Next Level Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

A multi-million dollar CEO was forced to resign; a flight attendant chose not to wait for the jetway to depart and an office worker named “Jenny” shared her white board based resignation letter with millions when it went viral online.  But first, a recap.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

   You will find their research in a variety of formats like case studies, surveys, white papers, newsletter articles, and editorial-like letters from Buck team members on select issues.    Why do they do all this?    Why do they do all this? 

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Next Level Blog

JULY 23, 2010

I have the feeling that the disaster in the Gulf will be fodder for leadership case studies for years to come. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This scope of wisdom is most often utilized by CEOs and board members. This book contains original case studies in which the author was directly involved, not a rehash of others that have appeared elsewhere. Hank Moore is an internationally known business advisor, speaker and author. He is a mentor to senior management.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Bottom-up Stress Case Study Newsletter 56

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. I’m reminded of Andrea Jung, CEO of Avon. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

We’ve come to these conclusions after completing case study analyses of a range of companies, including Nokia, Kodak, Borders, Amazon, Apple, and Xerox. ” By 2011, two-thirds of Xerox’s revenues came from products or services it had introduced within the last two years.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Check it out!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. In a 2011 paper , researchers from HBS, Columbia, and the University of Chicago looked at the success of 472 tech buyouts based on a novel measure: patents. How do you get back on top?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

” In 2011, Rita McGrath echoed another one of Iver and Davenport’s points: the importance of failure. In 2011, Joshua Gans used Google+ to argue that the company was now playing catchup in key areas. Earlier this year, Michael Schrage used Glass as a case study of how not to roll out an innovative new product.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Case Study #1: Stay current and build relationships with your colleagues so that you understand what motivates them. For example, with Stephen Dewitt, the CEO, she talked about the company’s vision. ” Case Study #2: Create a message that resonates, and forge a path for others to become proponents.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? The simple answer is that you can’t…it just won’t work.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

First, the political succession process in many emerging economies — from parliamentary democracies with dominant parties, such as Singapore and South Africa, to nondemocratic polities, such as China — often closely resembles the process of selecting a new CEO within a business. In the U.S.,

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. As a leader and manager, you’ll learn how to use these tools to harness social interactions to improve your business and to create your own social nation.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Its CEO at the time was great at cutting costs and preserving capital, but investors weren’t buying it. And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. And that CEO is Steve Jobs. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

Consider the case study unfolding right now in Brazil at the World Cup. Being honest and never dissembling is very consistent with the bland axioms of a “feel good” leadership discourse, but as in the case of sports, it is also remarkably inconsistent with what actually goes on in the real world.

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Morale Ethics Case Study CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

I'd like to point you to two well-known case studies — one from Asia, one from America. The CEO sets the tone: anyone can walk up to "Tony" to offer a suggestion or just grumble about football. Now consider a quintessential American executive, Starbucks founder and CEO Howard Schultz.

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Airlines Mentor Environment Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

In the fall of 2007, I met Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho. If you analyze this case study, what strikes you is that Sridhar''s first business idea was not fundable. A husband-wife team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida has built an e-commerce business selling cable organizers and closed 2011 at $16 million. No venture capital.

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Incubator Finance Entrepreneur Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Michael Thompson, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of Risk Management. Is the CEO's Inappropriate Relationship "One Risk Too Many"? Is the CEO's Inappropriate Relationship "One Risk Too Many"? An HBR Mini Case Study. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. How Risk Reduction Is (And Isn't) Rocket Science.

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Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 15

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

" If you, or anyone else is interest in reading about those they can download my report filled with specific client case studies at [link]. Communicate more effectively. Communication skills are so essential for leaders that it is simply impossible to become a great leader without being a great communicator.

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Tips Blog Learning-by-Doing Open-book 417

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

At the same time, as material consumption in emerging economies rises, we also face the fact that, as of the end of 2011, the Earth now contains seven billion people ; by 2050, that global population is projected to reach nine billion. We look forward to sharing their case studies in a third research study, to be published later this year.

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Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Michael Thompson, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of Risk Management. Is the CEO's Inappropriate Relationship "One Risk Too Many"? Is the CEO's Inappropriate Relationship "One Risk Too Many"? An HBR Mini Case Study. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. How Risk Reduction Is (And Isn't) Rocket Science.

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Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2012

Case Study #1: Be honest about your requirements. Case Study #2: Turn down the offer that just isn't right. In 2011, she was stringing together irregular assignments and knew she needed a steady job. Don't: Take a job you don't want unless you absolutely have to. Overvalue an offer just because you feel desperate.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Offutt, the CEO, had named a time when they could meet. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. Avery is the CEO of a trucking company, Louis runs a bank, et cetera. Finally , Sarah thought. had grown distant.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Case study #1: Create financial flexibility for yourself and commit to an end date. Kate had had a taste of entrepreneurial life — she was on the management team of ArtusLabs, the North Carolina-based software company that was bought by PerkinElmer in 2011 — and knew how “exciting it was to work at a start-up.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

Case Study #1: A vague plan is better than no plan. ” After talking with her husband, she decided to quit in July 2011. ” Case study #2: Your network is bigger than you think. Now, I’m CEO but I’m also the IT person, the finance manager, and the office manager.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Sachs is the author of the book Winning the Story Wars and the cofounder and CEO of Free Range Studios. A good example of this is the Pepsi campaign that aired in 2011. For more on how Lipton Brisk scored a win using this model, read this HBS case study he regularly teaches.]. What makes ads successful?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2011

In The Happiness Advantage , Shawn Achor, who spent over a decade living, researching, and lecturing at Harvard University, draws on his own research – including one of the largest studies of happiness and potential at Harvard and others at companies like UBS and KPMG – to fix this broken formula. Consider leaving a comment!

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2013

From 2006 to 2011, presidents'' average length of service dropped from eight and a half years to seven, continuing a long-term trend. Some of the case studies put forth by Trachtenberg, Kauvar, and Bogue yield straightforward lessons. Meanwhile, for his peers in US higher education, those odds are only getting worse.

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Real Estate Case Study Emotional Intelligence Storytelling 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

They pay great sums to so-called ‘political consultants’ but will not consider asking CEOs and seasoned business executives for meaningful policy advice. Public officials spend your contributions hiring young, inexperienced staff members and rely upon them for advice. It’s tough to create and watch others butcher your idea.

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