Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. And, by the way, that guy is now Senior Vice President and Treasurer of his Fortune 500 company. I have so many examples of how that works so I’ll share just one. It was a connection.

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Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 237

Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

For example, if a company claims it welcomes innovation and risk taking, but then only rewards employees who toe the company line and reinforce the status quo, sooner or later people will simply stop asking questions, innovating, and stretching themselves. Instead, they will conform in order to please their bosses.

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Budgeting Banking Ethics Commitment 285

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 29, 2023

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. It’s by no means universal, however, with Amazon famously having an empty chair at company meetings to represent customers. The company has also a somewhat patchy record when it comes to treating employees well.

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Leadership Styles Trends Agility Letter 59

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 7, 2018

After all, you face 24/7/365, always-on media, government regulators, Wall Street analysts, company shareholders, community stakeholders, critics, customers and employees, each with different – and sometimes conflicting – demands. In 2005, however, I noticed a troublesome trend. For company benefits? How could it not?

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Bottom-up Health Care Policies Fashion 168

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Guest post by Paul Smith : It happens every time you join a new company, or even when you change roles at the company you work for now. A great example of this happened in January of 2005 when Procter & Gamble bought the Gillette Company in the largest consumer packaged goods acquisition in history. personally.

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Storytelling Audience Insurance Survey 120

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

R OBERT IGER has worked for the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, and another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995—the last fourteen of those years, as the CEO of Disney. These priorities have guided the company through all of the growth and acquisitions since he was named CEO.

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Leadership Long-term Self-aware Short-term 213

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. He was the CEO of two New York publishing companies, Tudor and Knightsbridge. About the Author.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

LDRLB

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Morgan (2005) uses a great image of a spider-plant to describe the decentralization trend. Starfish, on the other hand, is an example of system where decision-making is distributed throughout the entire organization. Can for profit companies adopt a starfish model? In fact, one company does: eBay. New York, NY: Portfolio.

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Decentralization Organization Trends Reference 74

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Goes With What It Knows: Making Stuff,” centers on how Immelt is leading the company away from financial services and “soft services” like broadcasting and back to its historical roots of technology driven manufacturing.   Seeing that clean energy was going to be a growth market, Immelt launched ecomagination in 2005. 

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Leadership How To Executive Coaching Blog 178

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful.

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Marketing Company Sample CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

You might think that emerging country companies are more ready to address the needs of and win customers in other emerging markets. is expanding rapidly via acquisitions of Issue Group and Cosmetica Nacional in Latin America, while China's Huawei has a large direct presence in India's telecom market.

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Marketing Company Six Sigma Engineering 11

Women on Business

JANUARY 26, 2011

Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. No longer a company creature; my job was surely destroying my soul. I packed my box, said “so long&# to the big bucks, turned in my company SUV, let go of a cushy expense account, and found the courage to walk away from a career that no longer suited me.

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Press Release PR Exit Strategy Discount 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

The new conventional wisdom on corporate structure is that companies can do better by organizing themselves around customer groups. The logic sounds compelling: A customer-centric structure , as the approach is known, can help a company understand its customers better, develop deeper relationships with them, and improve customer satisfaction.

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Restructuring Company Henderson Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2018

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. On the flip side, a strategic transaction can catapult a company into first-mover position, give a speed to market advantage over rivals, and potentially let a larger company run away with a new market.

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Due Diligence How To Technology Emotional Intelligence 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2015

The Enron example is included in their paper.) Still, stated values might also represent a firm’s aspirations, the type of company it strives to be. If that’s the case, maybe the values on a company’s website are meaningful after all; perhaps Enron is the exception rather than the rule.

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Company Collins Short-term Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We've seen success with a novel approach to talent engagement: an integrated HR-Marketing strategy that teams Marketing's brand messaging savvy with HR's internal perspective and expertise. When HR brings a communication orientation to its role, the entire company benefits.

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Marketing Brand Benchmarking Marketing Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2016

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. For instance, despite the importance of accurately identifying and calculating company synergies, diligence work frequently results in an overly optimistic view of the revenue synergy opportunity.

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Strategy Company Biotechnology Franchising 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

During the private beta we will engage with some influentials (example A-listers ) and our goal is to convert these influentials into evangelists. Apart from using PPC (pay-per-click) and CPE (cost-per-engagement) based advertisements to jump-start adoption, we have engaged some experts to work on social media marketing.

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Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2014

Companies across the globe are tackling some of the world’s greatest societal challenges — water scarcity, climate change, and even the rights of women and girls in the developing world. Did you ever have a moment where you said to yourself, “We as a company can be part of the solution to environmental problems”?

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CEO Company Reputation Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For one thing, in an era when trust in traditional sources has eroded — in government, media, and in companies and the marketing they employ — word-of-mouth from trusted peers wields greater clout than ever. Around 2005, marketing became a bigger force driving growth. Take our commission plan, for example.

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B2C Energy Marketing B2B 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings. In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). Employees get to choose which. per member per month.

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Health Care Cost Morale Company 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2016

The Internet of Things is a good example of this change. Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. inch vs. 3.5-inch

Company 8

Company How To Technology Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

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Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

To gain advantage on this leveled playing field, there’s one powerful branding tool that has been generally overlooked — or perhaps undervalued — by most marketers: sound. They launched an audio branding initiative in 2005 for two key reasons. SNCF Audio DNA, 2005. SNCF’s Audio Logo, 2005.

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Brand Advertising B2C B2B 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2013

But the kind of organization that marks our own historical moment is, arguably, the turnaround company. So what does it take for a leader to pull a company out of the doldrums, or indeed out of real or potential bankruptcy? Consider the example of Starbucks. The 1960s were the age of the conglomerate. Talk straight.

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Company Video CEO Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

including CNOOC's attempt to purchase Unocal in 2005 and Huawei's attempt to buy 3Leaf Systems in 2011. billion in 2011 , but then had to retract because the companies could not agree on terms and struggled to get Chinese regulatory approval. These examples are rather more typical than they should be. billion and $3.0

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Due Diligence Strategic Planning Politics Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, if category expansion is critical to value creation in a particular strategy, plans should focus disproportionally on how to achieve this. For example, new drugs are not discovered by pursuing a target number of new drugs, but rather by exploring new areas of chemistry and biology. ” Metric obsession.

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Execution Strategy Gantt Chart Film 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

An interconnected world where technology advances at a dizzying pace and new companies emerge, scale, and decline in the blink of an eye means never a dull moment for corporate leaders. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant. billion), proclaiming McKinsey’s analysis “shallow and superficial.”.

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Disruptive Innovation Advertising Gilbert Market Segmentation 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

cents for a sachet that could purify 10 liters, Pur achieved penetration rates of 5% to 10% in its test markets — strong by almost any yardstick — but in 2005 the company gave up on Pur as a business, because the numbers simply hadn't worked. At a price equivalent to 10 U.S. And getting to scale takes a lot longer.

Microfinance 13

Microfinance Prahalad Bottom-up Banking 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 7, 2015

Here’s a conundrum: On the one hand, there’s a consensus among thoughtful business leaders that too many companies are sacrificing long-term growth on the altar of smooth, reliable short-term earnings. The 2005 refinery disaster at BP’s Texas City is an example of what can happen when these investments get neglected.

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Short-term Henderson Long-term Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. .” After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2011

For example, commercial telephony services emerged in the 1870s. DVDs replaced video cassettes in many markets seemingly overnight. Rumors suggest its next funding round will value the company at more than $1 billion — only two years after formation. It is likely to start relatively slowly in established markets.

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Banking Chemicals Technology Video 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2018

For example, in 2009 professors Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Richard Beatty estimated that in most companies less than 15% of jobs are what they call strategic positions and said management should focus “disproportionate investments” on finding A players for those jobs. Connectors in the middle. Critical contractors.

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McKinsey Human Resources Reputation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

Its HR function has been instrumental in the $100 billion company's metamorphosis from a floundering computer manufacturer in the 1990s to a prosperous software and consulting services company today. HR has helped the organization absorb more than 125 acquisitions since 2000 , and integrate globally, saving $6 billion since 2005.

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Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2013

For example, look at Lululemon. The company spends virtually nothing on advertising. The company now has over 200 stores, and sales soared from US $40 million to US $1.37 But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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Apparel Brand Sports Advertising 8