The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

In his book, Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Brands , Kevin Roberts, CEO of the global advertising agency, Saatchi & Saatchi, explains that fads attract but without love it’s a passing infatuation. Entitled It’s So Simple , the video explains how Southwest is “the company that love built.” ” Ya gotta love it!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2016

CEOs get paid handsomely. By endorsing performance-insensitive compensation packages, broadly diversified investors are indeed incentivizing CEOs for good performance. To understand this new explanation for seemingly exorbitant CEO pay, it’s important to understand a recent, fundamental shift in the ownership of U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Instead of a monolithic one-way interaction, business is now being conducted through constant and meaningful two-way conversations between organizations and constituents – at every stage of organizational development. And it’s a good thing, too. And building your own Social Nation is increasingly necessary in the business world.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2017

A while ago, I read an interview with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, where he made a fascinating observation. He said: “Today, mankind produces more information, data and ideas than from the stone age until the year 2003 together.“ They will copy your products, your prices, maybe even your marketing. The Rules Have Changed.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. Specifically we studied whether or not board service increased an executive’s likelihood of receiving a promotion, becoming a CEO, and/or receiving a pay increase.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. ” Similarly, without sufficient monitoring by owners of the firms or the stock market, managers might be tempted to enjoy the quiet life instead of making hard decisions or taking on difficult tasks. .” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Constraints need not be limiting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2013

In 2003, after two years in Texas, Moe Ghashim moved back to his hometown of Aleppo, Syria. I accepted an invitation to become CEO of Wamda, and built with my team a platform to help activate and invest in the entrepreneurship ecosystem. In emerging markets like the Middle East, often only the most resilient can stay afloat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Why can't more companies do the same?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2018

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. vincent tsui for hbr. For one thing, small-company innovation is often more visible.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

We also found that the professionals we spoke with at Accenture, in offices on three continents, consistently lauded the firm for its willingness to support innovations, from Accenture Development Partnerships to professional programs for First Peoples in Canada and support for call centers in native communities. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] bosxs Thanks for this [link] CEO Success…It’s not Random | N2 Growth Blog [.] Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Marketing professionals have learned the hard way that no matter what they do or do not plan to do with consumer information, privacy matters. In part, that''s because marketing has always been something of a black art. One way or the other, marketing executives should keep a close eye on how the Google Glass story plays out.

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Morale Learning-by-Doing Technology Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

In an era of high-stakes innovation, there is no clearer illustration of how to develop new products the right way (and the wrong way) than a tale of two car companies. The company’s CEO, Sergio Marchionne, said at the time that “of all the cars I can get wrong, it ain’t this one.” In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

China leads all emerging markets with 89 companies on the latest Fortune Global 500 list of the world’s largest. To many skeptical consumers in developed markets, Brand China still means lower quality. Western brands also want access to China and recent global market turmoil has exposed many targets for astute Chinese brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

Think of this as the same, but instead of talking about sports in the context of the weather, HBR is talking about failure in the context of the CEO, employees, etc. In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. The physique of the players?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

When Robert Greifeld was asked to take the helm of Nasdaq in 2003 to execute a turnaround, he came with a new story. As he relates in Market Mover , the story had five parts: 1. He left the CEO position to someone he promoted when he first arrived, Adena Friedman. T URNING AROUND an organization requires a new story.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At the peak of the North Texas housing market in 2003, my company Grand Homes sold more than a thousand homes. It was all triggered by a fortuitous meeting I had with Gary Kelly , the CEO of Southwest Airlines. So we added more training and developed incentive programs. Worth, TX housing market. Not good enough.

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Airlines Chief Executive Officer Attrition Incentives 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

And I believe developing more resource-efficient business models will be the largest single financial opportunity of the twenty-first century. Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, is leading the charge at his Fortune 500 company. automaking industry currently employs 786,500 people , down from 1,136,500 in 2003.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” have grown more concentrated in the past 20 years, meaning that the biggest firms in the industry are capturing a greater share of the market than they used to. Most industries in the U.S. IT Does Matter.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. One guy says, “You’re CEO. You do CEO/chairman stuff. Greenspan was never a hardline believer in the rationality of financial markets. It’s true of all commodity markets.

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