Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Our careers are a means to an end and if we’re lucky, it’s a means to happiness and joy because we love what we do! How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? So why am I writing about these two subjects as if they’re interchangeable? Because I believe they are. Interesting thoughts.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

This book highlights Paul’s significant experience in a 40-year career of managing people and as a well-respected consultant to managers and their organizations across the globe. Readers of this post are entitled to a 10% discount off the cover price if they contact Paul at PaulK@MidwGroup.com. What are the 8 skills?

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Skills Books Blog Mentor 181

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2015

We also know that private equity funds have outperformed public equity markets over the last three decades , even after the fees they charge are accounted for. ” PE firms typically take three types of value increasing actions — financial engineering, governance engineering, and operational engineering.

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CAPM Discounted Cash Flow Company Rate of Return 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

HBR: Companies have two options to meet talent shortages—they can look to an external labor market, or they can focus on developing their internal labor market. There’s only one CEO of each of our careers—ourselves. An edited version of our conversation follows. Which is proving more popular at the moment?

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. In fact, this stock market bellwether had just beat earnings estimates by 6%. But match, or barely beat expectations, and the market yawns, or worse, dumps the stock, as it did with Cisco. The problem?

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Many new international competitors were taking away market share. They also felt they were operating at cross-purposes every single day. Many were feeling disconnected, discounted and undervalued. I’ve been a business leader and leadership consultant for most of my career. They felt rudderless.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

One of the first, and most lasting, pieces of career advice I received came from Linda Bush, my first project manager when I was a wee pup working at McKinsey & Company. Which customers can’t participate in a market because they lack skills, wealth, or convenient access to existing solutions? Speed alone is insufficient.

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Innovation Disruptive Innovation Learning-by-Doing Participative 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

One act plays have their place in theater, but are generally not a desirable descriptor for a career or business. Take Costco, the super successful warehouse store that operates under the shelter of the umbrella corporation called simply COST or even Sam’s Club as well, the similarly modeled business arm of Walmart.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Home-based businesses are a great way for busy people to take more control of their careers , but starting your own business can be intimidating. Being a consultant for an established company is a great way for individuals to build career skills while maintaining control over their success.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

John Lees, the UK-based career strategist and author of How to Get a Job You Love , agrees that it’s important to do further “due diligence” on the company and its people to make sure it’s a place you want to work. .” “Is it market factors? ” Then “just chat. And what gets in the way?’”

How To 8

How To Incubator Due Diligence Case Study 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2019

This can be particularly effective if you are scaling into areas with less competition as it can be much easier to dominate the local market. It is also worth considering your product range and seeing if there are any gaps in the market that you can fill. Ramp Up Marketing. Diversify Product Range. Form A Strategic Alliance.

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Industry Customer Loyalty How To Loyalty 51

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you’ve been fired, getting back into the job market can be difficult. It’s natural to feel slightly paranoid, says John Lees, UK-based career strategist and author of The Success Code. “Candidates don’t want to hear this, but often they go into the market too soon,” says Lees.

How To 8

How To Letter Learning-by-Doing PR 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In other words, when youve been chatting with Bill every night at the local pub for twenty years, you probably know whether his note is a good bet or not (and further, just how much to discount it to earn a sustainable and fair return, that neither fleeces Bill, nor robs you).

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The results were amazing. That’s the power of shrinking to grow.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

If you think I’m going to list of a bunch of product bargains or discount sales, think again. The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. I spent an entire career espousing the power of creativity, and the companies I touched did very well by it. Creativity.

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Bureaucracy Constraint Creativity Discount 245

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. With Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita and Ian offer managers everywhere a time-tested blueprint for planning and executing a strategic growth agenda with confidence – in any market.

Innovation 50

Innovation NPV Business Model Constraint 50