Eric Jacobson

MARCH 25, 2021

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Management Craft

JANUARY 1, 2013

I have distilled the essence of great leadership and management into five beliefs. I have been observing and learning from the best leaders for 30 years, have held leadership positions for nearly 25 years and have written about management and leadership for 15 years. Five Beliefs at the Core of Great Leadership.

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Blog Management Leadership Travel 104

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. The Evangelist : Sparks imagination by telling a story, plants seeds for future products, conveys experiences and emotions. The Outsider : Brings a “beginner’s mind” to reimagine and reinvent an industry or product category.

Entrepreneur 65

Entrepreneur Self-aware Storytelling Early Adopters 65

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. As speaker Bernard Marr put it at CMI’s National Conference: “ what the hell is Big Data? Sensors mean that an object on the production line always arrives in an optimal position, reducing waste, energy costs and human intervention.

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Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 9, 2013

It’s also very clear that leaders with strong coaching skills have dramatically higher levels of employee engagement, productivity, safety, and customer service. We’ve been networking, exchanging best practices, and learning about ZF’s leadership research and development.

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Skills Film Hotels Guidelines 49

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

Welcome to the March 2013 Leadership Development Carnival! Thanks to those who contributed the many excellent posts on leadership practices, the workplace environment and personal mastery. And a special thanks to carnival leader Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for the invitation to host this carnival.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 360-Degree Feedback 205

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We hope you'll find some insights here you may have missed the first time around, and that they'll help you make 2013 a productive and innovative year for your company and yourself. Boring Is Productive. How to Attend a Conference as Yourself. Leadership's Full Measure. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate.

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Blog Disruptive Innovation Meyer Rogers 12

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Whether you have invented an amazing new technology or product, you could still fail. 5] There are also many opportunities to create a new venture—launching a new product, service, or business—inside a company as a corporate entrepreneur (or intrapreneur). What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Innovation Social Capital Reputation How To 80

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

I’m at a corporate conference about to give my 90-minute, customized, personalized talk. If you are able to follow-up by getting people to subscribe to your blog or ezine, you can actually document and measure the success of your ideas, product, or service. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Audience Customer Loyalty Learning-by-Doing Competitive Advantage 74

Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I attended a terrific conference recently hosted by Human Synergistics. Their one-day #UltimateCulture Conference in Chicago brought together bright minds about organizational culture, including Edgar Schein, Larry Senn, Rob Cooke, Linda Sharkey, and Jason Carthen.

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Company Schein Conference Learning-by-Doing 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

Writing about your company, products, services, or industry will help you to formalize and organize your thinking, which could spur innovative ideas or content for other aspects of your business. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Get to work on writing articles, blogs, white papers, or even a book.

Marketing 50

Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

After the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi , many companies had to urgently decide whether to attend Saudi Arabia’s Future Investment Initiative, a global business conference scheduled to take place just days after news of Khashoggi’s killing broke. “As long as we can serve them, we do that.”

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2014

Many consumers think of us as a vacuum cleaner company – and indeed our first product, in 1919, was a vacuum. As we were a product-centric organization, the shopping experience had played a supporting role, with individual elements of the experience managed by different organizational silos. Our transformation centered on the consumer.

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Marketing Brand Globalization Innovation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2016

A tale that featured three dozen or so people who hatched forty-some innovative ideas and products, all in less than two years’ time, that over time accrued a collective value of nearly a trillion dollars and employment for millions. Then I uncovered a story of business invention and reinvention that nobody knew anything about.

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Apparel Innovation Advertising Industry 120

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Much of the Anglo-Saxon debate about "women in leadership" is framed as an issue of women's "choices." The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. See our 2013 Global Gender Balance Scorecard. Men are increasingly sharing in this guilt.

Energy 8

Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? At Rakuten we faced this challenge and have embraced a solution that not only improved our communication as a company, but it propelled us into the ranks of global expansion leadership. out of a possible 990 in February 2013.

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Globalization Company Software Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

This is disturbing coming from a company so adept at cutting-edge customer analytics that it’s selling analytics services and has refused to divulge the names of its tech staff at Hadoop conferences to prevent them from being poached. Competition Leadership Retail' A company’s age may count against it, but it’s no guarantee of failure.

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Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 9

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles. That is because owners of small and medium size businesses focus mostly on the product and how to sell it. Even myself, by 2013 I was still working for a Company. In any case, this is an indicator of wasted resources, and wasted dreams.

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Deming Library Entrepreneur Conference 28

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

At a later news conference, OSHA announced that it was assessing its smallest fine, as a result of the forthright way in which my client had handled the crisis. Protection of intellectual property, materials, business continuity and core business production information. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 77

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Another sign is when “an employee suddenly starts requesting to go to conferences so he can be more visible,” says Sullivan. And when Garrett opened a new oyster restaurant in Boston’s Seaport in 2013, Jillian agreed to be its general manager. Pay attention to office gossip as well. ” Take action. .

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Team Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

By 2007, PBS.org audience growth had stalled and the product pipeline was dry. Its top two priorities — a redesign of PBS.org and a new video player — had churned on for two years with little to show except a thick binder of product requirements from key constituents. Executive leadership has your back. The product manager?

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Team Metrics KPI Rogers 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. In the 2016 Edelman Global Trust Barometer survey, of more than 33,000 people around the world, only 27% of leaders were seen as behaving in open and transparent ways. This has real costs.

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Company McKinsey Survey COO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

A strong and growing body of research shows that diversity on teams — especially at the leadership and decision-making levels — drives greater marketplace innovation and profitability. in the fourth quarter of 2013. A more sensible immigration policy is critical for making that happen. And it’s essential to the U.S.

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Diversity Globalization Competitive Intelligence Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win. Even if you have the best product or candidate, if you run a hub-and-spokes campaign, you’ll attract followers one by one. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%.

Media 11

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 11

Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

A single conference room. As the day went on, the conversation grew more and more productive. He was selected as a 2013 C.V. Brown University Common Sense Action Culture Generations Government Innovation Leadership Millennials Policy Politics Social Impact Virtues-Values' The setting?

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Kaplan Policies Politics Chief Executive Officer 194