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.

Newsletter 113

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.

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 12, 2011

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 Thoughts about Jared Lee Loughner - Feelings of Compassion for the Victims of the January 8 Shooting On Saturday, January 8, 2011, over 250,000 people on Earth died. But on Saturday, January 8, 2011, these six people, all Americans, died in Tucson, Arizona: - John Roll, 63, Arizonas chief federal judge.

Armstrong 86

Armstrong Video Blog Learning-by-Doing 86

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Making four successive versions of the Kindle e-reader also led Amazon down the path toward the Kindle Fire. Amazon was late to understand the speed of that transition; Apple, which launched the iPod in 2001 and iTunes two years later, wasn’t. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 3, 2011.

Leadership 84

Leadership Price Content Media 84

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). Using the lessons of successes and failures from leading companies, Christensen presents a set of rules for capitalising on the phenomenon of “disruptive innovation.”. By Jim Collins.

Human Resources 100

Human Resources Talent Management Resources Ulrich 100

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Mello Here's a link to a post I run each year at this time to make sure that I never forget the tragedy and heroism that took place on September 11, 2001. Join me in THANKS and in prayer for our Patriots, both domestically and abroad, who continue to fight valiently for the Freedoms we all enjoy!

Blog 362

Blog Hotels Follow-up Brand 362

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. (Yes, Succession: Are You Ready? Determining Competencies. References.

Case Study 228

Case Study Training Development Leadership 228

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

When the recession of 2001 hit, I had to restructure my business. Relationships , Success 3comments: Elizabeth Westmark said. The red flag was waving. My friend was bored in retirement and loved dabbling in business. It made him feel young again. But he had no idea what he was doing. Coates, Ph.D., Copyright 2010.

Strategic Planning 81

Strategic Planning Real Estate Video Blog 81

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The second movie is The Cavemans Valentine (2001), starring Samuel L. The thing I love about this movie is that you never know whats going to happen next. And at the end, you realize you need to watch it again. Just like Pulp Fiction. I have to say Ive loved every one of his films. For each person, some patterns will be stronger than others.

Film 76

Film Video Blog Follow-up 76

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Our conclusion is supported by the fact that in each of the first three five-year intervals in the 21st century, 2001−2005, 2005−2010, and 2011−2015, the largest number of net delists, defined as the number of delisting firms minus the number of listing firms, occurred in software, electronics, and computer industry.

IPO 11

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

The success formula is part car guy, part bean counter, and part strategist. A succession of CEOs prior to Rick Wagoner (who fought heroically to overcome the dreadful hand he was dealt) allowed all manner of legacy costs to build up (retiree health, Jobs Bank, etc.) There is a third element that was missing entirely at GM: strategy.

Company 12

Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." In 2010, Congress voted to extend the 2001 cuts for two years. But it has worked in the past.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

August 2011 HBR. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. This is a commentary on " The Paradox of Samsung's Rise ," an article by Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee in the July?August But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies.

Banking 11

Banking Crisis Restructuring Reputation 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

But a lost sense of direction, one that results in a "lost year" or a "lost decade," is often a sign that leaders have lost something else — something that is arguably more fundamental to long-term organizational success than the ability to set a forward course. In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.

Long-term 14

Long-term Short-term Engineering Price 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

They are not just taking business models, but tailoring them for success. 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 ).

Globalization 8

Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. In a 2001 interview with HBR, UPS’s then CEO Jim Kelly described the growth of the company: “For decades, we’ve been able to grow tremendously simply by expanding our core business geographically.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Seminar Learning-by-Doing Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

It was he who, in his blockbuster book, The Tipping Point , laid out his now famous “Law of the Few,” which he stated as: The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. Yet all is not lost. The two struck up a friendship and then a collaboration.

Influence 10

Influence Marketing Katz Media 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

If you ask venture capitalists in Silicon Valley how they measure the success of business entrepreneurs, they would no doubt list off metrics having to do with fast growth: funding raised, people hired, customers acquired, revenue produced. Successful examples of this approach are still rare; most people point to microfinance.

Venture Capitalist 9

Venture Capitalist Mentor Microfinance NGO 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. My colleague, Linda Deeken, and I did some analysis of the top 75 Food & Beverage categories sold in classic retail channels that Nielsen measures for a 4 year period from 2007-2011.

Price 8

Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” In other words, Bunge views success as the result of exercise and work going hand-in-hand. 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.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release. All’s well that ends well.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

To understand how traditional software vendors can move to the SaaS model while managing the transformation’s challenges, we studied how the stock market reacted to publicly listed firms announcing they wanted to introduce a new SaaS offering from 2001 until the end of 2015.

Business Model 8

Business Model Licensing Company Software 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.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” In 1990, Rebecca Henderson, now a professor at Harvard Business School, published a paper that provides a theoretical basis for the success of full-stack startups. ” Its appetizer seems to have been smaller companies.

Software 8

Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

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? Thought For The Day The admiration and respect you earn from others help to make you a successful leader. Are You Doing All You Can To Retain Your Employees.

Mentor 50

Mentor Collins Mission Statement Tips 50

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.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. This archaic mindset flies in the face of progressive supply chain management, which successful companies now embrace. Each side picks their favorite numbers for ’success’ because they really do not know.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57