Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

To illustrate the potential impacts, in 2007, Nokia had a little over half the mobile phone market with an operating profit of about $7.8 Subsequently, its market share plummeted by 90 percent. Nokia just couldn’t keep up. Its phones were quickly viewed as antiquated and difficult to work with for developers.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. Like Mark Zuckerberg, who built a site only for college students, we are looking for a small, protected market that you as an entrepreneur, can dominate. Why does it need to be a small market?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The four elements in the diamond collectively specify the opportunity : what the venture will offer and to whom; its plan for technology and operations; its marketing approach; and how the venture will make money. Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. . Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. False Starts.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

William Ammerman states in The Invisible Brand , “ AI will play an increasingly important role in our lives in the years ahead as marketers turn vast amounts of computing power to the problem of influence people’s decisions.”. Indeed, broadly speaking, everything we do is marketing. ).

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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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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2021

Grow selectively (that is, where they can claim profitable market share) and in ways suitable for the local environment, not everywhere all at once. Leading-edge firms are using asset-light, digital, or e-commerce-centric business models to enter into new markets and expand rapidly. Strategy #4: Engineer an Ecosystem.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.”. But to the portfolio manager, that response reflected a terrible mindset, whether on the road or in the market: a sense that the world is acting on you as opposed to your acting on the world.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Reconfigure for evolving markets. From Estée Lauder’s William Lauder and Fabrizio Freda, we learned to partner for change to open new channels for marketing products before traditional avenues close off. Accelerate your flywheel for growth. Mobilize and engage holistically. Take a learning sabbatical. Partner to lead change.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: If all options appear to be equal, get more information. Lesson: An expert isn’t always the person who knows the most.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

VCs are trying to determine whether this founder will be able to create a compelling story around the company mission in order to attract great engineers, executives, sales and marketing people, etc. Market Size. They want to know the process. The idea or product also must be significantly different to move people.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The boom-bust cycle, therefore, isn’t inherent in the market economy but instead is a consequence of the Federal Reserve intervening in the short-term money markets ostensibly to stabilize the economy and promote economic growth and full employment. If history is any guide, it could last until the end of the 2020s.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2019

How true disruptors use innovation, including digital, to grow the market and create new business models. Or else, you took on the hard work of growing the entire market. It can drive new business models, open up adjacent products and help you grow the whole market. You took away share from competition or they took it from you.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This is the responsibility of leaders, not marketing or the communications department. We’ve heard it said that the difference between a vision and a hallucination is the number of people who see it. A leader’s job is to unite his or her associates by helping them all see the same thing.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We will instead show the market what we’re made of.”. How can you differentiate and elevate your organization to gain advantage and increase market share? Assess the market. Where will you see profitable openings in the market? Where might you lose market share in the face of an economic downturn? Assess risk.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In Covert Cows and Chick-fil-A , former executive vice-president and chief marketing officer, Steve Robinson explains that for Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A, the most important phase in the purpose statement was, “ by being a faithful Steward.” The stewardship idea guides their marketing. It’s about relationships.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The best capacities of an earlier time thus remain informative but also incomplete for the challenges we face ahead.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Wright Thompson on doing the work: “More and more today, we don’t want to do the work or take the chances required for greatness, and we try to fix all those shortcuts on the back end with marketing and branding—modern, fancy words than mean lie.”. Source: Pappyland: The Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

He’s achieved extraordinary success and emerged as one of the greatest marketing minds of our time by doing things differently. The Diary of a CEO : The 33 Laws of Business and Life by Steven Bartlett Steven Bartlett has never been one to follow conventional rules. But there is a method to his maverick style.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

They say business leaders tend to “underestimate Africa’s size and potential as a market, and overestimate the challenges of doing business there.”. Africa is the next growth market. Authors Acha Leke, Mutsa Chironga and Georges Desvaux of McKinsey and Company, take a different view in Africa’s Business Revolution.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

If you’re exploring a new market to enter, data can provide you with potential projections about sales and give you an idea of the type of customers within this market. Data can help you speed up these decisions and ensure that you’re making the correct choices. The quality of your decisions and the speed at which you make them matter.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

But it only intensifies something we were already seeing in the world of work: organizations need to adapt constantly to keep up with market dynamics. Unfortunately, this can take a toll on employees if businesses focus on efficiency but don’t create an environment where people feel they belong.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Managers keep score of a range of business metrics: market share, revenue, profit margin, growth rate. The Score That Matters : Growing Excellence in Yourself and Those You Lead by Ryan Hawk and Brook Cupps People love to keep score. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2013

This is a post by Brian Sheehan, author of Loveworks: How the World''s Top Marketers Make Emotional Connections to Win in the Marketplace. You can become a Lovemark. * * * Brian Sheehan, author of Loveworks : How the World''s Top Marketers Make Emotional Connections to Win in the Marketplace , is Associate Professor of Advertising at the S.I.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

I N MY THIRTY YEARS as an executive coach, I have seen a lot of change — the complete digital transformation of the workplace, increased diversity of the labor market, the shifting role of employers. But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Taking multiple steps to iterate a prototype before declaring readiness to go to market may feel like a slowdown. But in fact, chunking down the work into iterative cycles can compress the time it takes to get to market with a product or service that works, and that people really want to own and use.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

His new book is Sentient Strategy: How to Create Market-Dominating Strategies in Turbulent Economies. Through his consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., he has worked with more than 500 leading organizations, including Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, The Federal Reserve, and the New York Times Corporation.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Culture serves as the internal compass for an organization’s fundamental beliefs, how the organization behaves daily, and its level of market performance. To begin, let’s look at the five most common roadblocks that stop us in our pursuit of cultural excellence that Mayberry addresses: 1. Lukewarm leadership buy-in.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Badaracco says that the inescapable pressures of leadership are intensified today because of the market-driven world in which we live. Almost everything—how we manage our organizations and our lives, how we make decisions at work and at home, and even how we think about ourselves—is deeply shaped by markets and market-based thinking.”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Large to small, in fields from construction to tech to health care, they win hearts, minds and wallets by innovating ways to stay the obvious choice in the market. By adding digital without compromising the quality of the 160-year-old brand, Burberry regained market superiority in the new retail economy. Embrace disruption.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2020

Why Generic Marketing Won’t Work during #COVID19 Crisis by @DebbieLaskeyMBA. No Brilliant Jerks: How to Deal with Maverick CEOs by Rob Shelton And Marc J. eBook: 8 Recession Leadership Pitfalls: How Can You Avoid Them? from @KotterInc. How Our Values Will Shape Our “New Normal” from @JohnBaldoni. Overwhelmed?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Tech start-ups define success, especially in the first decade, on how well they acquire customers, build capability, and penetrate their emerging markets. If someone impresses you when they are benefiting from good markets, you still don’t know much. That wasn’t how GE had traditionally defined success.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 10, 2010

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Then there are the social entrepreneurs where the donation is a marketing expense that drives growth. About two-thirds of the businesses owned around the world are owned and operated by families, and in America, “family firms constitute over half of the businesses in the country and half of those listed on stock markets.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Let me begin by stating that authentic thought leaders, the real deals, are not created via great marketing and PR alone. Their work is widely regarded as being innovative, disruptive, and market altering. They are not spin masters trying to make it, but are the undisputed market leaders that have already arrived.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 15, 2021

Indeed, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the two cofounders of Google, are the only two individuals publicly talking about strategic control points in interconnected markets. All of this requires thinking many steps ahead. They clearly get it. Think ahead.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

He is director of the CAA Group of Companies, an adjudicator with the Capital Markets Tribunal, and from 2015 to 2019 was a commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc.,

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lead Through Anything provides simple, tested and actionable strategies to help you continually level-up your impact as an individual, manager, and leader.

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