leaderCommunicator

MAY 20, 2014

While I wasn’t at the speech, I think Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg accomplished that recently in her commencement address to the nearly 2,000 graduates of the City Colleges of Chicago. population now hates their job, according to researchers at the Conference Board. What’s the lesson here for business leaders?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 18, 2013

If you operate a home décor company that strives to connect to style-savvy urban hipsters but your website is cluttered, and very UN-edgy, you’re going to be perceived as anything but hip. So if your audience has style, and wants to know where to find more, lead them to it. So how can you get past the skeptics?

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This collaborative event between the two organisations resulted in remarkable success, with audience members commenting that they had found the webinar content “thought-provoking”. It was undoubtedly a productive and fruitful year for CMI Hong Kong, as membership has grown continuously. Event details here.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Usually, adding a little detail to an existing product (such as changing the colour of something) is not enough to start a business, so try more than you think you need. Determine the Cost of the Operation. Are they willing to pay to buy your product or use your service? Otherwise, schedule a conference call.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 23, 2021

Be sure to attend seminars, conferences, networking events, and workshops. Research shows that most consumers first go online searching for the products/services they need before purchasing offline. Additionally, create optimized content that engages with your target audience and helps them find you easily. Have a clean budget.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 1, 2020

After all, there are over 30 million small businesses operating around the United States. After all, your audience associates your brand with the fun they’re having! It informs public perception of your product/service and facilitates future custom. These bags are another practical product that provides value to the consumer.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

As with every speaking engagement I do, the part I look forward to the most is being able to meet with audience members to hear about their experiences and what insights they’ve gained from my talk.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 14, 2011

That means you are the genius, not operating in the lofty, exclusive heights of science or culture, but right here, right now. Broken down into practical terms, this step offers you new daily routines that will keep you healthy, productive and prosperous.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

We came up with a cover letter to go with the shirt, personally signed by me, and then, at our weekly management conference calls, I started to hand them out. I went into this long monologue about how we were missing something in our operations. And it certainly helped make my field visits more productive and meaningful.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 27, 2018

Although you may be apprehensive about this transition, keep in mind how much more productive you and your employees will be. Another way to enhance productivity and efficiency at your office is to move your tasks online and file share through the Internet. File Sharing. Customer Service.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Most people are more products of pop culture than they are of training. I have spoken at conferences, strategic planning retreats, symposia, workshops and board meetings for hundreds. Enlighten international audiences on Western world philanthropy tenets. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. 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.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2015

Organizations of all sizes must have the Think Tank.which delineates future operations, including education and training. Generally, they are vendors who sell 'off the shelf' products that target small niches within the organization. The success of this enables trainers with the 'rank and file employees' to be optimally successful.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

By buying Whole Foods, Amazon gets virtually limitless possibilities to test products and services, test price points and assortment interactions, redefine the price perception for organic and healthier foods, merge offline and online shopping experiences, and perhaps test home delivery or store pickup with ideal early adopters.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. That is to say, you’re not going to prosper if your products and services are designed solely by folks on the inside. Far from it, actually. Of course not.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2015

Let’s look at a few examples of powerful summaries: “Pharmaceutical marketing executive with 20 years of experience creating commercial infrastructures, growing brands, and optimizing product value throughout launch, re-launch, and sunset life cycles across all customer segments—payers, physicians, and patients.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Telecom operators often provide the backbone communication networks required to run systems and applications. Although it is posting explosive growth in cities worldwide, e-hailing has relatively limited penetration with certain audiences. Utilities are rolling out smart meters and introducing dynamic pricing schemes.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

We take our lead from the dancers, not the audience.". That will give us some insight into other audiences and markets we should target.". Why do we want to ask what our audience thinks?" Elizabeth and Natalia glanced at each other across the conference table. Of course, I know our audience is important.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

We see the slick presentations, the perfect press conferences, the polished speakers reading teleprompters, the perfectly-perfect everything. Simply speaking to our audience in a natural, unscripted fashion builds trust because it’s hard to hide. We Don’t Want Perfection. Many of us are jaded about what we see. Is it dead?

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LDRLB

MARCH 24, 2014

My father and I started a company, and the company was basically about taking subject matter experts and delivering them at a distance to distant audiences, and this is back in the 90’s. I had this interview once with this guy who is this chief operating officer of this great big organization. SHAWN: Totally, that’s it!

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2011

These are the sorts of plaintive questions I'm asked over and over again when I give talks these days, whether they're at companies, conferences, schools, hospitals or government agencies. Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.". Whitehead explained back in 1911.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

In our experience, managers tend to focus their innovation efforts on processes that are either large in scale (new products and business models ) or swift in development (hackathons, rapid prototyping, or emerging platforms). Paul Garbett for HBR. There’s nothing wrong with this, per se, as both approaches can pay huge dividends.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Day one of the conference was headlined by a highly esteemed group of speakers who didn’t give me nearly what I had hoped for – While there were a few shining stars, and some great sound bites, I wasn’t challenged nearly as much as I hoped to be. In a world where everything is connected, anything is possible.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

What made this presentation so powerful was it was more than just an act put on for the benefit of the attendees, it was completely authentic and the audience knew it. This is a relatively new client, but I can tell you beyond a shadow of a doubt his positivity sets the tone for the entire organization and has produced incredible results.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 1, 2011

The theme of this year’s conference was “ The New Leadership and Loyalty Business ”, and in my presentation and work session, I spoke about a leadership “model” that can be used by leaders in just about any situation – a model that, if it is applied correctly, will put a business, organization, or non-profit on the fast track to excellence.

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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. The product manager? Others began taking risks.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2014

That was the message of Edward Snowden’s keynote conversation at the SXSW Interactive conference this week, conducted via (highly protected) video link. Private payment systems allow customers to buy your products, even if they are personal or embarrassing. Online security is only successful if every company does its part.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2015

These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. ” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Throughout the global economy, big companies are getting bigger.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2013

Who''s the target audience for the new iTunes Radio ? Other new features announced at Apple''s World Wide Developers Conference Monday, such as the iOS 7 and Mavericks operating systems, had a bit more actual newness to them. But it''s the latest iteration of a high-end niche product that Apple has been selling for years.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Nando Parrado - Nando was the only speaker at the conference to receive a standing ovation, but this is not why I ranked him #1. A great presenter and story-teller, Joe has complete command of his subject matter and gave the audience actionable instruction on how to create influence. Most notably he did it very well.

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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%.

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