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LeadershipNow 140: May 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2011: @Jim_Kouzes: If you want to be more creative, think outside of yourself. scottmckain How can you move up if no one is ready to take your place? Emotional Commitment And Your Bottom Line | The Leadership Advisor. Read more @PsyBlog. stevefarber: Make a list of your constraints.

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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

Coaching Tip

Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Be proactive in 2011. . Resolve to take the proverbial bull by the horns in 2011. Add it all up, and you have a low-profit business that takes a lot of management effort. Then you won't have to repeat 2011's resolutions.

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Leadership and Work Teams

Great Leadership By Dan

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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The Hard-Knock Valuation of Brand Equity Growth | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • October 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. For example, if 35% of folks thought Hogwash Detergent was “best at getting clothes white” in 2010, that number needs to go up in 2012 to prove an improvement in brand equity. Sales are up and unit margin is flat or up, b.

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Business Is Bad? Yes. It’s YOU.

Rich Gee Group

Grow up and learn your tools inside out. It’s almost 2011, not 1998. Screw this up and you cut your sales dramatically. And their attitude is they are ‘too above’ this issue to worry about it — bottom line, YOU’RE NOT. It’s not an overhead projector, it’s a laptop. “I You should have done it YEARS ago.

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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. So now you’ve cut costs and freed up some cash. Half of that cost savings went to the consumer – the other half went to our bottom line. While they played catch-up, we were already working on the next innovation.

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What Ever Happened to the Pepsi Generation? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. These beverages plus snacks and other acquisitions substantially added to PepsiCo’s bottom line and market cap. November 21, 2011 at 5:08 am. November 21, 2011 at 7:20 am. November 25, 2011 at 12:02 am.

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