Eric Jacobson

JUNE 16, 2014

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. Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean.

Automotive 56

Automotive Open-book Retail Long-term 56

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. Hear this: “The sad truth is that less than 30 percent of businesses last more than 10 years, and most failures occur in the first few years of operations,” said McBean.

Books 65

Books Automotive Review Open-book 65

Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2014

This is leadership! CEO Jason Levesque, a US Army veteran and entrepreneur, founded Argo Marketing in 2003, and has become a widely respected Maine business owner. A Shift in Leadership Can Make a Multi-Million Dollar Impact. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †.

Development 59

Development Team Loyalty Due Diligence 59

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

Banking 110

Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The realities of globalization, with increasing emphasis on emerging markets, present corporate leaders with enormous challenges in developing the leaders required to run global organizations. They hire technical specialists, local experts, and country managers from emerging markets but rarely promote them to corporate positions.

Globalization 15

Globalization Leadership Development Development Emotional Intelligence 15

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? Leadership DNA aside, I recently crafted my definition of leadership.

Definition 370

Definition Blog Leadership Covey 370

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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. To align and motivate employees to work together, we eliminated all four centers and created one new streamlined operation in New Jersey.

Company 9

Company Compliance Long-term Short-term 9

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 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

for 10+ years; deployment of design as an integrated function across the entire enterprise; evidence that design investments and influence are increasing; clear reporting structure and operating model for design; experienced design executives at the helm directing design activities; and tangible senior leadership-level commitment for design.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Mike Cardus

JULY 4, 2023

The term “mindset” conjures the image of a single setting, like a TV channel or a prearranged machine operation. Some data-driven insights will understand customer preferences, identify market trends, and optimize internal processes. The Organization of Leadership. However, human cognition is far more complex.

Open-book 78

Open-book Shaw Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 78

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Rebuilding the community image.

Crisis 57

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 57

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2017

It’s common for leaders of sales teams to focus almost exclusively on short-term tactics and current operations while failing to think and act in a way that supports the longer-term needs of their businesses — and it’s hard to fault them. forecast accuracy, messages to relevant market segments, and other categories.

Long-term 8

Long-term Short-term Team Succession 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Indeed, a 2003 Lancet study reported that 63% of child deaths in the 42 countries that account for 90% of global child mortality could be prevented each year through more effective primary care. Market focus. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings.

Development 8

Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

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.

Brand 8

Brand Globalization Company Development 8

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. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

In a visionary setting, firms win by being the first to create a new market or to disrupt an existing one. Tata Consultancy Services, the India-based information technology (IT) services and solutions company, operates in an environment it can neither predict nor change.

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) These companies kept top-management attention on critical processes and KPIs.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15