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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Robin Speculand: Leaders across the world have been taught how to plan but not how to execute. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Norton and their Palladium associates.

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How CMOs Can Work with CIOs to Gain Customer Insight

Harvard Business Review

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO).

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How Can You Shield Your Small Business From Disaster?

Strategy Driven

While you can’t completely insulate yourself from every single eventuality, there are steps you can take to ensure that you have the right insight and contingency plans in place should the worst happen. We live in a data-driven society now, and unfortunately the illegal exchange of some of those details is big business on the black market.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Feature prioritization and roadmap planning. Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart. So, what should you consider if you’re thinking of pursuing a PM role? Running design sprints.

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What Investment Bankers Can Learn From Stand-Up Comedians

Harvard Business Review

Look at headlining comics Jim Norton and Robert Kelly. Their material gives the Latino and Pan-Indian markets a voice of pride. Rather, I see three traits in successful comedians that i-bankers should seek to emulate: brutal honesty, vulnerability, and allowing different voices to be heard. Brutal honesty. Giving everyone a voice.

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So Long, Giant Check Ceremony: The New World of Charitable Giving

Harvard Business Review

Say goodbye to the glory of the “giant check” ceremony, the requisite Toys for Tots drop box, and the depressing ASPCA commercials: The ways corporations, marketers, and individual donors are approaching charitable giving is starting to change dramatically — for the better and worse. So that’s another innovation: starting early.

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After Mobility Comes Digital Context

Strategy Driven

Think about the functional, emotional, social, and aspirational jobs that your customer could hire you for and plan, little by little, to do all of them. David Norton, PhD is author of Digital Context 2.0: I say ‘jobs’ because the consumer wants to hire you for more than you think they do. Start imagining. About the Author.

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