First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Cohen AMACOM (2014) A brilliant explanation of how to apply the most valuable lessons to be learned from Peter Drucker (1909 –2005) The title of this book seems somewhat redundant because Peter Drucker is, in my opinion, the most practical business […].

Drucker 75

Drucker Books Review Class 75

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

While job experience plays a vital role in the job market, furthering your education gives you better opportunities to advance your career and lead a more comfortable lifestyle. A 2014 Pew Research found out that college graduates with degrees earn around $17,000 more than their counterparts with high school diplomas each year.

Education 66

Education Career Ethics Skills 66

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 6, 2016

And for more than 100 years, the factory pumped out Heinz Ketchup and a variety of baby foods to markets in Canada and the USA. That tenure came to an end in 2014 when Heinz decided to mothball the factory and put 740 people out of work. Heinz Company who erected a factory in Leamington in 1908. French’s is back on Loblaws’ shelves.

Retail 100

Retail Restructuring Brand Ethics 100

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Every professional must embrace a set of ethics: Things for which each professional holds himself/herself accountable. It opens your services to additional market niches. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Diversity 86

Diversity Budgeting Open-book Risk Management 86

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

I recommend that diversity audits, quality control reviews, ethics programs and other important regimen be conducted as part of Strategic Planning, rather than as stand-alone, distracting and energy diverting activities. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment!

Energy 73

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 73

Strategy Driven

JUNE 18, 2015

well above April 2014's 81.7 These disparities are also among the biggest misperceptions that both online and offline marketers hold. This overwhelming demand for consumer attention and dollars has created a market filled with cynics, whose defenses are on full alert.”.

Crisis 50

Crisis Strategy Brand Telemarketing 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Multinational corporations long have looked for growth opportunities in emerging markets. In 2014, according to the latest United Nations estimate, direct foreign investment (FDI) in emerging markets reached more than $700 billion — accounting for over half (56%) of all global FDI flows for the first time. of revenue.

Marketing 8

Marketing Company Compliance Reputation 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2014

You gotta be ethical, you gotta be honest, or you gotta find another job. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Marketing & Sales buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven' She knows not only what the best lead is, but also what the easiest lead to close is.

Price 50

Price Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Books 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Praveen Kopalle – Associate Dean MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management and Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. World authority on project management.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2016

We break down empathy into categories: ethics, leadership, company culture, brand perception, and public messaging through social media. The top 10 companies in the Global Empathy Index 2015 increased in value more than twice as much as the bottom 10, and generated 50% more earnings (defined by market capitalization). billion ($1.39

Company 8

Company Ethics Automotive Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

A combination of facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning can already decode human emotions for market research and political polling purposes. Scaling to group settings can have an Orwellian feeling: Concerns about privacy, creativity, and individuality have these experiments playing on the edge of ethical acceptance.

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. and spends it in international markets. Ethics Global business Retail'

Retail 11

Retail Merchandising Discount Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2016

Consider these three examples: In 2014 the US healthcare retailer CVS decided to stop selling cigarettes, at an estimated cost of $2 billion, due to it being “the right thing for us to do for our customers and our company to help people on their path to better health,” according to Larry Merlo, CEO. .” Insight Center.

Short-term 8

Short-term Company Long-term Ethics 8

Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 6, 2015

Although fictional, The Circle is the best business book of the year about corporate culture because it raises ethical and philosophical questions that are not, and cannot safely be, raised in many companies—and not just high-tech ones. He is the author of 17 books, including “ Leading Change: The Argument for Values-Based Leadership ”.

Influence 100

Influence Succession Ethics Bureaucracy 100

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. This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic.

CEO 8

CEO Company Sports Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The NFL can’t unring the bell that made its 2014-2015 season into a discourse about domestic violence – or stop other bells from chiming about violence on and off the field. Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market.

Company 14

Company Crisis Crisis Management Video 14

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Their evolving brands, Quicken, TurboTax, and QuickBooks continue to be strong contributors to 2014’s revenue of $4.5

Apparel 100

Apparel Brand Franchising Competitive Advantage 100

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Also, most billion-dollar ideas don’t start that way; they can benefit from the established operations, go-to-market or service capabilities, and other corporate assets that help to scale rapidly. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights. Experimentation is vital.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

New research led by Lan Jiang, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Oregon, shows that if you give a shopper an unearned reward, she’ll probably have mixed feelings if she’s observed by other people, such as shopper No. growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Ethical Quandaries.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The report describes the company’s governance response and changed compliance framework — from holding 20 audit committee meetings in 2014, to substantial organizational restructuring, to enhanced education and training. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Even seemingly harmless experiments may carry ethical or social implications with real financial consequences. A 2014 survey conducted by Ascend2 , a marketing research company, found that nearly 54% of respondents complained that a “lack of data quality/completeness” was their most prominent impediment.

Analysis 8

Analysis Incubator Advertising Objective 8

HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , employment opportunities for HR managers are expected to increase by 17% between 2014 and 2024. Honesty and ethics are among the best character traits an employer looks for. The demand for HR professionals continues to rise. Have High Integrity.

Human Resources 98

Human Resources Resources How To Learning-by-Doing 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

And the market for software talent was hot hot hot. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules. ” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ethics and standards… those are for chumps. In reality, no single market shift speaks completely for itself. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Interest rates are too high. About the Author.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. 35% of employees steal from the company.

Budgeting 79

Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 79

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2014

Ethics and integrity. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Copyright 2007-2014 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. These are the ingredients that make a legend: Significant business contributions.

Balanced Scorecard 69

Balanced Scorecard Budgeting Risk Management Learning-by-Doing 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In fact, given the risk-averse culture of the organization and the tough market environment, you suspect they will likely re-evaluate within six months. There is no mention of margin, hence profitability is not one of the main drivers for 2014. Timelines should be assigned to these tasks, e.g. “by Week 15 ”, or “by end Q2 2014”.

Innovation 8

Innovation Constraint Analysis Objective 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2015

It analyzes consumer behavior, microeconomic trends, government policies, market forces, and emerging research within the context of our continually-evolving tech and digital media ecosystem. Smart virtual personal assistants: SVPAs started entering the market in 2013. All without you explicitly asking it to do so.

Trends 8

Trends Retail Learning-by-Doing Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

This past winter, I had the distinct honor of meeting activist Kailash Satyarthi , the co-winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. Economics & Society Ethics Multinational' Recently another seemingly intractable problem — but one that businesses could eradicate — came to my attention.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Licensing Sharpe Industry 8

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

One’s social standing was a key factor in this, as the image and self-esteem of many working class men is wrapped up in their hard work ethic, so being unemployed carries considerable stigma. The consequences of this labor market disenfranchisement are all too clearly evident throughout the western world. Labor participation.

Participative 74

Participative Analysis Politics Crisis 74

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These premium increases will occur because, with the repeal of the mandate, many young, healthy people will exit markets, leaving a sicker, more costly insurance pool behind. from 2006 to 2014 and are projected to grow at an average of 4.2% from 2014 to 2023. from 2014 to 2023. Older individuals will be most affected.

Health Care 8

Health Care Planning Insurance Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

By that I mean that pharma companies should develop innovative treatments for pervasive unmet medical needs; avoid corruption, collusion, and other unethical marketing practices; and make sure that their products reach as many patients around the world as possible. citizens have a positive opinion of big pharma.

Reputation 8

Reputation Pharmaceuticals Price Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 10, 2014

Consider: Employees, entrepreneurs, and agency partners have flooded the site, pasting in marketing copy for every company product, adding the official bio for each and every senior executive, and including voluminous details of every CSR initiative to their organization’s corporate page.

PR 8

PR Public Relations Conflict of Interest Ethics 8

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 29, 2014

In the era of big collaboration, the ethicization of business, and the complexity that comes with globalization 2.0, The financial market already recognizes it: In an academic study of 30 public companies that announced co-CEO arrangements, the average stock return that could be attributed to the announcement was 2.58

Leadership 244

Leadership Globalization Maturity Agility 244