Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Leadership is About Engagement by Kevin Eikenberry on December 29, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Relationships Ok, this title should be self evident, especially to long time readers of this blog.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). You capture more market share. Edwards Deming Institute® web site includes several articles exploring organizations that are applying Deming’s ideas. One of those articles looks at the efforts at New York Label & Box.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

In his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz tackles one of the great mysteries of modern life: Why is it that societies of great abundance — where individuals are offered more freedom and choice (personal, professional, material) than ever before — are now witnessing a near-epidemic of depression?

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2012

And I was, until the social network came along and enticed me to blog. 15 months of blogging and here’s the most important things I’ve taught : Complexity in a company is a cancer. But look at the opportunities – online marketing, social media, niche products and services, specialization, the list goes on.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Lastly, he's done an incredible job marketing himself.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 16, 2011

Aaker Free Press (2004) Note: I read this book when it was first published and recently re-read it. Brand Portfolio Strategy: Creating Relevance, Differentiation, Energy, Leverage, and Clarity David A. If anything, Aaker’s insights are even more valuable now than they were then.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In 2004 the Corporate Executive Board’s research showed an 87% decrease in the likelihood of departure for highly engaged employees. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels.

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. I heard another story or 2 and decided to write about it on my Fast Company Expert Blog. I am constantly on the look out for stories to write about for my Fast Company blog. The blog post about Dell was just to point out some business execution areas where I thought they could improve.

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Rajesh Setty

JANUARY 17, 2012

I have been a Dell customer since 2004. I heard another story or 2 and decided to write about it on my Fast Company Expert Blog. I am constantly on the look out for stories to write about for my Fast Company blog. The blog post about Dell was just to point out some business execution areas where I thought they could improve.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. In an earlier blog post , I observed that CEOs seemed to be rewarded handsomely for downsizing and outsourcing, acquiring or merging, and making the quarter — all justified by the responsibility to maximize shareholder value. Why did they do this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2011

I synthesized Innosight's writing, notably Seeing What's Next (my 2004 book with Clayton Christensen) and a 2009 Harvard Business Review article about transformation in clean-tech , with my own field experience to highlight three areas to asses. Assessment area: Market fit. I ended my remarks with two quotes. What are teenagers doing?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

Few professionals were sitting at their desks in 2004, eyeing the empty slots in their calendars and wishing that somebody would just invent a new way of communicating to fill those long and lonely minutes. What's more restorative: reading a blog post or reading a novel? People's calendars were already full.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

For instance, in 2004 a group of employees travelled to Mexico, where they rebuilt an orphanage and a community center. When Steve Miller—now a Market Partner—came to interview, he came with a trophy, which read: Resume of Steve Miller. ###-###-####. He loves when roadies and future employees are innovative. Of your second concept”.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In this blog post, I will offer a new set of beliefs, which can renew and restore faith in corporations and capitalism. The stock market is short-term-oriented. The market favorably receives projects with long-term payoffs, particularly those in research and development. The Conventional Wisdom.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 30, 2012

Mass Affluence: Seven New Rules of Marketing to Today’s Consumer Paul Nunes and Brian Johnson Harvard Business Review Press (2004) Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Customer’s Way Nunes and Johnson help to increase our understanding of an especially powerful trend in contemporary marketing: creating or increasing demand for customized products (..)

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

They recognize that as UX eclipses traditional brand marketing, they need to be more hands-on with their products. The gap is growing between traditional sales-and-marketing-driven behemoths with their "customer-centric" approach and the new breed of organizations like Square and Zipcar, who have a "UX-centric" culture.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Slywotzky is a consultant and author of several books on economic theory and management. He graduated from Harvard College and holds a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has worked as a consultant since 1979 and is currently a partner at Oliver Wyman.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2010

He wasn't talking about how a company's market valuation increases as its user base goes up (though that happens, too); he was talking about the value we jointly create by using a service that networks and combines our contributions. I stored my first bookmark on October 14, 2004, on the day I wrote my very first blog post.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Employees frequently attribute breakdowns to incompetence or bad faith on the part of colleagues in other departments: "Those bozos in headquarters [or finance or marketing] screw everything up." This blog post was excerpted from the authors' article " Simple Rules for a Complex World " in the September issue of the magazine.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2 (2004): 349–399. Learn more about your market value. Start a blog. Burt, Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition (Cam­bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Ronald S. Burt, “Structural Holes and Good Ideas,” American Journal of Sociology 110, no. 3 (2000): 425–455.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. billion market capitalization as of this writing. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2011

The HBR special issue on failure is hot off the presses, and the concept of failing is now rigorously being explored across the blog network on HBR.org. But how has HBR covered failure in the past? 2007-2010 is not surprisingly dominated by negatives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Here are some of the most salient, which I discussed in a session I moderated last week at the Inbound Marketing Summit on " Digital Marketing in the Political Arena ," guest-starring Harvard Kennedy School professor Nicco Mele and fellow HBR blogger Michael Schrage , who recently wrote an astute piece about polling.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

That night in 2006 newly appointed Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke mingled with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo, who asked about his recent congressional testimony, which had sent stock markets soaring. He told her he'd been misinterpreted, she reported the comments, and the markets plummeted, prompting a hail of criticism.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

from 2004 to 2007. How many times have you heard "I'm a finance person" or "I'm a marketer"?) I'll talk about the ways to set up process owners and other organizational mechanisms for sustained cross-functional improvement in my next blog post. End-to-end process management disrupts their accustomed relationships and identity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2012

They're just not the best marketers. The merits of the health care act are not the point of this blog post, although I do believe that the status quo is broken. How could they let it happen again? Compare that labeling to "mandates" and "taxes," which have no connotation that anything good will come from them. The current U.S.

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