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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Women on Business

MAY 30, 2012

Guest post by writer and online marketer Monica Crowe (learn more about Monica at the end of this post). Over marketing, otherwise known as hype, is high on the list of those fatal flaws. Don’t confuse marketing with hype. Marketing is using a well crafted, refined message, while hype is excessive and exaggerated.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 3, 2023

In 2023, the labor market was a wild rollercoaster ride for both employers and employees. The labor market was cooling down, and the winds of change were blowing in a different direction. It seems that even with the desire to scale back, employers are still at the mercy of the labor market and its skills shortages.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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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CEO Insider

JANUARY 3, 2020

With its very much engineering-like traditional educational system, with dozens of thousands of highly educated and very sharp-minded people getting to the “wild” market of the 90s, it was obvious such a talent capital […]. Even back to 2010, Ukraine was already known for the Development talent it has.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In fact, if they have different products and different target markets, they should be wildly different. Measuring the whole gives you a finger on the pulse of the market, seeing the trends from the customer’s’ point of view that can help you decide on which new stock might work best for the business. Work to your product.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 3, 2023

The labor market has been pretty loose since the 2008 financial crisis, with this underpinning a considerable rise in credentialism that has seen employers demanding four-year degrees for even entry-level jobs. With the labor market tightening, it’s clear that such alternative routes are urgently required.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 3, 2023

The established cloud company trumpets AI solutions for new marketing efficiencies, yet their clients can’t quite grasp how these efficiencies will be captured. While the strategic imagination can run wild, the greatest danger is to not run it at all.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 23, 2017

Group ‘A’ blames their weaknesses, the market, their age, other people, and how customers demand so much more. Be Bold In Life – Start taking chances — not wild-ass ones, think about your next steps and then move! Group ‘B’ fights their big fears every day, dismisses the weak ones, and gets s**t done.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2017

It was the sidearm of choice for Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Buffalo Bill Coty, “Bat” Masterson and Wild Bill Hickok. Sam Colt was a marketing genius. Colt pistols were advertised with the revolver being used on wild animal hunts or against bandits. Wild West performers sported Colt pistols.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Cooking might not be your thing, but maybe you’re incredible at leading strategic meetings, designing marketing plans, building teams, or keeping finances well above board. Vans is way more than just another shoe company; it’s a worldwide influencer that’s still striking a chord with up-and-coming generations.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 12, 2015

It certainly might look like that, especially in the wild San Francisco Bay real estate market where housing prices are at an all time high and competition is fierce. You might think this has become a transactional world, where important decisions are made solely on the basis of price.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 1, 2012

In my blog of last week, entitled A Monster of an Idea , I gave kudos to the Monster Beverage Corporation for becoming a ridiculously -profitable, high-growth $2 billion dollar enterprise despite ignoring the Holy Grail of marketing commandments. A market did not exist for his brainchild; Mateschitz believed he could create one.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 29, 2022

While I have been notably skeptical about the various claims that robots and AI will destroy vast swathes of the jobs we know today, there is an understandable concern about the impact technology is likely to have on the labor market, and especially about how one can go about making our own job as disruption proof as possible.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

No new idea comes formed ready for delivery to the market. Nobody has ever shown they have infallible, let alone reliable, instincts for anticipating how customers and markets receive new ideas. The reason new ideas are not a slam dunk success story is because you still have to package, market and sell them.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As a founder of BrainTrust, a successful organization that trains and develops sales and marketing professionals, Jeff Bloomfield has given a lot of thought to why customers say yes. In Story-Based Selling: Create, Connect, and Close, Bloomfield says it’s really no mystery. People buy from people they trust.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 24, 2020

General expectation setting and maintenance is paramount to any recruitment process and especially so in a tumultuous market environment. The first step to great candidate management is thinking about what he/she is going through psychologically and emotionally at any point in the interview process.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 6, 2014

An experienced marketing executive, successful entrepreneur and author, Joe is recognized […]. In an age of shrinking attention spans, non-stop interruptions, and a flood of information, the messages business leaders send out are getting lost in a sea of words.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Military veterans were included in the list, who the researchers said were often frozen out of the labor market as a result of hiring practices that overlook them or diminish the experiences they bring to the table. “By They included people with mental health difficulties, a criminal record, or disabilities.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies. Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 6, 2014

Steve’s fresh, provocative approach to marketing, […]. Management guru Tom Peters said, “When Steve Yastrow writes, I pay close attention,” and called Brand Harmony “compelling and powerful,” and We a “superb book.”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 3, 2013

After graduating in PPE from Jesus College, Oxford, David Wethey joined AC Nielsen in 1965, where he presented Marketing Research to leading marketing companies. However, the London agency world beckoned and in 1968 David joined Pritchard Wood (the birthplace of account planning).

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 19, 2014

He has published extensively on the successful leadership traits of CEOs of mid-market companies. Rob Sher is founding principal of CEO to CEO, a consulting firm of former chief executives that improves the leadership infrastructure of midsized companies seeking to accelerate their performance.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 8, 2013

Dorie Clark is a marketing strategy consultant and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

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.” I MAGINE that this is your situation: Your young company is a raging success.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 31, 2013

Oscar Wilde. Leadership Product Management / Marketing customer service optimism reputation' “Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.” Warren Bennis. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” And from the author himself: “Lesson number one: it pays to be a nice guy.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 25, 2015

He also has responsibility for the Center’s marketing and outreach on both the SDSU campus and in the San Diego community. Bernhard Schroeder is the Director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the undergraduate and graduate experiential entrepreneurship programs on the San Diego State University campus.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Eric Koester, Zaarly’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, provides great tips to any new start-ups in the early stages. Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar. We are successful with team-building, thoughtful management, partnership building, and market savvy. Here are three tips you may want to follow. Great Clips.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

Take, for example, Jerry Rubin, the one-time wild-eyed Youth International Party revolution-jockey and anti-establishment provocateur. Whatever; the new brand didn’t stick: by the 90’s he was promoting snake-oil life-extension strategies and multi-level marketing.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 28, 2014

As a founder of BrainTrust, a successful organization that trains and develops sales and marketing professionals, Jeff Bloomfield has given a lot of thought to why customers say yes. In Story-Based Selling: Create, Connect, and Close, Bloomfield says it’s really no mystery. People buy from people they trust.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 6, 2022

In a few short months their high-growth market sharply reversed direction at a dizzying rate. He told her of similar market downturns he’d lived through and the sleepless nights he’d experienced as his life work and life savings hung in the balance. ” Julia was exhausted. Revenues had plunged off a cliff.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 8, 2014

Patricia Nolan-Brown has been inventing and marketing problem-solving products for more than 22 years. She is the author of Idea to Invention: What You Need to Know to Cash in Your Inspiration (AMACOM, January 2014.) She also teaches an online self-paced class consisting of 20+ short how-to videos via Skill Share.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 12, 2020

What is clear from the data in these sectors is that a relatively small number of highly competitive firms have dominated each market. Instead, it’s changing primarily at those businesses that have come to dominate their respective markets, and because those firms are dominating their markets, it’s shifted the entire economy.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Albert Einstein American University Association of Professional Futurists Bibliomotion Booz & Company Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Business Week Crain’s Fast Company Forbes Fordham Universities Fox News FutureThink Harvard Business Review Idea Crossing’s Innovation Challenge Institute for Triple Helix Innovation Institute (..)

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 13, 2014

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

DECEMBER 13, 2014

His life’s work has focused on the market dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations. His first book, Crossing the Chasm, 3rd […].

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