Eric Jacobson

JULY 5, 2015

With the first half of 2015 past us, here's a look back at the three most read postings on my leadership blog so far this year. Schroeder helped to create a $1 billion company CKS|Partners, the world’s largest integrated marketing communications agency. Run through the fear rather than running away from it.

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Self-aware Leadership Advice Entrepreneur 50

The Practical Leader

JANUARY 8, 2019

This time of year, we’re bombarded with glib and confident “experts” forecasting everything from the economy, to global warming, to financial markets, social trends, weather, and lots more. Most forecasters project a glass half full or half empty extrapolation of today’s best or worst trends.

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Project Letter Trends Wilde 67

Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 3, 2014

In the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape expected to continue for 2015, leaders face many challenges , requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success. Six times more likely to use analytics to predict future leadership talent needs.

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Human Capital Conference Metrics Talent Management 103

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We continue the servant leadership interview series with a real treat. I was honored to have Jim Hunter sit down for an interview on Servant Leadership. Jim has over 30 years of experience teaching and consulting on servant leadership principles. Steve: It’s Leadership 291, it’s called, “Becoming an Influential Leader”.

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Leadership Servant Leader Airlines Learning-by-Doing 100

Strategy Driven

APRIL 6, 2015

My good friend, and IBM’s social evangelist, Sandy Carter, asked me to comment on what’s next in the world of social selling for 2015. Here are the Social Media and Social Selling Trends for 2015 : Social media and social selling are entering the next phase. My business plan for 2015 has a heavy concentration on social selling.

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Media Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Seminar 50

ExactHire - Leadership

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

The following blog post is adapted from a speech given by Harlan Schafir at the Collective Alternative Executive Speaker Series on September 17, 2015. And while the dynamics of the talent market have changed over time, the impact of this change is now upon us in full force. Did we fall asleep? labor force ( Pew Research Center).

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Resources Talent Management Rogers Constraint 52

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 5, 2015

Sandy fed me some support data from their recently published IBM’s 2014 Business Tech Trends Report. The report reveals that previously emerging trends like Big Data and analytics, cloud, mobile, and social are now being implemented across corporate enterprise beyond just experimentation and wait-and-see. Consider leaving a comment!

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Competitive Advantage Trends Bottom-up Loyalty 50

ExactHire - Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Research in 2015, stated that 37% of all small businesses had adopted cloud computing, and by 2020, this could rise to 78%. The team leader inputs the sales figures for the team at his site, the HR department can use this for payroll for the month as well as feedback performance trends to senior leadership and the sales team leader.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. It is important to identify swings and trends so that innovation can remain a strength of your business. Whether your focus is on customer service, profits, investing, marketing, or company growth a constant awareness of your current position in relation to where you want to be is essential. About the Author.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Steve Farber

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Here’s a sample of how bad things really are: The National Automobile Dealers Association’s 2015 Dealership Workforce Study (the most current study of its kind) found that car sales consultants had the highest turnover at 72 percent annually (non-luxury turnover was 80 percent, luxury turnover was 48 percent). How can they afford not to?

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Automotive Industry Sample Environment 40

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. These anniversaries should be celebrated in 2015: The Galleria, 45th. Discern the differences between trends and fads. Beatles coming to America, 50th. About the Author.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. One must understand events, cycles, trends and subtle nuances because they will recur. Copyright 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Quotes on The Future. ” Yogi Berra.

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Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

If you're an experienced professional, it can be tough to find a job in today's market. The market dynamics that pushed her out of a job were happening across the whole marketplace for her profession. to low-cost countries by 2015. Find a market niche. Sally (name has been changed) was laid off six months ago.

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Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2015

We're more than a boom or a trend. 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 2007-2015 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. About the Author. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Quality Books 50

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

The impact of “social entrepreneurs” — individuals who deploy innovation and market forces to fill social needs — is growing. Just as entrepreneurs of all kinds need to anticipate consumer trends and product development, they also need to stay ahead of their hiring needs. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Entrepreneur Glocalization Survey McKinsey 15

ExactHire - Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

In 2015, McKinsey and Company found that companies with a diverse workforce performed 15 to 35 percent better than the national industry median. In both the 2015 and 2018 reports, McKinsey delivered bad news to companies with poor diversity. Include minorities in your company’s marketing campaigns.

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Diversity Compliance McKinsey Bottom-up 111

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He had a close connection to evolving customers, shrewd instincts about how the market was developing, and a keen sense of the disruption that was needed in the region. In a 2015 report, the Boston Consulting Group labeled the occurrence “ leapfrog successions.” This trend has key implications for talent management.

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Benchmarking Trends Talent Management CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Since early 2015, when he began working with Sodexo’s executive committee as the global services firm’s chief transformation officer, Sunil Nayak has undergone his own leadership transformation. CTI’s 11-market study (of Brazil, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, the U.S.,

Globalization 8

Globalization Emotional Intelligence Marketing Skills 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

politics is not merely the inevitable result of our free-market system; it is also a consequence of the choices our business leaders make. And the repurchase trend has accelerated radically. The $520 billion that companies spent on 2015 stock repurchases alone is enough to pay the average U.S. Nor are they entirely innocent.

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Politics Short-term Long-term Porter 8

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2015

P odcasting was a massive trend in 2014, virtual summits are in 2015. For me as the host, this summit was a powerhouse of lessons on leadership, interacting with true leaders, and organizing a global event with massive organic growth. Leadership is not about the leader, it’s about serving those who follow.

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Organization Leadership Engineering Entrepreneur 120

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

While the men of Finisterre could flee economic conditions in Spain, there is no escaping employment market upheaval in the digital age. Consider the global trends cited by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in a recent interview with HBR. Learn from the countries that are bucking the trend. So what are we to do?

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GDP Porter Education Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. ” Fast culture is the realm of trendspotters/coolhunters, who monitor social data to find hourly trends and the new lingo of the month. So a move that looked like hopping on a trend bandwagon was actually the result of a slower process of observation and innovation.

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Innovation Long-term Trends Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

The initiative began when GE’s CEO encouraged his organization to explore how the accelerating trend toward value-added services in the industrial sector might eventually affect the company’s growth. Consider the challenge companies face in the rapidly changing market for power train compressors.

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CEO Agility Technology Industry 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

But how well schools meet this goal, and to what extent their teaching influences their students’ leadership, is an open question. corporations from 1985 to 2015. Despite the general trend across schools toward becoming more finance-oriented, there could have been considerable variation in what’s taught.

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Influence Education Pharmaceuticals Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.

Human Capital 15

Human Capital Kaizen Agility Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. Years of economic mismanagement.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

A look at global trends such as energy demand should remind leaders of businesses small and large that what we do every day matters. With the end of Climate Week 2015 and to encourage other companies to make similar bold commitments, allow me to share what we’ve learned. It starts with leadership support.

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Energy Commitment Globalization Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images. To many at the time, we were fools.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Some leaders will ignore the trend, as happened at Nokia, or remain on the defensive, as reflected in Walmart’s delayed response to Amazon. Radically reduce people dedicated to the old business.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Good leadership certainly helps, but more often than not, the organization will revert to business as usual. The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. Sales & Marketing Adapted from. And even if you’re successful at overcoming those obstacles, it’s very hard to keep up the momentum.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Europe is at the top of your risk list for 2015. You look at Podemos in Spain, with elections coming up in 2015. And because Europe is the world’s largest single common market, all of this redounds very negatively to the global scene. is going to start hiking rates and that’s clearly a challenge for emerging markets.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Politics Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

For example, solutions provider Oracle built huge market share by supporting multiple platforms like Windows and Linux. We saw a similar trend in the software industry, where Microsoft’s strong position in operating systems helped it dominate the web browser market. This does not mean that there is no room for startups.

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Software Industry Incentives System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

And they receive little on-the-job training to develop skills such as how to allocate short- and long-term resources, how to provide developmental feedback, or how to effectively handle conflict – leadership skills needed to run a vibrant business. Building a Physician Leadership Pipeline. The Dyad Model and Its Limitations.

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Training Health Care Management 360-Degree Feedback 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Of the many contributions Jack Welch has made to business wisdom, one of his most famous was “Be #1 or #2 in every market.” General Mills actually grew from #2 to #1 in market share the last few years. But the cereal category declined $4 billion dollars from 2000 to 2015, so it didn’t matter.

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Strategy Mass Marketing Business Model Brand 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

But there is now a growing trend of some CEOs actively lobbying for more ambitious government action and regulation on a whole range of social and environmental issues. More than 365 companies and investors voiced their support for the US Clean Power Plan in 2015. And it’s not just on climate. What’s going on?

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Globalization Policies Supply Chain CEO 10