Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

This framing: SoCoLoMo is helpful whether you’re evaluating your company’s digital strategy, your own communications or where your industry is headed. In our next post, I’ll provide some tools for you to use to track, analyze and report your SoCoLoMo progress. The Digital Marketer: Benchmark & Trends Report 2012.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

So when I came across CCL’s 2011-2012 Annual Report called What’s Next for Leadership? I’d encourage you to read the full 32 page report yourself, but if you’d like the Cliff Notes version (with my biased and twisted commentary), here it is: Big idea #1: The merging fields of leadership and neuroscience.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Resource:   The Conference Board What It Is:  The Conference Board (TCB) is a non-profit organization that works to gather, analyze, and report information to business leaders in an effort to help them be more effective in advancing their organization's success.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

 The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.  The folks at Monster Thinking are in the trenches of the recruiting and career industry and are highly in tune with what is happening in the employment market.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 3, 2010

What if that person were retasked to evaluate what the fair market value of the transport of media is? Here’s another brief example of this type of thing in a different industry, a for-profit one (assuming you collect anecdotes like this). Unbelievable — but not surprising, considering the source.

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USP Video Workshop Learning-by-Doing 185

Kevin Eikenberry

OCTOBER 8, 2010

How much time do you spend reading each week (not counting emails and reports required by your work)? Do you know all the latest about your hobbies, but are constantly suprised about the changes in in your industry? Do you have a combination of both fun and informative, meaty and sweet selections? Your answers carry consequences.

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Venture Capitalist Competitive Advantage Workshop Blog 187

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 31, 2011

Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching - Is Now Open for Enrollment for 2011. If any (or all) of these seem too familiar, we have good news: we’ve just opened the doors for enrollment to Six Disciplines 1:1 Executive Coaching – proven to get the results you need to be a more effective executive in 2011.

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Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Lisa recently attended the Conference Board Succession Management Conference and has a great report on what she learned about this incredibly important talent management topic.  Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating. Lisa Rosendahl, Simply Lisa : Succession Planning. Fascinating.

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 133

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Google reports an 80 percent click rate on videos that appear in the search results. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Everspark Interactive was founded in June 2009 by internationally-known Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert, Jason Hennessey and 20-year marketing veteran, Chris Watson. What do you want your viewer to do?

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Video Marketing Mix Press Release Engineering 50

Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 6, 2010

David Deal, Superhype : When a Superstar Leaves Your Company - David Deal, the VP of Marketing for Razorfish, has a great post responding to his organization's recent loss of social media guru Shiv Singh and how a company should react when it loses a widely acclaimed thought leader.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 13, 2011

Headquartered in Lawrence, Pennsylvania, Black Box Network Services has the largest footprint in the industry, with 194 offices serving 141 countries. With more than 4500 Team Members worldwide, we serve more than 175,000 clients in every major industry sector. Marketing might need greater bandwidth for YouTube campaigns, for example.

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Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

  Each week a different topic or challenge is raised that business professionals can relate to regardless of the industry they work in or the role they play in their organization.  Each day of the week a different "faculty member" is interviewed to share their thoughts on the topic at hand.

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Company Human Resources Prahalad Resources 140

Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Rob Tucker, Reading About Leading : How to Encourage Others to Take Ownership - Sadly, over the past decade, the idea of employee ownership has become yet another detestable buzzword espoused by disconnected senior leadership and plastered on internal marketing collateral.

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Blog Human Resources Talent Management Welch 145

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. Capital markets are fragmenting and while merchandise trade recovered strongly since 2009, the intensity of services trade has remained stagnant.

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Report Merchandising GDP Globalization 15

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. The following personal brand statement examples come from a variety of people across numerous industries and professions.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

As the IT industry continues to evolve, the question becomes more relevant: how does one build an IT organization that is both impactful and lasting? Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Blog Maslow Talent Management Human Resources 124

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

What promotional vehicles are most successful in your industry? Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Discover the reporters in your area and profession. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2014

In fact, Shannon Goodson and George Dudley reported in their book Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance that 80 percent of new salespeople fail because of call reluctance, while 40 percent of veteran sales people stop prospecting because of it. However, having the fear of making the call is nothing to be embarrassed about. Sales is a process.

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Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing Training Content 68

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures. Copyright (c) 2011.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

Dealing with today’s digital disruption begins by understanding how it differs from past industry changes. After all, stories of the end of our industry as we know it have been a trade press staple for decades. In 2011, the average tenure dropped to 18 years. No industry is immune.

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Technology Industry GDP Content 8

Sales Wolf Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design.  Most of us are familiar with the concept of "white space" derived from the fields of marketing and graphical design. 

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Blog Talent Management Human Resources Welch 100

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 28, 2010

  Financial markets seem to be in perpetual chaos, our environment is in peril due to natural and man made disasters, and feelings of uncertainty abound in our everyday lives.    Together, the newsletter and blog are a powerful one-two punch to knock the fear out of your life.

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Human Resources Newsletter Blog Welch 100

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2010

We witnessed Facebook overtake Google in most weekly site traffic, while some surveys reported nearly 95% of companies using LinkedIn to help in recruiting efforts. So what could we see happening in 2011? Where do you see social media going in 2011? It was a banner year for social media growth and adoption.

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Media Trends Globalization Crisis Management 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Our most-read slideshow in 2011 was " Difficult Conversations: Nine Common Mistakes." Economy, Industry by Industry. Rounding out the if-you-don't-understand-history-you're-doomed-to-repeat-it vein, we took a look at 50 years of turbulence in across several major industries. Well, a girl can dream.). The Volatile U.S.

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QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2016

In recent years, we have seen disruption of market leaders like Kodak and Nokia amongst many others. The average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has gone down from 67 years in 1937 to 18 years in 2011. First, let us look at these shifts. that we used otherwise.

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Leadership Self-aware Supply Chain Human Capital 70

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. The CIO’s response tends to be “reports” (61 percent of the population).

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Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 51

Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 25, 2010

 Today I would like to highlight a great resource that comes out each month from LinkUp that will help you keep tabs on which direction the employment market is moving.   Why You Should Follow This Report:   I really like the approach that LInkUp has taken with its job search engine portal.  Enjoy!

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Report Human Resources Open-book Advertising 124

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Increasingly, the largest retailers in markets across the country are employing sophisticated personalized marketing and thereby becoming the primary shopping destination for a growing number of consumers. This decrease is driven by a corresponding increase in shopper marketing expenditures.

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Retail Brand Marketing Industry 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2018

Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers were more plentiful, making it more difficult to fill those positions as the job market began to recover. industries, we indeed found strong evidence of this upskilling. First, some context.

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Education Skills Marketing Industry 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Rather, it’s because there are no standards for how to measure and report on ESG issues, unlike a company’s financials. ” All the flim flam and hocus pocus will shake out eventually once a company’s ESG reporting becomes standardized. HBR: ESG investing of all flavors seems to be gathering momentum.

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Asset Management Report Information Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

How did we get here, and what does it mean for the industry? That deal sent the price of Brent crude oil to above $70 a barrel in January, after the industry that had suffered through $54 per barrel oil on average in 2017. The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets.

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Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

On January 25, the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants held a press conference to call attention to a new framework for integrated reporting (reporting sustainability information alongside financial information in companies' filings). South Africa isn't the only country making great headway in this important effort.

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Long-term Sample Report Pharmaceuticals 14

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And a report from the Government Accountability Office shows that from 2000 to 2007 the number of women managers increased by only 1 percent (and they’re still paid less than their male counterparts). He is a regularly featured keynote speaker at industry associations and for leading companies on the power of social media.

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Self-aware Media Open-book Learning-by-Doing 72