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Think SoLoMo or SoCoLoMo – Social Commerce, Local & Mobile – For Digital Success

Modern Servant Leader

Social CEOs : 77% of buyers say they are more likely to buy from a company whose CEO uses social media1. Employee Trust: 82% of employees say they trust a company more when the CEO and leadership team communicate via social media. Billion in 2010 to 7.9 Forrester Research: US Cross-channel Retail Forecast 2011 to 2016.

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OPTIMISM, PERSEVERANCE: Forrest Mims, III

Building Personal Strength

One of my favorite columns in the San Antonio Express-News is "The Country Scientist," written by Forrest Mims III, who lives about 20 miles from my house. Thanks to this assignment, 2010 will be the 18th year my instruments have been calibrated at Mauna Loa. His articles are full of commonsense practical information about our region.

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Best Leadership Books of 2011

Leading Blog

Consider : Harnessing the Power of Reflective Thinking In Your Organization by Daniel Patrick Forrester. Practically Radical : Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself by William C. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2010. Leadership matters now more than ever.

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Integrated Marketing and Social Networks

Coaching Tip

Facebook already helped spur a new crop of videogame companies designed around interacting with friends, Ms. Sandberg said, adding, and “News, health, finance, shopping and commerce— we think similarly, all of these things will be rebuilt by companies that work with us to put social at the core.". of the U.S. market, which reached $8.88

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

At many companies we work with, analytics becomes the connective tissue between the different visions of what drives results emerging from marketing and finance. Consider Intel, which began eyeing Big Data’s potential to quantify marketing’s contribution to revenue in about 2010. Inside Intel. It’s completely reframed the conversation.”

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Requiring Companies to Disclose Climate Risks Helps Everyone

Harvard Business Review

In the movie Forrest Gump , the protagonist becomes a very rich man due to a natural disaster and its unforeseen business consequences. When he first enters the shrimp boating business, Forrest catches no shrimp. His fortunes change when a hurricane strikes and his boat is the only one to survive the disaster.