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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. McKinsey 2012, Digital and Executive challenges. Let’s be honest. About Mark.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

More than one marketing powerhouse that I’m acquainted with has internal systems and procedures that would amaze you with their ineptness, diseconomy, and resistance to truly fundamental improvement. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). Overcome orthodoxies. Use analogies. Create constraints.

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Innovative Leadership in the Wild

LDRLB

More than one marketing powerhouse that I’m acquainted with has internal systems and procedures that would amaze you with their ineptness, diseconomy, and resistance to truly fundamental improvement. McKinsey Quarterly (free subscription). Overcome orthodoxies. Use analogies. Create constraints.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

In the years that have passed, we’ve continued to expand and refine the list by looking for CHROs able to innovate and outperform their peers regardless of current market dynamics in play at the time. Remember, it’s the people and culture who enable technology and marketing success – not the other way around. ?.

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Find the Best Local Markets to Drive Growth

Harvard Business Review

These super geos were local profit pools that were concentrated and big enough to offer big ROI upside for marketing and sales. Sometimes it’s not immediately obvious why some geographic markets are such big consumers of a particular product. Certain local markets have the right ingredients to ripen demand.

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Morning Advantage: The Sky Is Falling, but the Ceiling Is Fine

Harvard Business Review

GDP growth in emerging markets is slowing. So commences McKinsey Quarterly's report on the firm's latest survey on global economic conditions (which was in the field during the week leading up to the Greek elections). "The euro’s future is in limbo. Uncertainty about sovereign debt threatens economic growth across the globe."

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What the CEO of the “New” Google Needs to Do Next

Harvard Business Review

After stints at Applied Materials and McKinsey, he joined Google just a little over 10 years ago. As he considers his options, Pichai should be careful to avoid traps like incremental sustaining innovation geared toward stemming market share losses by simply adding low value features. Find new growth markets – fast.

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