Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 4, 2010

 It lets you know their heart is in this business for the right reasons, and in many ways this newsletter reminds me why I started The Rainmaker Group back in 2001: an unwillingness to accept the status quo of today's workplace and an intense desire to make it more inspiring and rewarding for both employees and managers.

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Newsletter Content Human Resources Talent Management 113

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

The town, “Tehachapi, CA,” was familiar—as it was the town my family and I adopted when we were assigned to Edwards AFB in 2011. As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit.

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Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company , Authors: Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, James Noel; Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2001. She provides clients of all sizes strategic direction and implementation of programs and strategies around projects, process, people and technology. Succession: Are You Ready?

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Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

At Microsoft, Eichenwald argues, leaders established "a corporate culture that by 2001 was heading down the path of self-immolating chaos." By early 2011, CEO Reed Hastings had concluded that maintaining the company's existing product and pricing options wasn't a viable long-term strategy.

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Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

It is also the underlying idea for an effective — and underutilized — growth strategy. Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

For 2011, it all added up to $4.8 But a closer look at Smucker's reveals a powerful set of growth strategies driving these results: A strategic approach to acquisitions. In 2001, Smucker's acquired Jif and Crisco from P&G, which no longer saw them as a strategic fit. billion in sales. That's a lot of PB&J.

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Brand Strategic Fit Retail McKinsey 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy. Ozon raised $100 million in 2011 from a consortium of investors, including the Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten , to continue to build out infrastructure and expand into new categories. also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ). In some cases this is true.

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Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Bunge launched a new strategy, aiming to reinvent Björn Borg as a notable premium brand in sports fashion. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001). Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011). The essence of the book is captured in the quote by Robert Eckert, former Mattel CEO: “As you go to work, your top responsibility should be to build trust.” By Jim Collins. By Daniel H.

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Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2010

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac.

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Mentor Collins Mission Statement Tips 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments.

IPO 9

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

There is a third element that was missing entirely at GM: strategy. When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. A strategy guy would look at the situation a bit differently: no, a lot differently. The success formula is part car guy, part bean counter, and part strategist.

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Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

The Bush cuts also gradually raised the estate exemption and lowered the estate tax from 2001 until 2010, when the estate tax disappeared for that year only. Barring any Congressional action to change this law, taxes were set to revert back to their pre-2001 rates on January 1, 2011. This provision was extended through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The fundamental problem with influencer marketing is not that some people aren’t more influential than others, but that there is little, if any, evidence that influencer strategies—other than celebrity endorsement—are viable. In 2001, Jonah Peretti had an e-mail exchange with Nike that went viral on the Web. Yet all is not lost.

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Influence Marketing Katz Media 9

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. Part of their growth strategy to go public, offering stock as a diversified company. Do successful corporations operate without a strategy-vision?

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 63