Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Many believe that a brand is a function of marketing. Marketers and marketing departments love ‘branding campaigns’ or ‘brand-building programs,’ because they are sexier and more exciting than their less attractive cousin, the product campaign. But a brand is much more than a component of marketing.

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Brand Marketing Competitive Advantage Bottom-up 82

In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

However, now that I look back from the CEO afterlife, I realize that this view need not be pervasive. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success. With only 100% available to the players of the market share game, you knew whether your play(s) made you a winner or a loser. But hold on for a moment.

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Sports Tactics Competitive Advantage Short-term 228

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2022

Eventually, we transitioned to a national model with eight regional fulfillment centers, evolving from a local market model to a regionalized footprint. Instead of brainstorming about promotions or marketing, you could ask your team: why do we sell compact cars? Focus on the Why. To learn more visit, www.freeman.com.

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COO Supply Chain Globalization Learning-by-Doing 132

N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience and influence. What a sad commentary on the state of equity markets, since it’s the best way for an investor to manage the risk surrounding their investment.

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Influence Due Diligence CIO Business Model 321

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

According to CMI’s recent research in collaboration with the Social Market Foundation , more than one in four NHS managers said senior leadership in their healthcare organisations was “ineffective”. At CMI, we disagree: we believe that better equipped managers means better performing public services. Is our skills gap increasing inflation?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Welcome though such services are, given the important role startups play as the engine of economic growth and innovative output, it seems now is the time for governments to get their act together and reform a visa process that is currently denying startups access to the talent they need to grow. ” Supporting startups.

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Banking Policies Innovation Engineering 70

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Leading Voice Chip Bell , author, renowned keynote speaker on innovative customer service, and consultant/speaker to such organizations as Microsoft, Nationwide, Marriott, Lockheed-Martin, Cadillac, Ritz-Carlton, Caterpillar, Verizon, USAA, Harley-Davidson, and Victoria’s Secret. trustworthiness.

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Levitt Godin Customer Loyalty Airlines 150

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.

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Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 417

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The answer lies within those factors that do not require fat bank accounts. A good CEO costs no more than a bad one – sometimes far less when you consider costly mistakes and lucrative severance packages. This is a culture of entrepreneurial and innovative thinking. Be obsessed with creativity and innovation.

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Competitive Advantage How To Human Resources Strategy 100

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

MIT Technology Review The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine of innovation promotes “the understanding of emerging technologies and their impact on business and society.&# … Executive Development Opportunities.

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Directory Magazine Blog Brand 167

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Think about it…when was the last time you viewed a negative soundbite of a CEO who was engaged in active listening? Hundreds of thousands of jobs are being shed by GE, Chevron, Sam’s Club, Wells Fargo Bank, HP, Starbucks etc. The next step in the process is learning where to apply your new found listening skills.

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Blog Brand Consultative Depreciation 420

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

When it came time to drive cows to market, the hot tattoo was a convenient way to identify a particular cow. The CEO of eBay said in an interview, “Most good innovation comes from customers. Brand lovers contribute ideas that help the brand innovate and grow. And, it is the dream of every brand manager.

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Brand Airlines Wilde Tools 150

Strategy Driven

APRIL 19, 2019

IBM, Walmart, FedEx, Microsoft, Mastercard, Overstock, and Bank of America are just a few the corporations now using blockchain. By 2024, the global blockchain market is projected to exceed $60 billion. Brad Robertson is the founder and CEO of Polyient Labs , a Phoenix-based blockchain incubator with offices in Denver and San Diego.

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Content Decentralization Advertising Incubator 88

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

Tenure Inhibits Change and Cripples Innovation : Organizations that favor tenure also tend to be prone to majoring in the minors. All of these traits preclude the advancement of change initiatives and cripple innovation. often evoke feelings of hatred at the mere mention of their name. I Think Not.

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Loyalty Blog Brand Follow-up 419

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. After graduating from the University of Oxford with a physics degree, he went into securities trading, first at Yamaichi International and then at the Bank of America. To survive, we had to make snap judgments about the world and our response to it.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 307

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

However I believe the more important emotional trait for CEOs and entrepreneurs to gain mastery over is what I call EC or emotional control. Great CEOs lead by example…they set the tone for others in the organization by demonstrating proactive, rational, logical and balanced thinking as opposed reactionary emotional thinking.

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Blog Leadership Emotional Intelligence CEO 419

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Understanding and implementing the concept of “ actionable leadership &# is a major key to success in becoming a great CEO. Walt Disney, one of the greatest creative talents and true innovators of our time realized the value of action when he said: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.&#

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 387

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 16, 2013

While working in Manizales, Colombia for Grameen Caldas (an affiliate to Nobel Peace Prize winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh), the entrepreneur’s bug bit me and I finally decided I wanted to launch my own mobile recruitment service. Because of the regional interest, I contacted the CEO of Assured Labor, David Reich, to pitch my ideas.

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Short-term Innovation Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 187

Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 10, 2015

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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How To Retail Core Competence Innovation 100

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” That’s exactly what happened at Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance. Our life cannot be measured from the bank balance but by service.

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Blog Succession Influence Brand 416

Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Over the past several years a major shift in customer behavior has reshaped the nature of many markets and is leading to profound changes in how companies attempt to serve those markets. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

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Telecommunications Franchising Consultative Diversity 111

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2018

The consumer banking industry is notoriously difficult to enter, not least because most customers rarely switch banks. In some countries, people change spouses more often than they change banks. It has now become the largest bank in the country. ShutterWorx/Getty Images. Importantly, profits kept pace.

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Banking Industry Bottom-up Resistance 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2014

Bill Clerico is CEO and co-founder of WePay , where he drives the company’s vision, strategy and growth. Before founding WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions.

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Bottom-up Entrepreneur Competitive Advantage Software 104

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Banking for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been astonishingly unaffected by the rise of the Internet. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Across Africa, banking is being redesigned. While the banks compete among themselves, they face existential threats from amalgam of entities, not necessarily possessing bank licenses. For example, from telecommunication companies to fintech entrepreneurs, African banking fees and commissions are under tremendous presure.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

In fact, most differences don’t require intervention as they actually contribute to a dynamic, creative, innovative culture. If you’re a CEO who doesn’t leverage conflict for team building and leadership development purposes you’re missing a great opportunity. The Importance Factor : Not every difference needs to be resolved.

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Blog Gordon Follow-up Open-book 419

Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

The days of leading countries or companies via a one-way conversation are over, as Netflix’s one-way conversation with customers on prices, Bank of America’s one-way conversation on debit fees and Verizon’s one-way conversation on an e-billing surcharge recently demonstrated. 8) Measure HOW, not ‘How much.’

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How To Airlines Media Innovation 110

Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform , a high-performance leadership development firm. He is a renowned leadership development professional and has worked with clients including American Express, Wells Fargo, Comerica Bank, TD Wealth of Canada, Charles Schwab, and others. Wisdom is knowing the difference.

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Self-aware Open-book Learning-by-Doing Books 93

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Some years ago, the then-CEO of Air Products told me that it took his team two months to decide and plan layoffs, two weeks to do them, and two years to recover. The people working for the bank weren't idiots. As former Procter & Gamble CEO A.

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CEO Benchmarking Long-term Banking 13

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Consider these 11 ideas from the Radical Times Webcast series by SAS Marketing Director Jonathan Hornby: 1. We want to come out strong.”

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Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

Financial markets are not working for charities and social enterprises today. Most traditional financial intermediaries, like banks, are focused on short-term returns and deem unsecured lending to charities and social enterprises to be too risky. If financing is offered by a bank, the terms are often too onerous.

Banking 8

Banking Finance Due Diligence Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. If the Microsoft board was managing for quarter-to-quarter or even year-to year-revenue growth, Ballmer was as good as it gets as a CEO.

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CEO Supply Chain Long-term Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe.

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Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 89

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

This blog was written with Jay Terwilliger and Mark Sebell, managing partners at Creative Realities , a Boston-based innovation management collaborative. But did you ever see it as the central metaphor for what truly innovative organizations must do? So, we shelved the idea. And I made that decision. It's being customer-reactive.

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CEO Net Present Value Banking Metrics 11

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

The crisis that started in the housing markets has unearthed a series of cascading consequences that few companies were prepared to handle. SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Innovation on a budget. Innovation on a budget.

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Tools Black-Scholes Magazine Rogers 56