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What Not to Do When Business Sours

In the CEO Afterlife

In terms of rectification, you have to look at the issue in the context of whether the problem is a short-term blip or the beginning of a long-term shift to your business or industry. It may seem so at the time, but a price squeeze from oversupply and weaker demand is not game-changing stuff. This is panic.

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The ?M? Word: A Company's Most Underrated Intangible | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • November 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Life , Marketing , Strategy • 0 Comments. But unlike finite measurements such as sales, market share, profit, stock price or market cap, momentum remains an intangible – a powerful one. Human Resources. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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How to Ignite and Sustain Organizational Growth

Skip Prichard

Yet, without the right culture, organizations cannot succeed short term, nor can they endure. James Heskett and John Kotter found that organizations with strong corporate cultures realized over eleven years revenue growth of 682 percent, employment growth of 282 percent and stock price growth of 901 percent. Culture Spark.

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Strategy for Non-Strategic Leaders

In the CEO Afterlife

When I was on the ‘hot seat’ and in the line of fire as a CEO, I constantly dealt with pressing day-to-day issues such as bringing in the quarter, forecasting erratic commodity markets, reacting to predatory pricing, and stressing over sales shortfalls and excess inventory.

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Title Liberation

N2Growth Blog

If you go to the bank, your are more than likely to run into the CEO, the General Manager, the Chief Risk Officer, the Chief Human Resources Officer, the European CEO, the Country Director, the Vice President, the Senior Vice President, and the Executive Vice President. Pretty clear. But its much more complicated these days.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The tactic that works best to defend or build share in the short term is price cuts or special discounts. The 100% boundary can get crowded and those obsessed with winning or defending their territory often resort to non-strategic tactics. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. The new economy doesn’t operate that way.

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Culture Doesn’t Trump Strategy

In the CEO Afterlife

If these opportunities lead to a better bottom line and a corresponding stock price hike (even in the short-term), they must be good. This creates frantic searches by leaders and managers for any and every opportunity that might yield a new source of revenue and profit. . or so the saying goes. Strategy is Constraining.

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