Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 2, 2010

He has been in the business world for over 28 years in various leadership positions, most recently as a senior operations executive for a service business based in the Rocky Mountain west.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

Today’s story is about how I found my leadership secret weapon – an operational metric that could play a key role in our march to greatness, and provide a critical link between great customer service and profit. Our competitors offered more channels at a very competitive price, and were able to mass market.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe I Heard It Through the Grapevine by Kevin Eikenberry on September 13, 2010 in Communication , Leadership , Leadership Communication Whitfield and Strong wrote it. Marvin Gaye sang it (and made it famous).

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Copyright 2007-2010 - Chris Young Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter « Possibility Maximizer: TED Talks | Main | Possibility Maximizer: SelfGrowth.com » August 30, 2010 The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week Happy Monday and welcome back!  I hope you had a wonderful weekend.  Why?  Why?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. It’s a form of work the authors argue is five times more prevalent than gig work.

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Twenty years ago, 360-degree feedback surveys - which make it easy for you to get feedback from the people who work around you - were different than they are today. We also felt that a rigid set of survey questions didn’t make sense. No survey can be valid for every organization. Why restrict 360-degree feedback to leaders?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. Who will do this work?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

26, many thousands of people around the world will download Warren Buffett's 2010 shareholder letter. To help you see what is different in his 2010 letter — I offer a partial list of Buffett principles from last year's letter. Rather than lament the post-2008 devastation in capital markets, Buffett rejoices.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. Crime exacts a toll.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Yet even as we connect people and the world’s population rises 7 percent between 2010 and 2020, the number of working-age employees will actually decline in many industrialized nations. Bringing a new prescription drug to market, for example, now costs nearly $2.6 billion in 2018, roughly half the world’s population.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

By all measures, emerging markets are having a tough year. However, multinationals still expect their emerging market portfolios to deliver robust growth and increasing profits based on the memory of their performance in recent, more bullish years. Let’s see how this story is playing out in the different emerging market regions.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

Let’s say you’re working in a new market, far away from headquarters, and you need to get approval for an initiative that is somewhat outside the company’s current strategy. It details how in 2010, Samsung set up a small consumer-focused innovation team in London, headed by Luke Mansfield. What do you do?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Emerging market diaspora populations have been on the rise, thanks to the continued march of globalization, and today’s diaspora communities are better connected with their homelands than ever before. Emerging markets and their indigenous companies should see this as an opportunity to boost their competitiveness.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

China's consumer goods market expanded rapidly over the past two decades primarily because of the growing number of first-time buyers, who were eager to buy goods and services that were previously unavailable or unaffordable. That's a concern for many companies, as a recent McKinsey survey highlights.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

In fact, surveys over the years have regularly put fear of public speaking right up there with fear of heights, fear of insects, and even fear of death. Bill is responsible all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, content development, and the delivery of Communispond courses by certified faculty. Well, you’re not alone.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It’s so much easier and quicker – in terms of having something to say that others want or need to hear – to be derivative, to take someone else’s thoughts and market them; to be a re-packager rather than an innovator. LA: Look at the context in which business is operating these days.

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Leadership Long-term Innovation Audience 58

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

in operating income, while companies with lower levels declined 32.7% (Towers Watson). Cause-Marketing: Cause-marketing programs will multiply. Cause-marketing provides businesses with legitimacy, along with a partner that has issue expertise. Marketing experts agree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. The chart below shows the rise of cloud computing since 2010, the first year the database started recording this.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In fact, by some measures, the best emerging-market firms are more competitive than firms in advanced economies including the United States and the United Kingdom. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. “Stranded assets” are investments that become obsolete due to regulatory, environmental, or market constraints.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

stock markets. First, the more global the company (in terms of the range of countries it operated in and the proportion of its sales made outside the U.S.), If suppliers don’t bother to respond to the survey or cannot persuade their own suppliers to respond, the inquiry grinds to a halt, leaving the company in the dark.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2011

A recent study by Aon Hewitt , for example, found that companies with high levels of engagement outperformed the stock market in 2010. These companies typically give their customers short, quick surveys. And these companies build closed-loop learning into their daily operations so that they're constantly improving.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

A 2010 Mercer survey of about 3,000 companies found that same-sex benefits were offered by 72 percent of companies employing more than 20,000 people. The two decades that have followed have seen an increase in marketing and advertising to the LGBT market that Marketing firm Witeck-Combs estimated at $800 billion in 2011.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

I wonder if there’s a good survey out there I could use to get feedback from my team. As far as a survey goes you have several options available to you. In fact, many of the online survey companies (e.g. surveymonkey) allow you to design/customize your survey with specific questions. Our Freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The essence of the phenomenon is the fact that each stage in the supply chain plans its capital projects and operations, including inventory levels, based on its future expectations. Since 2000, the Chinese economy has been growing at an increasing rate — from 6% per year in 2000 to 12% per year in 2010. For example , U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

What did 2010 look like for you and your company? We found that 49 percent of the leaders surveyed in the study reported a gap between their organization’s ability to formulate and communicate a vision and strategy and its ability to deliver results. Did you struggle to regain your post-recession footing? Are financials on track?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2013

In 2010, IBM ran a survey of 1,500 CEOs and found that the most valuable management skill was no longer "operations" or "marketing" but "creativity." They're also the ones who can connect your creativity circles to the financial, prototyping, marketing they need. And no wonder.

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Creativity How To Efficiency Survey 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2018

women’s participation in the labor market has nearly doubled, from 34% of working age women (age 16 and older) in the labor force in 1950 to almost 57% in 2016. Looking at Census data from 1980 to 2010, I studied how women’s participation in the workforce influences wage growth in approximately 250 U.S. In the U.S.,

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. link] Diploma in Digital Marketing Qualification – MMC Learning | Digital Marketing [.] Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2010

No wonder that a 2008 McKinsey survey found that only 20% of senior executives believe that their corporate philanthropy is effective in achieving social goals. The Nike Foundation also leans on its expertise in innovation and scale to find solutions to poverty, while keeping its operations separate from the business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

BIPAC conducts extensive biennial studies of employer-employee communications programs through both national polling and surveys within companies deploying such communications. According to the 2010 National Poll commissioned by BIPAC and performed by Moore Information, Inc., And employees trust what their employers tell them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

Women represent a growth market more than twice as big as China and India combined. They control $20 trillion in global consumer spending, own or operate between 25-33% of all private businesses, and earn an estimated $13 trillion. Women''s ideas won''t translate into marketable products or services unless leadership backs them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Whole Foods Market’s purpose is to promote healthier eating. Employees are given a voice through a number of means—employee surveys, open employee forums and open door policies. Employee engagement surveys can help assess alignment of leaders’ multiple business or geographic units with company purpose and values.

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Company Teamwork Commitment Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

To find out, I surveyed senior consultants in 2010 at a top-five global executive-search firm. One consultant predicted that firms in 2020 will seek the “same [attributes as in 2010] but with an even greater appreciation for the intangibles of leadership and [for experience] having led a business through tough times.”.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. They too have struggled to operate in complex environments, and have developed the skills and expertise to overcome these challenges.

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Entrepreneur Company Six Sigma Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

A new business model will only emerge through continuous discovery and experimentation and will be defined by market demands, start-ups, a Silicon Valley mindset, and young technology experts. Driven by market forces, such new business models could emerge faster than we expect. Are all of these great teachers? So what is happening now?

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