Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2019

Trillion Dollar Coach is about Bill Campbell , someone you likely never heard of, who coached several of the biggest names in Silicon Valley during a 16-year tenure, and who’s behind-the-scene wisdom helped created over a trillion dollars in market value. A few of my favorite takeaways from the book include: Your title makes you a manager.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x Disengaged teams stem from disengaged leaders. Leaders are expected to move things forward: the organization (business), the teams that do the work, and each individual on those teams. revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels. We chase short-term wins.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The first of these is when the stock market reacts badly to the appointment, while the second is if the previous CEO remains at the company as the chair of the board. Similarly, if the CEO engaged in a degree of self-promotion, they were found to mitigate the impact of a poor reaction from the stock market. No silver bullet.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Performance Appraisal.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

And the lessons from most recent events in the last 20 years like the relatively mild swine flu (H1N1) in 2009, the dot-com bubble of 2001, and the 2008-09 Great Recession, are nowhere near suitable to withstand the social and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Managing Rewards and Mobility. Spanish flu). Money talks, honey.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Team leadership. Financial management. Change management. Any skills that are not needed or used now by the senior leadership team, but may be used at a later time, should be considered when developing the leadership training program. •Collaborative decision making and problem solving. Communication. Strategic planning.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The reason why they were able to be successful in “delivering happiness” was because those in charge realized that they had to define for everyone on their team what it takes to deliver happiness not just to their customers, but to everyone they interact with. Consider, for example, the release of the first iPod by Apple back in October 2001.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

These estates were set to owe no taxes because tax law passed by the Bush Administration in 2001 and 2003 gradually increased the estate tax exemption over ten years while lowering the estate tax rate, and allowed for the estate tax to disappear completely in 2010. billion estate. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

women's gymnastics team would win gold at this year's Olympics. But, perhaps more importantly, as Karolyi tells it, they also had management. It's the same way you build strong, market-beating organizational groups. After that, however, the national team fell into what Karolyi calls "disastrous condition".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Digital tools can also open new go-to-market approaches. Too many sales teams use outdated practices in making account and territory assignments.

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Ask Atma

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

It is at heart a new philosophical approach to project management. Consider this statement of values from the original authors of the agile manifesto (Beedle, et al; 2001): I. In this sense, agile is more a way to create a new culture than simply a way to write software or manage a project. Agile Concept. User stories.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. Data-Driven Marketing. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2018

In 2001, a new approach to technology development was created by a daring group of developers. Companies that can successfully implement Continuous Development throughout their organization will find dramatic strategic benefits, including: Faster time-to-market. aleksandarvelasevic/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2018

After the stock market’s rocky ride in recent months, some analysts are wondering whether a new economic crisis might be around the corner. I interviewed them about one of the last big crises for startups: the dot-com crash of 2000-2001. He had quit college, and his only other work experience was junior marketer in an ad agency.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2012

This practice, which is largely the evolution of database marketing, has become a critical driver of business strategy for global organizations in nearly every industry and vertical, because it supports decisions with data. In this way, CI's value extends well beyond the marketing organization. The ability to speak "IT."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO. These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

But, as the story of Samsung demonstrates, recruitment is very much on the minds of emerging-market companies. In 2001, Turkey experienced a financial crisis in its banking sector. Our experience at Garanti Bank shows how even in seemingly the worst of circumstances, companies can become the most attractive of employers.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

By embracing the fluidity of subjective understanding, organizations can tap into the collective intelligence of teams and foster innovation. As managers, embracing this fluidity within groups and moving within our teams is crucial. Embracing pattern recognition enables organizations to navigate uncertainty more effectively.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

That same FCLT study also found that nearly two-thirds of those CEOs said the pressure to deliver strong short-term financial performance stemmed from their own board and their own executive team. market is held by buy-and-hold investors who are actually interested in the long-term value of the companies in which they’ve invested.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2011

He was first shown the door when John Scully and other marketing folks led the charge at Apple — a charge that quickly took a nosedive. But the key question is whether Cook can sniff out technology and market opportunities while knowing intuitively (or with the help of others) what risks to take. Can Cook do this? Before A.G.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Due to the fast growth of the SaaS market and the high valuations of SaaS startups, a move toward SaaS seems very compelling for traditional software vendors. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2011

Investors grapple daily in an effort to figure out how to value companies whose accounting assets — things like land, capital, products, and licenses — don't adequately express their true market value. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2012

Recently published reports on the slips and stumbles of two much-heralded companies provide a close look at some of the internal dynamics that can undermine optimal decision-making and effective execution — even within organizations that have a history of market-leading performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

For a designer like myself, it''s easy to recognize which executives know their products intimately, and which manage from a spreadsheet. They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The CEO as Lead Product Designer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

At some point most executive teams will make a bet-the-company decision. In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. The leadership teams at AOL and Time Warner were hardly boneheaded.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. Set Expectations. People valuing Campbell.” ” It was no accident that he led with “Campbell valuing people.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Managing Carbon and Energy. Brand-Building and Customer Connection.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Bernard Arnault, for instance, the executive chairman of luxury goods maker LVMH, was clearly in the same frame of mind when we caught up with him in a 2001 HBR interview. The first requires that top managers understand and explicitly determine how innovation fits within the larger corporate strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6% Mahathir stood his ground, not just at Davos but in the financial markets, by refusing the IMF's aid, reducing Malaysia's interest rates, and restricting currency trading.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

And yes, many of us have also seen evidence that its opposite, humility, inspires loyalty, helps to build and sustain cohesive, productive team work, and decreases staff turnover. Jim Collins had a lot to say about CEOs he saw demonstrating modesty and leading quietly, not charismatically , in his 2001 bestseller Good to Great.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

I found that the companies that survive and thrive are good at aligning their organizations around three critical but competing activities : Box 1: Manage the present at peak efficiency and profitability. What team could I help build? We must ask ourselves, what idea can I bring to life? What insight can I illuminate?

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Women on Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

KW: I lost my job in the 2001 dot.com bust and decided to start my own consulting company. If you look at women’s participation in executive levels in the US compared to other countries we are pathetic at only 18% of management roles filled by women. How is it different than other project management books? We kept going.

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