CEO Blog

JULY 5, 2016

I read a great book by Carmen Simon, PhD called Impossible to Ignore - Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions. Of course I love marketing and SEO. Simon is a Cognitive Scientist. Simon has the advantage of hindsight. Good book - I enjoyed it. + It is always easy to see what great Content worked.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2020

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. In his book Finite and Infinite Games , the author James Carse identifies the difference as being: Finite games have a start and finish.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Rather, business leaders need to take a longer term approach, which means no longer being driven by the 90-day reporting cycles of the world’s stock markets. No longer is it acceptable for CEO’s to focus on short-term gain to line their pockets.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe Six of My Favorite Books of the Year by Kevin Eikenberry on December 27, 2010 in Leadership , Learning , Reading As long time newsletter readers know I read a lot. Of all the books I read this year, these six stand out.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 9, 2015

Who wouldn’t want to pick up a book and glean the insights from those who have gone before us? Tallying up the books, the total came to 34 books read. Today, I want to share with you the books that impacted my life and a leadership lesson I took away from each book. Physical Books. Are you ready?

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. As Simon Sinek has said, Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first. How can a leader put leadership first?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2018

One of the best bolt-on tools at the core level is Simon Sinek’s Start with Why. competitive advantage, value proposition, and market position) and drill down to function-level strategy (e.g., marketing, sales, product development, and innovation). Sinek goes deep into defining a purpose. Don’t get overwhelmed by them.

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LDRLB

JULY 20, 2010

As Simon Sinek would put it, we sell the what or how. While positioned at current and aspiring leaders, Start With Why , reads more like a marketing book. Indeed, the majority of Sinek’s examples are of market leading products or companies, not leaders within those companies or movements.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

” This post describes 10 behaviours that are key to dealing effectively with rapidly changing markets and consumer tastes. Neal states: “ There is nothing more daunting than staring at a blank computer screen or blank page to write your Pulitzer Prize best-selling book with blank pages. Find Jim on Twitter at @72keys.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 17, 2020

Simon Sinek is filming short videos where he’s answering questions from readers. Five or six years ago I wrote a book called Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative. I wrote a lot in that book about the importance of mindfulness which I define as the combination of two words – awareness and intention.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 30, 2016

I posted an article on Linkedin on easy video marketing. I believe in video for marketing but am not a real consumer of video (No TV does that). 100-200 people read a post out of 5,000 connection. ++ I love Simon Sinek's thinking. I just re-read his book - Start with the Why. I like the Linkedin publishing platform.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 25, 2011

In a stunning reversal against the digital book market, the Wall Street Journal reports that a successful author has turned to phyiscal paperbacks through a contract with a traditional publisher. Trachtenberg, is entitled “E-Book Author Tries New Format: Real Paperbacks&# (August 23, 2011, p.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes figured out that even when it comes to uncertain outcomes, we can update our knowledge by incorporating new, relevant information as it becomes available. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” Red Zone Marketing’s “Why”: We focus our efforts on finding simple, common sense and inexpensive alternatives to creating growth in a business. We are committed to designing smart marketing strategies – not the flashiest or most complex.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

In his landmark book Getting Things Done , David Allen shares six distinct ways asking, “why?” Remember how much of a difference high definition television made when it first came to market? jaredwj wow, that book looks for real! And I’m not the only one who thinks so. ” adds value. hGVa9 8 hours ago.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

Improving public services Finally, a short update on another area we are currently working in: CMI is partnering with the Social Market Foundation to explore how to get improved results from the UK’s public services. We’ve got an exclusive interview with Simon here ! Book your place here! Catch up here.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

It’s why I wrote my book Why Leadership Sucks™ … to highlight the fact that servant leadership is the best way to go. What is the number #1 book you recommend for learning how to become a better leader (boss/manager or leading self)? But this post isn’t all about me and only my advice.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

A Choice, Not a Symptom “Confidence is a choice,” wrote marketing savant Seth Godin, “not a symptom.” He is the author of two books published by Simon & Schuster and Wiley in 24 languages and over 50 countries. You can download a FREE copy of his latest book, “Catalyst”, at this link.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In his book Start with Why?, Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. He is accountable for the commercial, channel, product and marketing strategy for Sage One worldwide. Nick was previously Head of Sage One for Sage UK, and prior to that, Head of Marketing for the Accountants Division at Sage. part 3 of 3 !

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. Your book poses thoughtful questions. The book is best approached with an open mind and a degree of humor and humility. Understandably, a lot of business books focus on how to get strategy right.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

See Simon Sinek’s Start with Why TED Talk.) This means people feel “safe” offering different opinions, ideas, suggestions and, as outlined in the research and findings in Jim Collins’ book Good to Great, engaging in “vigorous intellectual debate.” They are more engaged. instead of increasing it. in your enterprise.

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Steve Farber

MARCH 26, 2014

” Another guest, Janet Bray Attwood, who co-authored the bestselling book, The Passion Test , will teach participants her process for, in her words, “discovering your life purpose.”. “To ” Simon Billsberry, CEO of RevolutionDNA, is just such an individual, according to Farber. “Simon is a huge advocate of our work.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I have written several books, on business, entertainment, history and pop culture. My four Legends books include “Pop Icons and Business Legends,” “The Classic Television Reference,” “Houston Legends” and “Non-Profit Legends.” There has never been a full-scope book on non-profit service. This series will have three more to come.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

I continually dust off old chestnuts and reapply them for clients, in my books, through my speeches and in sharing with mentees. provided lush arrangements for easy listening singers such as Ed Ames, Carly Simon, Sammy Davis Jr., Power Stars to Light the Business Flame is now out in all three e-book formats: iTunes , Kindle , and Nook.

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The Idolbuster

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

From the book “The Invisible Gorilla” by Chabris and Simons I learned that we notice a lot less than we think we do. In the next post, we’ll meet someone who wanted to be the one to bring the company back after both the market and the culture turned sour. <<Previous 2010) Crown p55-57.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action. Jeroen De Flander helps you to improve your strategy execution skills in his new book, The Execution Shortcut. Take lots of time to promote yourself and actively campaign for a better job. Never take the blame.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 21, 2012

I have read several of your books and I love your iPhone app! In fact, SOMEHOW, it seems that regardless of our marketing efforts, referrals, etc. In fact, SOMEHOW, it seems that regardless of our marketing efforts, referrals, etc. I am having some difficulty growing my business and I KNOW you are the perfect person to help me!

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2010

As a matter of policy, we don't review our own books, but we hope you will. In this book Booz experts Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi reveal the three elements of your organization's strategy that must match up for it to make the most of its efforts. The Essential Advantage: How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Ergo: heuristics win.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 5, 2010

King’s been past his expiry date for a few years now (sorry, but when you’re interviewing guests and calling them by the wrong names or spending ¼ of your show pedaling your book, it’s time to go). and Piers Morgan got compared to the acid tongued Simon Cowell. RoundtableTalk Where ambitious leaders meet. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Rajesh Setty

JULY 18, 2013

So, without further ado, here are the 7 elements from my book: 1. Simon Sinek who wrote the book “Start With Why” explains the power of Why brilliantly when he talks about Apple (today the world’s most valuable company) on their quest to always challenge the status quo and how they do it is by building awesome products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.” Ergo: heuristics win.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The companies that occupy the limelight are typically diversified giants that achieve growth through constant expansion into new markets and the introduction of additional product lines (just think P&G, GE, and Microsoft). Quick test: name one company that does one thing and does it very well.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2011

for the first time and spent much of his trip haranguing his adoring American public and the country's book publishers as pirates and thieves. But book publishing survived the shock, and an indigenous American literature, as Dickens predicted, took off. What a shock: the books had illustrated covers! Shock absorbed. Inaccurate?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Production capital took the lead over financial capital and real value over paper value, as Carlota Perez has so well demonstrated in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. Fast forward to today, and the picture is not so happy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities. Economists and market design. But that would be a mistake. What’s the larger point to be made here?

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