Women on Business

JANUARY 10, 2011

Some of the writers pointed out that these were two different sports and couldn’t be compared. Whether it’s the style of play in a sport, or leadership style in the business world, men and women are clearly and obviously different. A lot of people said a lot of pretty dumb things. Can’t we all just get along?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete. All three of these individuals have had a profound and positive impact on those individuals and organizations which they have led.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. Recently I spoke to a group of high-school marketing educators about the current state of social media marketing. Thanks for adding to the discussion Becky.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

The only exceptions I’ve witnessed that contradict my observations mentioned above are situations where a purpose-aligned execution based on the desire to give selflessly in service exists. However, even in these circumstances personal leadership is still at the forefront of the success.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. I have witnessed otherwise savvy executives place the need for emotional superiority ahead of achieving their mission (not that they always understood this at the time).

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Teaches leadership to executives and emerging leaders around the world. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Global Debt Registry (MHR). Corporate Executives. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Non-profit CEOs.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 12, 2011

Tanya currently writes about leadership, in sport, work and life on Elevati’s Blog at www.elevati-inc.com/blog. include: MacDermid, Sanofi-Aventis, Mattel, Fisher-Price, Raytheon, USDA, Catalina Marketing, Nielsen Media, Starbucks, Fortune Brands, U.S.C., Clients served through TalentSmart® and Elevati, Inc. Tanya holds an M.A.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Nothing signals leadership trouble more than an executive who can’t make decisions. I’m always amazed at the number of senior executives who really struggle with even simple decisions…This next comment might hit a bit too close to home for some of you, but I’m hoping it may help bring you back to reality.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. These are all useful things to do, and successful executives invest time in them periodically. Don't get me wrong.

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Chris Brady

JUNE 24, 2010

  Yaobang had been a popular figure among students andintellectuals, standing for the concepts of free markets and democracy in acommunist nation.   An unknown number of others were laterrounded up and executed.   An unknown number of others were laterrounded up and executed.   We know hewas courageous.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Metaphors from nature, sports, and travel are very useful to generate repurposed solutions. Investigate those doing what you want to do.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2016

The first company is Porsche, which in the early 2000s launched the Cayenne sports utility vehicle — a vehicle very different from the high-performance sports cars for which it was famous. In the late 1990s, Porsche avoided bankruptcy by making its manufacturing more efficient and its sports cars more reliable.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. The resulting spike in both supply and demand for movies has created fierce competition for financing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.". Be proactive.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2011

If you ask managers to name their favorite sport, you'll hear a wide variety of answers: Football, baseball, tennis. But what they won't tell you is the one sport that all managers play the most: The Game of Reorganization. As one senior executive said to me, "Every time we reorganized, we lost at least a year of innovation.".

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. Rather than incremental change, they wanted a true paradigm shift, so the group tapped me as Machine Shop’s Executive Vice President. I met the band at this inflection point. Photo by Lorenzo Errico.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

In my early years as an executive search consultant in Argentina, I was frequently asked to hire senior investment bankers. While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. Citibank and J.P. How ambitious is your team?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

That means these firms and a lot of others are at a serious disadvantage relative to competitors with the resources and expertise to mine data on customer behaviors and market trends. Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, the company seeks to make data science a sport, and an affordable one at that.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

Others have argued that executive education programs are likely to be disrupted , as companies weigh the savings they could achieve by directing executives to MOOCs instead. At Wharton, nearly 20% of the annual revenue comes from executive education, while at Harvard Business School 26% does, and at IESE, it is nearly half.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2015

It has long been widely acknowledged that legal skills are broadly applicable to all kinds of careers: business, politics, finance, even sports coaching, fiction writing, and journalism. Execute fast. Few people or organizations can match the speed with which a newsroom and its reporters can execute.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But it was crystal clear who’d made the negative comments in the assessment of one executive. Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. This had been a running joke among Barker’s executives for years. Nina laughed.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

But it is also a complex market, with a reputation for corruption, uncertainty, and bureaucracy. Ravi Venkatesan, the former Chairman of Microsoft India, offers inside advice on how your firm can overcome the unique challenges of the Indian market. The old way to market a business was storytelling. by Thomas H. by Thomas H.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

Instead of thinking about driving value from the perspective of IT, or HR, finance, sales, or operations, leadership teams will think about a problem they want to solve or a process they want to change, and then align the full breadth of services (IT, HR, operations) needed to accomplish it. Reinventing Corporate IT An HBR Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This is also true of executives. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. ” Of course, being too adaptive can also hurt tactical performance. Previously, working in the call center was a solo sport.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

As a marketing and special events coordinator for an outdoor sports company in the Bay Area, she’d worked hard for months to prove herself worthy of a promotion. Eight months later, she landed an executive administrator role that expanded her duties outside of marketing. Case study #1: Proactively build your skills.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2017

Whether you’re a mentor to a medical resident or marketing manager, the same principles apply. We offer here an informal set of guidelines for good mentorship — a playbook, if you will, for a game that is very much a team sport.

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