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Trusted Leaders Build High-Trust Cultures

The Practical Leader

Among the twelve actions for rebuilding trust: be a role model, encourage cooperation, resolve conflicts, strengthen communications, give honest feedback, coach and mentor, be open to new ideas, and stay focused on the big picture. Building a high trust, high energy, and higher performing culture has many moving parts.

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Leading Those Who Don't Want To Follow | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

If opposing views are worth the time and energy to debate, then they are worth a legitimate effort to gain alignment on perspective and resolution on position. I believe leaders need to recognize this point to avoid allowing one individual to take away too much energy from the broader team. Thank you for sharing Mike!

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Five Challenges Facing Marketing

Harvard Business Review

The marketing field is faced with several challenges that for many firms will require a transformation in its capability and charge. First, marketing needs to lead in substantial or transformational innovation that will result in new offerings that will define new categories or subcategories. Among them are the following five.

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Case Study: How to Integrate an Acquired Brand

Harvard Business Review

Henry Beyer walked up to a Mini Cooper in the city parking lot across the street from his office in downtown Houston. He waved his brand-new VillageCar card near the door handle and got in. "It The two were executives of Beacon Car Rental, one of the industry''s most established and respected brands. He laughed; Henry grimaced.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

At Cabot Creamery Cooperative, we’ve seen firsthand that combining corporate self-interest with support for social and environmental issues is not a costly distraction. Yet, when the marketing team suggested that Cabot become a certified B Corporation, I was skeptical. Why did we need an outside certification?

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We Can't Agree to Disagree

Harvard Business Review

The parallels to business are likely obvious to you, but let's just complete the picture: Between the creation of a new idea and that idea becoming a new market reality, many different decisions and actions need to happen. Alignment matters because it decreases the amount of energy it takes to go from A to Z.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. And she put marketing in charge of an organization-wide growth program. Who should lead our transformation?

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