. So, how can all of us better recognize and overcome the Imposter Syndrome before it stunts our individual and team growth? Join David Nour and Jenn Cordz for the next episode of Intelligent Growth Today, Tuesday, 30 January, at Noon ET as they share six (6) topics for your consideration. Thirty minutes - 5 in 10 practical Q&A + 20 min double down on this topic. Show notes, including links to referenced resources in Forum.Avnir.com.

January 23, 2024Episode 338 min

When Organized, Prioritized, and Focused Work Sets You Apart

Many knowledge workers confuse vibration vs. forward motion in their daily work. They tend to care more about their efforts, although important, versus the outcome of their efforts. More importantly, Output + Outcome + Impact is the formula that delivers performance, execution, and material results in every organization. So, how do we get there? We believe Organized, Prioritized, and Focused work (OPF) is a great starting point for the new year. OPF significantly sets knowledge workers apart in several ways, enhancing their efficiency, effectiveness, and overall impact in their roles. Specifically, from increased productivity and better quality of work to enhanced decision-making, stress reduction, greater creativity, and dramatically improved time management, OPF leads to enhanced reputation and personal reliability. In the long term, we’ve also observed enhanced adaptability, extreme flexibility, particularly when facing dynamic leaders or organizational priorities, and our ability to handle increasingly complex tasks and strategic initiatives. Join David Nour and Jenn Cordz for the next episode of Intelligent Growth as they discuss When Organized, Prioritized, and Focused Work Sets You Apart. Show notes in the Avnir Forum.

January 16, 2024Episode 241 min

Why CES Should Matter to Every Growth-Minded Leader

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Held typically in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, it’s one of the most significant and influential tech events in the world. Although the primary purpose of CES is to showcase the latest products and technologies in the consumer electronics industry, we believe the innovations featured at this event have a ripple effect across every business (model). As such, from generational impact, digital infrastructure accelerating at a record pace, blurring industry boundaries, and digitalization of our lifestyle to intelligent hubs that surround us, and material enterprise value creation from ecosystems, b2c sets b2b expectations and forces b2b adoption! Join David Nour and Jenn Cordz for the next episode of Intelligent Growth this Tuesday, 16 January, to discuss why CES should matter to every growth-minded leader. Show notes, including mentions of specific innovations, can be found under this event at http://forum.Avnir.com.

January 9, 2024Episode 134 min

New Season, New Format: Doubling Down on Trust

Happy New Year. As we embark on a new season of Intelligent Growth, we will change things up a bit to keep them interesting. Each show will now only be 30 minutes in duration. We’ve long advocated value in brevity. Let’s see how much value we can pack in 30 minutes. We want to make the content even more practical and pragmatically relevant with actionable takeaways. We want you to explore and implement what you see and hear. 5 in 10 - Jenn and I will tag team and answer five questions in 10 min. Be quick, or get the buzzer! We’ll pick a curated topic in the news each week and double down on it - this week is trust, the mess at Carta, and a couple of other missteps we’ve observed. I’m also writing a Forbes Leadership column on the topic this week. Show Notes in the Avnir Forum - come join us. See you each week on Tuesdays at Noon ET. On with the show…

December 19, 2023Episode 4954 min

2024 Growth Projections

From doubling down on a defensible moat to leveraging trends as an ally, turbocharging your core, prioritizing capital efficiency, and looking beyond your perceived value creation limits, certain strategies will definitively set competitive peers apart in 2024. Join Avnir leaders David Nour and Jenn Cordz for this final episode of the year, as they discuss 2024 Growth Projections - intentional, strategic, and quantifiable, with relationship-centricity as the genesis.

December 12, 2023Episode 481 hr 2 min

Year-End Digital / RevOps House Cleaning

2023 is ending in a few weeks. Name the tech, tool, or platform that was most instrumental to your success? Which ones were truly strategic to your efficiency and effectiveness and propelled you forward, if not elevated, your professional brand? Which digital platform caused more aggravation, redundancy, and operational inefficiencies in your world, realm of responsibilities, or professional aspirations? Year-end is an excellent time for every professional to evaluate and refresh their personal digital presence and for organizations, their Rev Ops platforms. This house cleaning can ensure that your strategic priorities enter the new year with a strategically aligned digital footprint that elevates your performance, execution, and results. Conducting this year-end digital / rev ops house cleaning not only helps in maintaining a healthy balance with all that tech is capable of but also in aligning your continued digital transformation with your overall business goals. It’s a proactive approach that sets a positive tone for the new year and lays the groundwork for continued success. Join David Nour and Jenn Cordz for the next episode of Intelligent Growth LIVE as they discuss year-end digital / RevOps house cleaning today, Tuesday, 12-Dec, at Noon ET LIVE.

December 5, 2023Episode 471 hr 5 min

Year-End Business Relationship House Cleaning

2023 is ending in a few weeks. Name the best person you met this year. Which ones were truly strategic to your personal/professional growth and success? Which relationships didn’t turn out quite as impactful as you had hoped, and which relationships did you neglect? Which relationships should you deprioritize in the new year, so you can prioritize investing in others? Year-end is an excellent time for every professional to evaluate and refresh their business relationships. This house cleaning can ensure that your strategic priorities enter the new year with strong, productive, and strategically aligned relationships. Conducting this year-end business relationship house cleaning not only helps in maintaining healthy relationships but also in aligning your relationship management strategies with your overall business goals. It’s a proactive approach that sets a positive tone for the new year and lays the groundwork for continued success. Join David Nour and Jenn Cordz for the next episode of Intelligent Growth LIVE as they discuss year-end business relationship house cleaning today, Tuesday, 5-Dec, at Noon ET LIVE.

November 28, 2023Episode 461 hr 1 min

The Age of the Agile Sales Organization with John Barrows

Ask any leader to define an agile sales organization, and they’ll define it as the ability to quickly respond to changes in the market, customer needs, and organizational dynamics. From its customer-centricity to a culture of collaboration, responsiveness, and adaptability, one that’s focused on continuous improvements and data-driven decision-making, many of these attributes consistently set one sales organization apart from its competitive peers. And it shows in the market where even in our continuous time of uncertainty, they grow intelligently and grab share from others. Regrettably, that’s not the posture of many sales organizations today with over-engineered sales processes, too much reliance on tech, and a lost sight of the fundamentals. And the tone is set from the top. Join Avnir leaders Jenn Cordz and David Nour for the next episode of Intelligent Growth LIVE in the Age of the Agile Sales Organization with John Barrows today, Tuesday, 28 November at Noon ET.

November 21, 2023Episode 4548 min

Growth As a Leadership Opportunity with Scott Edinger

Organizations need the right kind of leadership to grow. Astute senior executives create intelligent growth through the intersection of a clear strategy, inspiring leadership, and aligned sales. Beyond real innovation, they establish a true competitive advantage by using their sales organizations to add and create material value. How? They champion the role of the sales organization as the company’s value-creating engine. They develop the right kind of sales connection by formulating a strategy with sales at the center. They ensure that the customer experience is the sales experience, ensuring a highly differentiated company rhythm. They communicate with clarity, credibility, and connection as the lens for driving stronger results. Join Avnir leaders Jenn Cordz and David Nour as they welcome Scott Edinger, author of the newly released book The Growth Leader (Fast Company Press, Oct. 2023), LIVE tomorrow, Tuesday, November 21, at Noon ET. Join us in the Avnir Forum for more details.

November 14, 2023Episode 4443 min

OKRs, NPS, and FAST Goals - The Power of Accountability

Most leaders want their teams to set clear targets, measure progress, align efforts across different groups or departments, motivate employees, and ultimately drive performance and continuous improvement. What if organizations could execute their strategy more effectively by clarifying what success looks like and how it can be achieved? That’s where we believe OKRs, NPS, and FAST Goals come in - they create accountability at every level of the organization. From Alignment and focus to measurement and tracking, motivation and engagement, strategic planning, continuous improvements, and sustaining a culture of performance, these tools are often misunderstood rather than implemented as enablers and empowering of accountability. Join Avnir leaders Jenn Cordz and David Nour on the next episode of the Intelligent Growth LIVE, today at Noon ET, as they discuss OKRs, NPS, and FAST Goals - The Power of Accountability.