Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. About the Author.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

The Leader : Rejects traditional structures, seeks inspirational role models, tests leadership ideas. In the fall of 2017, we set off on the first of several lengthy expeditions to Europe. The Outsider is a classic Silicon Valley archetype who brings a “beginner’s mind” to a new market or industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2017

Social media allows them to expand their leadership to a wider audience. He improves the way people perceive his leadership by allowing everyone to post comments and ask questions. In January 2017, Trudeau became the first politician to host a live story on Snapchat. The Power of Social Media Leadership.

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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 2017: NASA’s move to Houston, 55th. Discern the differences between trends and fads. The Alley Theatre, 70th.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Science fiction can help.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 9, 2017

A tight job market has turned people into hot prospects. According to the study on State of Independence in America 2017 , the independent workforce is now 41 million people strong, representing about 31 percent of the private U.S. Other self-coaching leadership books: Can't Get Enough Leadership. Ask the Coach .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Nonetheless, CareMore’s leaders decided to move ahead and launched a Medicaid care-delivery program in Memphis and Des Moines, serving 8,000 to 10,000 patients in each market. And in Tennessee, we reduced behavioral-health-related readmissions for our Memphis population from 40% in 2016 to 13% in 2017 and 2018. Our results.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

There’s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. In a new initiative at Brandeis University’s Perlmutter Institute for Global Business Leadership , we’re studying this exact problem. How can the credibility paradox be solved?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

To compete in global markets, you need global talent. In this increasingly connected world, you can’t limit your recruitment to local markets. Your offer should align with the cultural practices, workplace expectations, and established employment trends in the region. Copyright 2007-2017 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

This follows his summer 2017 announcement that he was withdrawing the U.S. 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. Respect the leadership role of government, but be prepared to use your voice and influence.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

CEO activism, the growing trend of top executives speaking out on sensitive social and political issues, has been labeled the “ new normal.” The same dynamic may now complicate Google’s plans to re-enter China’s search market. 28, 2017, Uber cut congestion pricing to John F. fotog/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The context for sustainable business in 2017 may center on the competition between these two stories; that is, how will Trump and his team impact or impede progress on climate and other sustainability issues? For some, it’s about the commercial opportunity to appeal to a new or growing market of rights-focused consumers.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 19, 2017

More and more, the public is demanding that leadership brands declare a point of view on social justice, civil liberties, the environment, and even more. Brand activism grows more overtly political Throughout 2017, the number of brands taking overt political positions, most notably on immigration and climate change, has grown.

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