In the CEO Afterlife

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The Paradox of Two Guitar Companies

In the CEO Afterlife

They are global, they are successful and they have become the quintessential icons of pop music. As for the executives who run Fender and Gibson, I’ll give them this: These folks are the luckiest global brand marketers on the planet. King live on. I'm a Fender guy but I've always secretly yearned for a '59 Les Paul.

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The Most Overused Word in Business

In the CEO Afterlife

” Deciding to become a global corporation, to diversify, or to increase sales by x dollars per annum is not strategy. Booz & Company’s survey of 3,500 global leaders, including 550 CEOs and 325 other C-suite executives report a serious lack of cohesion within their organizations. Such aspirations are goals or objectives.

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A Salute to Book Bloggers

In the CEO Afterlife

More importantly, the rise of Amazon and the decline of bookstores has sent the conventional global publishing industry into a financial tail spin. Look at it this way: publishers would rather release the next John Grisham legal thriller than take on an unknown author.

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The Genius behind Toblerone | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Here’s a rather fascinating little anecdote about a very famous global brand, Toblerone. The Genius behind Toblerone. by John • April 18, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. Everyone likes to hear a ‘tale out of school’ or a bit of ‘inside information’.

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Beer Branding: Image is Still Everything

In the CEO Afterlife

Locally and globally, maintaining resiliency of a beer brand is as exciting as it is challenging. Many years ago, I had the opportunity to work for InterBrew (now AB-InBev) in a strategic consulting capacity. But once your brand is on the outs with the prime target group, cardiac arrest sets in.

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What Makes P&G Great?

In the CEO Afterlife

I could talk about their brands, their global clout, their sales growth or their stock market value. The mystical factor that distinguishes P&G from everyone else is people. From 1837 to the present, P&G people have been the company’s sustainable success factor.

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Why Uncontrollable Factors are Norm to Great CEOs

In the CEO Afterlife

The Conference Board suggests that the pressure of serving as the CEO of a large company in an increasingly competitive global marketplace has resulted in more voluntarily shorter tenures, implying that CEOs are leaving on their own terms after fewer years on the job. This is a case of “jump” before you are “pushed.”.

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