Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

I N BUSINESS, as in sports, the aspect that distinguishes the best teams from the mediocre teams comes down to collaboration. Too often, managers put their heads down and focus only on their own departments. Let’s apply the team sport analogy further. Doing so creates agility.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” In business, your competitor is the enemy. Like a sports scorecard, competitive spirit demands measurement and accountability of performance.

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Power Sports Competitive Advantage Advertising 208

Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  Here are my picks for the week of October 25th - 31th, 2010.  Enjoy! Michael Haberman, HR Observations : "Hire Attitude vs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

If companies can’t attract, engage, and retain the right talent, they’re unlikely to achieve their business objectives. ” This emphasis on the collective distances Adidas from Nike’s more archetypal sports obsession with individual winners.

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Globalization Brand Survey Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2011

Feed it with content that touches consumers' passion points like sports, music and popular culture. Similarly, "linked" content is content that is linked to our brand strategies and our business objectives. Be a facilitator who manages communities, not a director who tries to control them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Management has long called for sales and marketing to bury the hatchet, but the requests often lack urgency and are generally met with indifference. Successfully challenging customers' thinking is a team sport. Strikingly, across several hundred sales and marketing responses, a full 87% were negative. That must change. Sound familiar?

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Marketing ROI Short-term Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2015

GDP than the air transportation, motion picture, sound-recording, performing arts and spectator sport industries.” Three of five marketers use no tools to measure event ROI, and most companies plan and execute events without specific business objectives. There’s not just one rationale for events.

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