Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

Several years ago we retained the services of a marketing consultant who gave us some terrific ideas for growing our business. And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Your resume is a marketing document,” says Cranberra-based HR generalist Lindy Graham. Don’t hammer it out in an hour and expect recruiters to call you.”. Marketing Management. Marketing. Resume buzzwords are critically important because that’s where the hiring manager’s attention is most of the time. Account Management.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. Bruce, a Marketing Manager who struggled with detail, flourished as a creative resource. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development. Bruce masterminded the sponsorship of a charitable event – the one in the visual.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 26, 2011

Here is an article written by Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 3, 2011

Here is an excerpt from a profile of Stephanie Niven written by Cleo Thompson (London), founder of The Gender Blog, for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 4, 2011

Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. Here is an excerpt from a profile of Stephanie Ruhle (Managing Director, Reationship Management, Deuts he Bank)written by Melissa J.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

Let’s suppose that the two skills are marketing and storytelling. In the above example, you will see how to move the needle for that person using your core skills – marketing and storytelling. Think about the old adage – “if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

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In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

In a crisis, whether short or long-term, the most senior people in the organization need to step up and offer innovative solutions to the issues hammering the bottom-line. But, these blips have a way of separating leaders from followers. Those who can’t do this are not leaders. At best, they are managers. At worst, they are expendable.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

Hershman and Dr. Michael Hammer. The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Hershman is the Chief Executive Officer of Hammer and Company. About the Authors.

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LDRLB

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

In fact, it was Ronnie who took a sledge hammer to that wall and turned it into rubble. Bruce, a Marketing Manager who struggled with detail, flourished as a creative resource. Ronnie was an organizer – a leader in cultural development.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 13, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. This kind of closeness to customers means the people in the company know customer issues and they can spot changing market needs earlier. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 4, 2019

For example, you need to be researching the market, constantly and extensively, whilst you continuously network with potential investors, walking into meetings with all the right facts and figures in your pocket. And if you can hammer home the use of your business in the current economy in only 30 seconds or less, the more’s the better!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2020

Also, business owners have to carter seasonal demands when they have to hold extra merchandise so that they can meet the market demand. Such incidents are common in the businesses that deal with mechanical tools that include, drill machines, hammers, wedges, saws, glass, and other sharp objects.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 7, 2011

I’ve also written a historical novel, although I’m still trying to find a publisher who isn’t afraid to invest in a newbie, grey-haired writer in a market going through drastic change. Warren Staley (Cargill) supports Habitat for Humanity with a hammer, a saw and a wallet. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist.

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Six Disciplines

MAY 17, 2013

This importance was hammered home to me in a lunch meeting with “Sandy,” who recently moved to a much larger organization. This kind of closeness to customers means the people in the company know customer issues and they can spot changing market needs earlier. She commented, “It’s just not the same. I feel like a number.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. How – This is how the business fulfills that core belief.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Try setting up a tent without the poles.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Sales, marketing automation, and the new telemarketing field, ignore the change management aspect of what buyers must accomplish and instead focus on figuring out how and what and to whom to pitch their solution. We are holding a hammer, waiting for the time when they are ready with a nail. Let me back track a bit.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 19, 2011

“ Addiction Marketing &# is a phrase I started using a few years back while waiting in line for my drink at Starbucks. What Starbucks has done better than many other addictive marketers is that they also make it cool and trendy to succumb to your addiction. By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. Traditionally, entrepreneurs love to talk about their product, but investors need to know about more than just the product - the market, the team, competitors, business model, etc. I call it the killer slide.

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Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. Try building a tree fort with no hammer or nails (not that I’ve done that). Try setting up a tent without the poles.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 27, 2015

Whether that’s market share, souls, or some other metric. As Sam defeated this challenge, he threw one of the hammers at Donkey Kong and said he had been waiting for this moment for a long time. It opened my eyes to another leadership truth. While we have skin in the game, we rarely play all-out. There is something to lose.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

Or, as it turns out, even the vicinity of 1455 Market Street, the address of Uber’s San Francisco headquarters. Merijn te Booij, Genesys’s chief marketing officer, decided to stop waiting for the perfect candidate to appear though established channels.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2011

These men can sling a hammer, but they can also talk about life. I’m not accustomed to working with my hands, but this was kind of fun. The best part was the connections I made with people in my church who worked with me. One on our team is several years older than me. I’m gleaning from him this week.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2011

Decades' worth of academic marketing research has repeatedly shown that price promotions are fraught with danger and are suitable only for very specific purposes under special circumstances. And often steep ones at that. Dholakia is the William S. Mackey, Jr. and Verne F.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

In order to move to Stage 3, the team must hammer out the performance standards and commitment to achieving them. They are necessary stepping-stones in the process that leads to high performance. In the process of development, teams most often get stuck in Stage 2.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. In a timeframe in which mating parts in this car plant could not be assembled without hammers, Pipp directed his staff to purchase competitors cars and take them apart. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

Performance standards hammered out. A lot of internal strife and no sense of mutual accountability. Task driven but a lot of individual agendas. Performance standards are not agreed upon. Stage 3 – Getting Behind the Game. Increasing ownership of those standards. Decreasing hostility as the team begins working out personal differences.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2016

But over the last two years, Daniela Simpson, the director of marketing, helped it achieve 15% revenue growth per year, which is seven times higher than category growth. This is in keeping with the Japanese proverb, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” Consider the SweeTarts brand from Nestle USA.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

As long as we were making, say, good hammers, culture didn't really matter. Most were making hammers, or they were treating more complicated products and services as if they were hammers. This is one of the ways marketers can make themselves an agreeable, respectful presence in our midst. Precious few.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Related: Where There is Fear You Do Not Get Honest Figures – Eliminate Slogans (motivational poster) – Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data – The Defect Black Market. In those cases where the slogan is actually used as a hammer to blame employees when results disappoint is when it does cause damage.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” A major cause of this is that managers within these teams approach the task from their own functional-management view, e.g. finance, HR, marketing, operations. Busá Photography/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to. So the reengineered consumption models of the sharing economy are now well poised to go mass-market, and the battle cries of Hammer and Davenport won't be necessary this time around.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Strategies change, leaders change, markets change and technology changes at a frightening pace. None of those domains remains in stasis over time — strategies change, leaders (and their related passions) change, markets develop, and technologies are created. Failures tend to "fail" or to be abandoned relatively quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 It is true that Kalanick consistently called China the most important market for Uber. Uber truly wanted to succeed in its fastest-growing market, one where taxi drivers outnumber their U.S. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

trillion market by 2020 — lay in its ability to operate with little or no “human intervention.” As cognitive scientists put it things like hammers became a part of the body’s “extended periphery” and are “functionally a component of the [subjects’] smoothly coping IDS.”. So, what might a “handy” IoT offering look like?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2011

That's the finding from our recent research, forthcoming in the Journal of Marketing Research , which reveals a surprising fact about retail assortments: Consumers who are offered a richer array of relevant choices in a given product category grow engaged and interested in quality and are prepared to stretch their budget accordingly.

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