Eric Jacobson

MAY 29, 2022

Today, we flashback to 2021 : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy to read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 24, 2022

About this time a year ago, I announced my pick for the Best Leadership Book of 2021. Let's look back to that well-deserving book. Flashback to the 2021 post : This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. And, if you read only one leadership book next year, make it this one.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It’s typically not the player with the highest market value. Open Source Leadership rewrites the rules of management, giving you a unique look at the most common misperceptions, illusions, and downright wrong information you’ve been getting about what works and what doesn’t. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2016.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This time each year, I select my pick for best new leadership book for the year. I selected this book because the book is easy-to-read, incredibly engaging, and is filled with inspirational and powerful stories of lessons learned by a wealth of leaders with diverse backgrounds.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 30, 2022

What market conditions led to my success? I also appreciated Amer’s insights from page 97 of his book, Humbitious. And once you get in the habit of asking, you will continue to receive feedback from others throughout your career becuase people will come to perceive you as open and willing to change. Who mentored me?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2015

Instead of going about their business as usual, as people at other companies would do, 25,000 employees at Market Basket (they call themselves associates) protested in the streets for six weeks to get Demoulas back. Demoulas and his management team have been extraordinarily successful in growing the business.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Yet, resetting and leaning into change is essential. “If

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CEO Blog

JUNE 24, 2014

If I Google good running shoes, I am open to suggestions. I wrote an article a while ago on " The Fallacy of ROI on Marketing " and reused the concept in my book " Zero to $2 Billion - The Marketing and Branding Story Behind the Growth ". Marketing success really is about math but you never know some of the variables.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 18, 2017

Jill’s new book is a must-read if you’re an entrepreneur or aspiring to be one. . Whether that access comes in the form of information on your website, engagement and interaction on and with your social media channels, or leaving a review on a third-party site, your business is always “open.” They effectively close up shop.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 2, 2024

Side note – In my opinion, when organizations struggle they cut things they shouldn’t cut – such as marketing and staff development. Even in the smallest communities, someone owns (or manages) the local grocery store or serves as the bank brach manager. These can be mid-level managers or senior executives.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

Partnering to venture jointly Here the borders blur further, as independent organizations partner to design, develop, and/or market particular products and services. He is the author or coauthor of 21 books. His latest book is Understanding Organizations…Finally! Structuring in Sevens.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

a fairly notorious email encryption company both provoking concerns from the NSA but also putting privacy on the map as “the marketing gorilla of the Internet.” With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry. They aren’t. In this case, Hermes wept.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By possessing a disciplined set of principles and focusing on carefully developing her leadership skills throughout the process, she was able to achieve her goal of becoming #1 in the translation market that was already dominated by established competitors. The importance of open communication and authentic employee feedback.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It all starts with you making it a goal and then being willing to change your approach a bit and implement new ideas and techniques to how you manage and run your company. Use Straightforward Marketing. Avoid marketing and messages to consumers that may stretch the truth. Be Open & Honest .

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best new leadership book of 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. You’ll find the 200-page book easy to read.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 7, 2020

A structured strategy for managing workforce can bring consistency into overall operations during today’s challenging times by putting people first. At the heart of any organization’s talent management strategy is headcount planning to ensure that it has the right number of talent with the right skills. Use of tools.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 26, 2023

Getting a promotion can be challenging, especially in a competitive job market. And if this new project is high-exposure, talk to your manager to delegate/reduce some of your current (and boring) tasks. To improve your performance and position yourself for a promotion, you must be open to feedback and willing to work on it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Organizations and markets are complex and constantly changing. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. His latest e-book, Leadership-Perfecting Your Approach and Style -($1.99) is available on Amazon Kindle.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 10, 2017

I open my book, The Magnetic Leader: How Irresistible Leaders Attract Employees, Customers and Profits , with the results of a recent TinyPulse New Year Employee Report, where one thousand working Americans shared their workplace wishes for the New Year. The second most popular answer was to have their manager quit.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 13, 2022

How can you be responsible for holding parties accountable for responses and actions? How will you ensure that decisions taken are mindful of the wider system and longer term as well as short term? How will the organization's values be demonstrated openly and authentically in the conversation?

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Acting Up Brings Everyone Down: The Impacts of Childish Behavior in the Workplace by Nick McCormick I hesitate to call this book cute, even though it is, because calling it that would mask its value. The whole book can be read in a very short time (only about 90 easy reading pages), but the lessons will last far longer.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Don’t Manage Time, Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits. Let’s Get Started.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Compassionate Leadership The world today is in dire need of positive, empathetic, and compassionate leadership, and this need is beautifully addressed in the book, Don’t Wait for Someone Else to Fix It. The book explores eight key principles that form the foundation of empathetic leadership.

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Lead on Purpose

JUNE 14, 2010

The book helped me understand more clearly how the Internet has changed the way we interact and get information. — The Product Management Perspective: What can you say when your boss walks in and throws a new book on your desk? Shirky’s book is an excellent read for product managers.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2016

In his book “The Speed of Trust,” Stephen M.R. The research behind what makes those companies get on that list is conducted by the folks at Great Place to Work , who report that 92 percent of employees surveyed at these companies believe that management is transparent in its business practices. By 2014, Popeyes did a 180-degree turn.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 16, 2011

In their book, Moffitt and Dover define wikibrands as “a progressive set of organizations, products, services, ideas, and causes that tap into the powers of customer participation, social influence, and collaboration to drive business value”. Where the book really gets interesting is when the authors begin to discuss their “FLIRT model”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I’ve written about these and other crucial tools for helping leaders improve relationships, gain executive presence and succeed in my new book, The Heart of a Leader: 52 Emotional Intelligence Insights to Advance Your Career. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It starts with the corporate strategy, and includes marketing strategy, and the all-important human resource strategy. In marketing, great branding steers clear of multi-benefits; one clear, compelling benefit will find a place in busy minds. That singularity continues to deliver outstanding shareholder value.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

gutted by the Internet, threatened by electronic books and plagued by inconsistent management - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today, 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on South State Street here in Ann Arbor, MI. So far, Facebook's key battleground has been in online marketing. Borders Group Inc.,

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people. As Yogi Berra would say, “It was Deja vu all over again.”

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

The same principles apply to e-marketing: before rolling out a campaign to a large audience, test it on a small one. How does their e-marketing supplement their traditional marketing? Create a Benchmark Traditional direct marketing always uses a control piece as the benchmark, generally with an A/B split test.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We visit Tracy Obolsky in Rockaway Beach, New York, who begins her day with the rising sun surfing before she heads out to open her lifestyle business —a business designed to cover the expenses and lifestyle ambitions of the owner. Then there are the social entrepreneurs where the donation is a marketing expense that drives growth.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 29, 2017

When I was a naive manager thrust into a management role, I had the misconception that most leaders back then were born or they just seemed to drop from the sky. Our bank management training group dwindled down as we became “leaders” and landed new roles. While reading his book, I had an “aha” moment.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 30, 2022

As INSEAD’s Nathan Furr argues in his recent book The Upside of Uncertainty , one of the key differences between the startup ecosystems of Boston and Silicon Valley was the greater willingness for entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to share knowledge and collaborate with one another. Masters of manipulation.

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Career Advancement

JULY 19, 2021

Having a high level of specialized knowledge in a niche area will help you stay valuable and marketable. Take classes, and read books and articles by leading experts. Here are a few ways to do that: Use open body language, make eye contact, and smile. Develop techniques for managing your own emotions, too.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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