1) What does Managing People For A Competitive Advantage Mean? Give serious thought to this question - What does it really mean - Managing People for a Competitive Advantage? This sounds like a great concept - manage your people to give your company an advantage over your competition. But look at this much deeper - If you were the CEO of a business What is it you could actually do - put in place in your business to in fact give your organization a competitive advantage over your competitors? What could you do as a Senior Leader in an organization? And what could you do a the leader or manager over a business or staff unit within the company?

2) Explore this question in a deeper way than just a simple surface statement of a few things you might do - this question really must consider what is it you can do strategically and on a sustained basis to create a competitive advantage. What is realistic - within the constraints of operating financially sound? What approach will leadership and management buy into? What approach will employees buy into?

3) As the CEO of a business what will you do to actively engage your senior leadership team to create an environment that does realize a competitive advantage for your business over time?

4) Provide rationale for why you believe your approach will create a competitive advantage - what is your basis for that rationale? How will you measure success? How will you know that you have achieved a competitive advantage? Prepare your responses accordingly.