Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 29, 2013

Being a successful business owner means more than knowing one’s industry and understanding the basic concepts of leadership, management, or motivation, according to McBean. It means being able to master many areas of business, and knowing how each of these areas relates to and build on each other.

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Books Automotive Review Open-book 63

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021. You can listen back here.) Catch up here. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper! And it’s a good thing, too. Building your Social Nation means changing what you think it means to build a company. Still skeptical?

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 67

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2018

In competitive markets, managers have a strong incentive to give their best effort. But economists have long argued that when companies are insulated from competition, their managers may not be motivated to maximize the profit of the firm and instead may choose to enjoy the “quiet life.” Kenneth Andersson for HBR.

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Restructuring Management Marketing Incentives 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. Combined, those two monoliths spend a billion dollars a year on advertising.

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Creativity Bottom-up Newsletter Open-book 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. While these factors are important, in my experience they are best leveraged when employees are engaged, aligned, and motivated to win.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

In 2000-2003, the emphasis switches to employees and the struggle to get employees to buy into a new corporate culture. Also around this time, the dot-com era had attracted talent out of the traditional enterprise and exacerbated productivity problems by leaving less motivated staff behind.

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Analysis Sample Globalization Sports 13

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. It was an incredible leadership school for me. in 2004, and in 2005, her total compensation from her home firm, Whole Foods Market Inc., increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. Starting with a list of over 75 publicly-traded U.S. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. ” That’s a process which requires leadership time and resources, not just a speech about talent at an off-site. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Founded in 2003 with $40 million in venture capital funding, Splunk was among the first companies to target the “big data” space. ” That’s a process which requires leadership time and resources, not just a speech about talent at an off-site. There are ways to avoid these blind spots, however.

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