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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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Candidate Management During a Crisis

N2Growth Blog

In order for companies and hiring executives to maintain the reputation of being an employer of choice with their most important candidates, they must be empathetic about what those people are going through and keep the process moving towards an outcome ( hire, pause, or pass ) wherever possible.

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Why do nice companies finish first?

Lead on Purpose

When you’re in the service business, reputation is everything.” Oscar Wilde. Leadership Product Management / Marketing customer service optimism reputation' “I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.” Walt Disney. Kenneth Chenault. Warren Bennis.

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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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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” Even early in his career, he possessed those qualities, and his reputation only grew throughout his lifetime.

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Is It Fun Being Led by You?

Lead Change Blog

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. We all went to school on how the Japanese transformed a rotten “made in Japan” reputation synonymous with junk into one that represented the pinnacle of zero defects products. I knew his reputation for being a bit of a wild man. Forestry Service.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Yet it can be shattered in an instant, with a devastating impact on a company’s market cap and reputation. Is it wild to give away free peanuts and rolls and keep prices low, even as costs rise, or to keep the menu basically the same since it opened? Because isn’t it a little unusual for a company to do almost no advertising?

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