In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 20, 2011

by John • July 20, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing • 2 Comments. You may want to call yourselves ” Twain, Rogers, Sawyer and Finn, Inc.”…. When you start giving lip service to this being a “creative agency” and stop really being one. Main menu Home. Leadership. About John.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. For example, if it was innovation and creativity that brought revival, chances are high that innovation and creativity will remain a cornerstone of their corporate culture.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Creative Conspiracy: The New Rules of Breakthrough Collaboration Leigh Thompson This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking John Brockman, Editor Unrelenting Innovation: How to Build a Culture for Market Dominance Gerard [.].

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

” Will Rogers. The following concepts do not constitute Futurism by themselves: sales, technology, re-engineering, marketing, research, training, operations, administration. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. From 1958-1982, I produced many entertainment documentaries for radio, comprising anthologies of pop music.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

When human learning slows down, people tend to lose creative and problem solving capacity. The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” Thought leaders like Christensen, Roger Martin , Michael Porter , and Steve Denning have all argued that shareholder value has been exposed as a flawed paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

Consider, first, rampant excesses in a most unlikely part of the financial scene — the market for microcredits to the world's poorest people. Can you distinguish between genuine creativity and mindless imitation? Which raises the biggest question of them all: Why do so many smart people keep doing so many dumb things?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What’s more critical to producing a breakthrough innovation – finding creative people or finding creative ideas? Coming something of a full circle, Intuit has famously instituted a process to teach everyone to think as creatively as the talented professionals of Pixar, Dior, and IDEO. This astonished Catmull.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2017

In the early days of my marketing strategy consulting business, when I had clients on retainer with whom I met every week, an in-person meeting took a full half-day: 90 minutes (with occasional spillover), plus 45 minutes of travel time on either end. Roger Schwarz. How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2012

Soon consumers will be able to: (1) control the flow and use of personal data, (2) build their own loyalty programs, (3) dictate their own terms of service, and (4) tell whole markets what they want, how they want it, where and when they should be able to get it, and how much it should cost. by Bill Lee. by Donald N.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

I also argued that capital markets regulators are much more lackadaisical about protecting the game that has been entrusted to them — and they should learn a lesson from the NFL before their game is irreparably damaged. This is why the contrast between the capital markets reaction and the NFL reaction is both so stark and so sad.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2011

Call it "creative destruction" if you want to. We want two distinct views of the world — emotional reflexes and tool kits for problem solving — and by wanting both we test the problem of what Roger Martin calls " the opposable mind." The landscape is littered with companies that didn't make it. Or just call it "destruction."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. The application was one of the first marketing campaigns that allowed interaction with a digital model in real time. Aside from complex technological advances (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2018

Whether it is rivalry between people (Bill Gates versus Steve Jobs; Roger Federer versus Rafael Nadal), between organizations (e.g., For example, the rivalry between the Beatles and the Beach Boys is thought to have pushed both groups to greater levels of creativity and performance in their song-writing. Rivalry is everywhere.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2012

Breaking down silos and decision-making hierarchies, understanding customers better, bringing products to market faster — these are imperatives for many companies today. Second, Edmunds.com employees had plenty of creative ideas for improving the site but no standard system for evaluating and implementing them.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. ” Creative Sequences. Instead, the company called the new iPad just that: “the new iPad.”

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. The right settings in which to showcase the product.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

For C1400 this is not a style as much as some areas for reflection ( they call it a “code&# ) and are Awareness, Focus, Creativity, Integrity, Perseverance and Service. In today’s blog post I’ll attempt to paint the portrait of the perfect leader… So, what traits would my perfect leader possess?

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CO2

JULY 11, 2012

I really had to work to get my business through marketing and advertising. I had to get creative. I used social media to market my business along with local coupon companies that offered online coupons for short periods of time. by Roger Rankin | Submitted Jun 05, 2012. Sixth Place: Teacher.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2011

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. Creativity. To one, it may be a rare painting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We are told that digital locks and DRM protect creative content and the creative-types who make it. But here’s where it really gets interesting: Keurig’s competitor, Rogers Family Company, capitalized on the DRM-debacle by giving away “ Freedom Clips.” And the list goes on. DRM pisses people off. (I,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Creative and sci­entific work has migrated to teams and, more recently, to large, distributed teams like the hundreds of scientists that worked on the human genome project. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The article shocked the sensibilities of many who worried about rising corporate power in the world, but for many executives struggling to chart courses through the chaos of newly globalized and deregulated markets, it offered an irresistible clarity: one need only focus on owners’ interests. As a result, a new era is emerging.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Each branch makes its own loan decisions, sets its own pricing on loans and deposits, controls its own marketing budget, runs its own website (on a shared platform), and serves all customer segments — from individuals to multinationals — within its catchment area. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

Confused as to why P&G has suddenly been deemed a dog by pundits and analysts, while Unilever held up as a poster child, Forbes blogger Steve Denning called up Roger Martin , Dean of the Rotman School of Management. But we know you're smarter than that, so you have two choices: avoid committing fraud or don't talk about it.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2011

Richard Florida's path-breaking idea of creative capital is deeply eudaimonic — because creative capital intensive outputs (like great art, books, gyms, and meals) are expressions of living better. Who are the progenitors of eudaimonia, its spiritual and intellectual forefathers, pioneers, and champions?

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