Coaching Tip

JANUARY 26, 2013

The company says it does 200 million consumer transactions a day. But despite that reach across civilization and into customer pockets, Mars is among the most secretive, insular, and little understood multinational companies around. It is still 100% family-owned -- now by the three elderly offspring of Forrest Mars Sr.,

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 4, 2021

They’ve seen them wrestling with children, in trying to manage personal and professional challenges at home, more Zoom gaffes than we can count, etc., which has given employers a deeply humanistic view of those they manage. Sometimes the amazing people key to your launch don’t scale in step with your company.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

More companies will hire for soft skills and culture fit. . Some companies, particularly start-ups, will not even consider hiring an employee full-time, before s/he has completed at least six months as a contractor. This strategy has many benefits for people and companies. We are beginning to see that taken to the next level.

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CEO Blog

JUNE 3, 2012

John Travolta said no to Forrest Gump , and Gwenyth Paltrow told James Cameron that The Titanic , was not her cup of tea. Running the Gauntlet is a personal recommendation by the former Chief Marketing Officer of Kodak, Jeffrey Hayzlett, on how company “change-agents” should strive to lead, drive change, and grow profits. Probably not.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

It’s often the reason behind why people choose to stay with your company over jumping ship to a competitor. No one (besides Forrest Gump maybe) meanders their way to success. Harris is Associate Vice-President and Country Manager for Allergan PLC in Brazil. Below, allow me to present three of my favorites: 1.

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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. Facebook's growth comes at the expense of companies such as Yahoo and AOL Inc., of the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

The questions I get from management about social applications are varied. Are we the only company that hasn't gotten started with social? These social applications are springing up all over the company. How do you manage all this? How can we prove to management that all these social applications are paying off?

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Technology Management Forrester Maturity 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

“Death of a B2B Salesman,” a new report from Forrester Research , lends urgency to the need for companies to rethink and radically transform their sales models by incorporating digital media into their processes. Contrary to what these findings — and Forrester’s prediction that “1 million U.S.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Emily Forrester: Workiva’s values-based culture is really what drives our success as an award-winning place to work. When you uphold company values in everything you do – from how you make decisions to how you communicate with employees, you build a lot of trust. What skills do the global HR managers of the future need to acquire?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Sales reps, according to Forrester , tend to prioritize a sales agenda over solving a customer’s problem. If organizations don’t change their outdated thinking and create effective sales models for today’s digital era, Forrester warns that 1 million B2B salespeople will lose their jobs to self-service e-commerce by 2020.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In today’s rapidly changing business environment, companies that rely solely on full-time employees are finding they have neither the skills nor the agility to sustain success. With those gaps, companies must now focus less on the fixed supply of in-house people and more on the capabilities they need to get work done.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. She'd worked for her company for a dozen years and was regarded by her boss and her peers as a good performer. As a result, many companies cut costs in those areas, just as they outsourced manufacturing decades ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2018

Digital natives who grew up with the Internet and smartphones have transformed the way B2B buyers research purchases, qualify vendors and make purchases—changing the rules of the game for marketers and product managers. Contacting a salesperson occurs later in the typical purchase process, and sometimes not at all.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2014

In too many companies, IT leaders, relegated to their cost centers, are subordinate to other C-level executives. In other, more forward-looking companies, the situation is radically different. An early mover was Forrester Research, which appointed Steve Peltzman CBTO in 2011. I’m not responsible for ‘just’ IT,” he says.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2011

For example, consider a manager in a company that fortuitously entered a growing market just at the right moment. This manager appears successful and is rewarded with several promotions into the senior ranks. Let this manager encounter a problem, and his or her true abilities will emerge to be tested.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

The customer's voice has a new champion sitting at the highest levels of power in companies. Who are these new customer experience executives — and why do companies appoint them? The majority are internal hires who have a significant history at their companies: median time at their firms is nearly eight years.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

If you’re a business leader looking for an opportunity to have real impact on your company — and position yourself for the top job — which career path is best? Lucia Luce Quinn is Chief People Officer at Forrester Research. It was vehicle for changing the growth trajectory of the company.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Few see it as the most important issue to their company's future. And that attitudinal difference — an important thing versus the only thing — is the difference between companies that will survive and thrive in the next five years and those that will not. Few companies are prepared for this kind of customer.

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Engineering Forrester Software Mass Marketing 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Yet, Intel Security’s 2016 Report states that among companies experiencing data breaches over the past few years, insiders were responsible for 43% of data loss, half of which was intentional and malicious. As Forrester’s July 2016 Hunting Insider Threats report states, “Insiders are people, not computers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

While most executives are pros at managing change, digital transformation is a much deeper change than the usual process or system update. Most companies target digital transformation and end up with digital upgrades, using digital technology to increase efficiency or effectiveness at something your firm is already doing.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

And while these companies were the first to acknowledge the business benefits of delivering a great customer experience, business-to-business (B2B) organizations are increasingly getting in on the game. These customer experience management initiatives can be complex.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

By Matt Lawson, Managing Director, Ads Marketing at Google. Does Your Company Have a Data Science Strategy? But companies that look at data channel by channel, in a silo, can miss the forest for the trees. From the moment smartphones touched human hands, they began to change how people interact with brands.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

According to Forrester’s Global Business Technographics Workforce Recontact Survey 2017 , just 30% of global information workers at healthcare providers indicated they’ve received training on how to protect workplace data, and only 38% are even aware of their company’s security policies.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2012

This idea is supported by Forrester Research, which found that 65% of high-level decision makers give their business to the company that creates the "buying vision," versus 35% who acknowledge putting candidates through a fair-and-square "bake-off." To Build a Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager. MORE ON SMARTER SALES.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Forrester Research estimates that Amazon loses between $1 – $2 billion on Prime annually, presumably this loss figure does not take into account the marketing benefit of higher sales. For such a cutting-edge company, it’s disappointing that Amazon views pricing as a simple “up or down” lever.

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Library Price Forrester Wilde 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

When teachers or factory workers go on strike, they're hoping to remind management of the value of their expertise. Why Big Companies Can't Innovate (HBR.org). The European Data Protection Act (Forrester Blogs). "Often overlooked when things work as they should," the value of expertise is back in the spotlight, argues Weber.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2014

Forrester Research’s Henry Dewing says some enlightened users are beginning to prefer to meet in their video and web conferencing platforms instead of in a physical conference room. Setting ground rules for managing virtual communications. Aligning personal and professional goals. Setting Ground Rules. Creating Candor.

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Team Conference Forrester Bond 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

” Companies measure the market results of their sales investments. But few have measures or even have accountable managers in place for their social media investments, and only 7% say their organizations “understand the exact value at stake from digital.” ” Meanwhile, according to a Gallup survey , 62% of U.S.

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Media Advertising Public Relations Forrester 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Managers at the aerospace manufacturer wanted to make faster decisions for one of their big clients — NASA — by finding alternatives to the high volume of meetings and cumbersome spreadsheets used for tracking projects. If a company cuts wait times in half, it can gain more than $370,000 annually in productive time across a 25-person team.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

DECEMBER 21, 2009

o) Reply Gwyn Teatro December 22, 2009 at 5:18 am Hi Forrest! Leadership News LeadershipNews: Check out Great Leadership by Dan blog post on new CBS show "Undercover Boss" [link] LeadershipNews: An insightful post on new research showing that companies' sustained high performance may simply be luck. Cookies huh?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

James McQuivey, principal analyst and vice president at Forrester, suggested that executives should sit up and pay attention to HoloLens. As an executive, you care about this because in Forrester’s Technographics survey data, there are 7.2 This one comes to mind.). Is there any reason for them to pay attention to HoloLens?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2011

Apple's stores in general, and its Genius Bars in particular, have become an oft-cited example of the lengths to which companies are going to improve the customer experience. Over the next month, HBR will examine this topic — how managers are turning their companies into customer-focused organizations — in depth.

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