Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress nicely and if you want to, add an element of flair to your wardrobe — a scarf, a sharp tie, a cool belt, cool shoes. I wore what they wore — sharp shirts and expensive slacks. How To Be More Productive When You Work From Home. What did I do? I watched what all of my superiors were wearing — and guess what? Smile or Die!

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Review Performance Review Ethics Teamwork 105

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The tick of every sale quickly contributes to a pattern revealing how the marketplace is receiving our products at every given moment. To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 70

N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. It was exactly the simplicity of their business model and their product that made them into the company that they are today. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. Enumerate your interpersonal skills alongside strong business achievements and clinical experience.

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Tactics Execution Pharmaceuticals Human Capital 55

Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

You can spend all the time in the world on strategy sessions, competitive plans, innovation , and product development, but it all falls apart if you don’t have the right talent. Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Hire the Best.

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Sports Definition Long-term Quality 104

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Design and re-engineering of products-services. Each product-service is budgeted. Marketing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Being sharp means being succinct. Practice pitches and product or service descriptions. Rehearse your pitch.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” ” is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 57

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." is a positive, productive question that we should ask ourselves each day. Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. How do we make our strengths stronger?"

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Depreciation B2B Price Crisis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

The innovator's quest has been to find the win-win proposition: a great new product that can create differentiated value for consumers while supporting differentiated profits for the producer. In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market.

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Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. Meet regularly to review common customer issues and build fixes into your product roadmap.

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Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Position yourself in market segments that will grow. The recession eliminated some market segments and redefined others. This is the time to revisit the market spaces you occupy and position yourself to ride the uptick. Market growth has shifted to the US, and change happens faster than ever requiring smooth coordination.

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Budgeting Market Segmentation Venture Capitalist Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is where the leadership principle of authenticity comes in. Complexity turns people inward and distorts information flow, slowing the pace of decision-making down and making the decisions themselves increasingly incoherent.

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Self-aware Goleman Emotional Intelligence Competitive Advantage 15

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

You need to set some ground rules and establish a usage policy, or perhaps end up scratching your head about the productivity declines. And be careful with the sharp end Maybe that falls under your second point. Ben, it is certainly a tool, and yes, it can have a sharp end! And you’ll eat a lot of mighty fine chocolate….

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Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

In a series of experiments conducted in Texas and Singapore, scientists put financially literate people in simulated markets and asked them to price stocks. They may also encourage greater scrutiny of each member’s actions, keeping their joint cognitive resources sharp and vigilant. Other studies have yielded similar results.

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Diversity Team Price Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

They listen to their best customers — something we did religiously at Medtronic — making increasingly complex products to meet those customers' most sophisticated needs. This process of "disruptive innovation" enabled new competitors to create entirely new product categories.

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Disruptive Innovation Christensen Telecommunications Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

As a VP of sales and marketing for Becker-Birnbaum International, a global consumer products company, Aliyah knew she needed a talented marketing director to support her division’s portfolio of 34 products. Sharp, clear answer , Aliyah thought. Aliyah liked Molly and respected her work.

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Case Study White Paper Analysis Brand Management 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2011

By my reckoning, Ben Horowitz is the most thought-provoking blogger on leadership and strategy today. And as one of the earliest product managers at Netscape, he was present at the creation of the dotcom boom. He's also a lot more than a blogger. billion, he built a track record as a hands-on executive. Of that I'm not so sure.

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CEO Venture Capitalist Sharpe Environment 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? You're fired.

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Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 20

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Being able to discern and debate subjective positions with objectivity is an art form that must be present for effective leadership. Understanding and respecting other’s perceptions is such a critical part of being an effective leader that absent this ability I truly believe you cannot be effective in a leadership role.

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Blog Gordon Learning-by-Doing Open-book 419

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At PepsiCo, we’re leveraging design to create meaningful and relevant brand experiences for our customers any time they interact with our portfolio of products. This applies not only to the current portfolio of products, but also to PepsiCo’s future portfolio. There is a scientist who tells me the blade is not sharp enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

he was decrying the sorry state of leadership, not asking about particular places. Leaders don't have the luxury of a sharp boundary between their public actions and their private lives. When former auto executive Lee Iaccoca titled a book, " Where Have All the Leaders Gone ?" Leaders are always on.

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Contingency Plans Sharpe Bond Planning 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

We confirmed this observation by developing a database of all public companies in the global stock markets and tracking their performance over 25 years. Many businesses lose this sharp sense of purpose as they grow. This is why only 13% of employees worldwide feel any personal engagement with their work at all.

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Company Venture Capitalist Long-term Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2015

In traditional marketing communications, a well-informed brief will shape a human-driven strategy and insight-guided planning process. Chief marketing officers and their teams contemplate and shape the brand attributes that best define the relationship between a product or service and its customers. Marketing strategies.

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Media Advertising Audience Technology 8

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only one sure fire litmus test for measuring leadership success, and to the chagrin of many reading this post, it has little to do with what happens on the job. Being a leader at home requires a different set of learnable competencies.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 414

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

There is indeed a stark, sharp, gigantic trade-off between meaning and money in our so-called brain-dead shell-game Ponzi-scheme of an "economy.". Take it — and then damn your first year's bonus, make your first major project redesigning a product line that matters. Is there a trade-off between meaning and money? You're fired.

Sharpe 8

Sharpe Follow-up Short-term Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2017

She drummed her fingers on the editing desk and squinted at the monitors in front of her as she scrolled through footage from the season finale of Dope , her production company’s long-running drama series about DEA agents. The market is shrinking—and getting more fragmented—but the revenue for your shows is going up.

Case Study 10

Case Study Succession Long-term Delegation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor might have been a protest group, but it operated as if it was a startup company marketing a product. As Nocera pointed out, “Occupy protesters were purposely — even proudly — rudderless, eschewing leadership in favor of broad, and thus vague, consensus.”

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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Tacit Knowledge Long-term McKinsey Venture Funding 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The team then turned to the product line.

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Company How To Business Model Engineering 8