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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Aicha Evans – Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Intel Corporation. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former President, Amherst College.

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To Grow Your Business Abroad, Partner with Local Influencers

Harvard Business Review

They spend their days developing new content — videos, photos, blog posts, and podcasts — and engaging their followers. They build active communities both online (on different platforms) and offline (at events) around seemingly any topic imaginable — everything from beauty to AI to e-sports.

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CEOs Need to Get Serious About Sales

Harvard Business Review

It's not enough to set budgets and set goals. When tracking trends for future growth opportunities, for example, invest real money (2 to 4 percent of the sales budget is good) to develop analytical tools and teams that monitor trends such as demographic shifts, regulations, and new technologies. Make sales a team sport.

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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change. It must be marketing. Develop—and stick to—a marketing blueprint. Who should lead our transformation?

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How the Best Global Employers Convince Workers to Join and Stay

Harvard Business Review

It then provides tailored content related to 10 of its core functional areas, including Research & Innovation, Sales & Business Development, and Operations. ” This emphasis on the collective distances Adidas from Nike’s more archetypal sports obsession with individual winners.

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Making Sense of Owned Media

Harvard Business Review

Marketers often distinguish between paid, earned, and owned media. While the strategies are different, the goal is the same — to generate awareness and engagement. If you want to get ahead, and stay ahead, you need to rethink your owned media strategy. Owned media can be used in B2B as well.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

Intuit develops financial and tax preparation software for small business, accountants and the general public. Their goal is to make accounting, simple. Nike is known for linking the spirit of American pop culture to sports by capitalizing on the public’s idolization of athletic heroes. But Intuit isn’t a small business.

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