Eric Jacobson

APRIL 16, 2017

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition since 2002, and has been recognized as one of the "Top 100 Branding Experts."

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Books Storytelling Leadership Consultative 50

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sigal Barsade (2002), currently a Professor of Management at The Wharton School, conducted seminal work into the positive and negative effects of the emotional dance that takes place in every group. She is the president of Equilibria Leadership Consulting and the founder of Equilibria Psychological and Consultation Services.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2021

Debbie Laskey is my trusted resource for expert advice on marketing, customer service and leadership. Once the quarantine started lasting months in Q2 2020, and people’s jobs were at stake, it was difficult for leadership teams to maintain close relationships with their teams in the same way that they did in person.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Customers were nine times more likely to be fully engaged with a company that offered quality and courteous customer service versus one that focuses solely on speed, according to a 2002 Gallup study. He recommends incorporating more technology, such as social media engagement and mobile communications, to achieve this goal.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 2, 2016

Gratitude is necessary to offset the negative bias in news reporting and media that has a 21-to-1, negative-to-positive ratio. In 2002, Emmons and McCullough had test subjects keep diaries for a period of six months. Research supports the wisdom of this practice.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2016

To find the best business, communications and leadership books to add to my "to read" list for 2017, I reached out to some of the best experts in the field. Debbie has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition since 2002, and has been recognized as one of the "Top 100 Branding Experts."

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Books Storytelling Consultative Brand 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

methods of effectively engaging with other professionals, including recruiters, through social media. A member of the Society of Human Resource Management, she received a leadership award in 2002 from the Midwest College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Additional Information.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

Tieto gave managers a leadership score (formal name: Leadership Index/VCC Value Creation Capital) every year, based on surveys of the people who worked for and with them. By 2002, I was down to 54. It was a true leadership nightmare. What the heck is wrong with my leadership?" It's not social media.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. Analytics alone can't carry the day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. Davis and F.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 19, 2016

Debbie Laskey is one of my go-to experts when I seek advice about a number of business topics, including marketing, social media, and nonprofit marketing and leadership. Currently, she works with the Nonprofit Communications and Media Network and Special Olympics Southern California. And, why do you recommend this channel?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

This post is part of an HBR Spotlight examining leadership lessons from the military. We initiated an aggressive media and PR campaign expanding from a bi-annual snail-mail newsletter to a more comprehensive campaign that included not only direct mail but also print, radio, broadcast, a website and video.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Since 2002, she has served as a judge for the Web Marketing Association’s annual web award competition; and she’s been included in the "Top 100 Branding Experts" list to follow on Twitter @DebbieLaskeyMBA. Guest Post: By Debbie Laskey There is no denying that social media has changed how brands communicate.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. Due to the magnitude of the disaster, international media attention was extensive.

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Stress Learning-by-Doing Report Project 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

In this massive piece, Nicholas Carlson analyzes Armstrong''s rise from his days as the owner of a strawberry business, uncovering a leadership trajectory that culminated in a proxy war with an activist investor and a final realization that his baby — local-news and listings provider Patch — needed to be trimmed, or else.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 25, 2012

Then came Enron, Worldcom in 2002, then the crash of 2008 exposed the depth of corruption. Yet, the most commonly used employee survey in the world today--Gallup's 12 questions, contains not one question about senior leadership. I expected senior leadership to be a major factor, but didn't expect it to be the number one reason.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The media circus jumped on all facets of the conflicts, as well as lawsuits filed. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Ford blamed Firestone for tires that would not hold up. Firestone blamed Ford for unsafe vehicles.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 59

Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 11, 2010

The movie isnt well known because the writer and director, Christopher Nolan, achieved acclaim for his later works, Memento (2000), Insomnia (2002), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and this year Inception (2010).

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Related Post : The Leadership Vacuum Share and Enjoy: View Comments John Mike, I believe you are correct in that the key 'qualification' for being effective at helping others is experience and of course that is a word open to considerable interpretation. Thanks for adding to the conversation. Results matter.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Of course, there are those who argue that thanks to social media and mobile technology, the Millennial generation is more at ease with transparency and open sharing than their previous generations. The values that drove why they did what they did, or which informed them of what mattered to them, though, remained the same. Badger J.M.,

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Women's Leadership Exchange

SEPTEMBER 15, 2006

She was our closing keynote at our very firstconference in New York City - November 2002. I first met her in 1983, when I was a member of the inaugural class of Leadership Texas, which she co-founded. Relief At Last? Small Business Jobs Act Signed by President Whats Happened to America? She made you laugh and made you cry.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Spokespersons were not media-trained, nor media-friendly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Once someone (a boss, your spouse, the media) has an entrenched perception of who you are, it can be extremely difficult to reshape that opinion. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, in the 2002 race for Massachusetts governor. Rebranding is a lot harder than branding. Perhaps, I thought, we should give him a chance.

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