article thumbnail

Don’t Overlook These Valuable Details Before Launching Your Business

Strategy Driven

To become a successful businessperson, you have to get many things straight even before launching the company. If you want to avoid making the same blunder, ensure to pay attention to the following factors before commencing your business: Define your marketing strategy. Marketing is the lifeblood of a business.

Webinar 118
article thumbnail

Beauty Marketers: Best in Class | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Beauty Marketers: Best in Class. by John • August 15, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. The piece described a passionate marketing company who has believed in the power of advertising and branding for most of its 100 years. well, the marketer better be a disciple of the Church of Brand. Leadership.

Class 122
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

Great Leadership By Dan

In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. GE’s commitment to the succession process not only identified Jack Welsh, but all of his predecessors as well. Challenges for Mid-Market Companies.

article thumbnail

Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Human Resources.

Mentor 228
article thumbnail

Who is the 21st Century CEO?

In the CEO Afterlife

Proactivity is the secret to long-term success. That’s because success for Page and Jobs hinged on the strategic choices they made – primarily which products and applications to bet on. Those who get to the future first, are the ones who win. Apple has been adept at the vision game for a quarter of a century.

CEO 242
article thumbnail

Culture Doesn’t Trump Strategy

In the CEO Afterlife

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. In the new economy, culture is the poster child of corporate success. The truth is that one success factor needs other success factors to be effective.

Strategy 100
article thumbnail

Four Questions to Ask Before Scaling Your Business

Strategy Driven

Question 2: How large is the target market for your solution? While each entrepreneur needs to answer for him or herself the question: how large a market needs to be to be worth their attention? The entrepreneur may be smarter about a given solution, but the market is always smarter about their problems.