Chart Your Course

JUNE 24, 2013

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. They credit their success with more affordable and effective marketing tools via the Internet, and growing support for local businesses.

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Directory Trends Media Newsletter 170

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

By Peter Orszag Aug 13, 2013. “An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. ” via With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring? With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring?

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Human Resources Advertising Talent Management Resources 145

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. He is the top ranked leadership blogger by Huffington Post. I suppose it depends on whom you ask.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. They treated workers as their greatest asset, investing in and motivating them. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm. Eich , Ph.D.

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Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. The 2013 GE Capital Major Purchase Shopper Study found that 81 percent of consumers will research a product online before buying it. Live Chat Online.

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Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

More than half of all Americans are female, yet this gender split is not reflected in today’s job market, especially in more executive-level roles. There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Asking Why Motivates. On the other hand, recalling why an activity is important renews the motivation to see it through. Remember how much of a difference high definition television made when it first came to market? In Inspiration , Leadership , Organizational Effectiveness , Personal Effectiveness , Questions.

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Simon Sharpe Mentor Resources 243

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Home / Leadership / The Problem with Good Ideas. February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. In Leadership , Organizational Effectiveness , Strategic Thinking. by Nathan Magnuson.

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Creativity Mentor Follow-up Objective 223

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Last month, the Kansas City Business Journal published its list of 2013 Best Places To Work Companies in the Kansas City metro. As you review the winning companies profiles (the publication''s October 4, 2013 issue), you''ll notice that wellness and fitness programs and perks are common among this year''s winners.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

And while CEO Tim Dagenais says that’s pretty good for a company that size in those Upper Peninsula markets, he wanted to do better. In 2013 we figured we reached the point where about 85% of our people where the type of people we could count on to take our company to the next level,” Dagenais says.

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White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 229

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. Seemingly, if workers understood what types of performance and achievement earned certain people more money, he figured, perhaps they would be more motivated and successful, too. Has the Zappos culture improved business performance and shareholder value?

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

The greatest untapped source of motivation, he argues, is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves. Sources: The New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2013 and www.LawofReciprocity.com. Grant Ph.D.:

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Social Capital Cialdini Mentor Incentives 139

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There’s a motive behind every question a prospect asks. And that motive is the sales driver. That’s the motive, not the function. you will then uncover the real buying motive. Show me a slide deck prepared by marketing, and I’ll show you a boring message. In sales this is known as the hot button.

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CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Belief Systems 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2013

THEM – Questions about THEM that reveal their history, their situation, and their motives – their past experience, their wisdom, their opinion. Your knowledge of the customer’s buying motives are as good or greater than your selling skills. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. True engagement.

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Customer Loyalty Seminar Media Marketing 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2013

You are unaware of the customer’s motive to buy, and as a result have a hard time perceiving what their urgency is. Here are three new ways of thinking: I’m going to uncover my customer’s intentions and motives for purchase. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What a concept.

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Objective Customer Loyalty Seminar Books 78

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. To help guide your way through, we’ve divided the posts up by the three categories we at LDRLB tend to see the world through: leadership, innovation, and strategy. Leadership. Wally Bock at Three Star Leadership on why Questions are Our Friends.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Videotape the buying motives of your top ten customers. Find out the true non-price buying motive(s) for dealing with you. Maybe ask a question or two about their vision or leadership philosophy, and leave. IDEA: create a blog around executive leadership philosophies. Study your (or your company’s) last 100 sales.

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Loyalty Price Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 58

Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

For example, what are the characteristics (or personality traits) of effective leaders, what do effective leaders do or what are process models in which the nature of the work is connected with the type of leadership that is effective? We’re not going to deal with all the approaches in this post – that would require a book in itself!

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Schein Learning-by-Doing Development Influence 218

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

The lesson is the motive behind the word so you can use the same principle as you generate your words. ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. And with online, on-demand video, concentration on marketing and distribution are on the top of my list. Instant success. The post Post words.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Most likely you know plenty of them, since strategy tourists – those individuals who lack the motivation, skills and knowledge to turn a strategy into performance – can be found in abundance in most organizations. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 58

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast. What works instead?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Banking 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2013

You get a slide deck form marketing, that’s both boring and repetitive – WITH NOT ONE WORD ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE YOUR MESSAGE. What’s your motive? Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM!

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Customer Loyalty Skills Seminar Books 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

” Find their pleasure, find their purpose, find their expected outcome, uncover their true emotional motives – and you will find their wallet. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM!

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Open-book Customer Loyalty Seminar Price 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

To better understand how design leads to returns, my company, Motiv Strategies, and the Design Management Institute worked together to produce a new tool that tracks the results of design-centric companies against those that are not. Starting with a list of over 75 publicly-traded U.S. Design is expected and trusted to lead Nike.

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Venture Capitalist Fashion B2B Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. We’re naturally motivated to solve them. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? He then develops a video camera that debuts in 2007.

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Video Brainstorming Learning-by-Doing Loyalty 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

During those nine months, Cellairis’ leadership had been distracted from their core business. System-wide revenue for 2013 was $350 million – seven times revenue for 2005. The reason is that unless it can continue motivating and helping salespeople succeed, a direct seller’s products won’t sell themselves.

Strategy 8

Strategy Wireless Company Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Larcker, Allan L.

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Hedge Asset Management Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

In a 2013 Deloitte survey of executives at large companies, 39% said they were either “barely able” or “unable” to meet their needs for talent. HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market.

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Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. But if you go to the marketing department and ask them, they’re usually clueless.” “Take a football player. He will always know how he performs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors?

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired. As a result, the nature of work and the workforce is changing. Outcomes.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). ” Other talent management concerns that were mentioned once include: motivating people through hard times, retention and development, and managing diversity and cultural differences.

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CEO Stephenson Pharmaceuticals Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

In the same way that markets have always outperformed command economies, the transactional efficiencies possibly lost are more than made up for by the ecosystems value effectiveness. Digital business ecosystems dynamically create and operate value chains that extend their participants'' markets. IT management'

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