Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 4, 2010

 It lets you know their heart is in this business for the right reasons, and in many ways this newsletter reminds me why I started The Rainmaker Group back in 2001: an unwillingness to accept the status quo of today's workplace and an intense desire to make it more inspiring and rewarding for both employees and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

In 2001 it was that the original iPod allowed you to carry “1,000 songs in your pocket.” For example, I worked with top leaders at SanDisk, the flash memory company, to prepare them for a major financial analyst conference. At 77 characters, the Google pitch makes the grade. ” Apple still uses this strategy today.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Coincidentally, the director of the IBM project is named David, like the astronaut in 2001. The movie was Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Despite its infamous financial chicanery, it still appeared to be a viable, profitable firm.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 29, 2012

I squeezed work into every crack – joining a conference call while preparing breakfast, responding to email while my children played, and preparing program materials after they went to sleep. Although I didn’t include “write a book” in my 2000 or 2001 goals, it was still on the wall embedded in my 1999 goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

There are a myriad of African business conferences, but even the largest of these pales in comparison to the scope and visibility of this event. In the race for opportunity and influence in Africa, no competitor looms larger than China, which has increased its total trade with Africa twenty-fold since 2001. How the U.S. Can the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2012

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. I then worked to transfer my virtual connections into the real world — ideally, at a conference or networking event.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

He was speaking at an HBR Brasil conference on Brazilian competitiveness, and his message was pretty gloomy. since 2001 — which lends a helpful perspective to the often downbeat discussion over the economic future here: In fact, productivity growth has been outstripping wage growth in the U.S. The lines are flatter in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

eBay, for example, rapidly built leading positions in its core marketplace business from acquisitions in Germany ( Alando in 1999 ), much of continental Europe ( iBazar in 2001 ), South Korea ( Internet Auction Co., also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ). Once a copycat succeeds, U.S. eBay was trying to achieve two things.

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Globalization First-mover Advantage Retail Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

At a ThirdPath Institute conference a few weeks ago, a great discussion arose around the fact that workloads tend to ebb and flow, and it’s important to know how to alternate between periods of peak effort and recovery. I loved the term so much I jotted it down, thinking I might make something of it in my writing and consulting.

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Training Sports Stress Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001. Am I utterly confident in that prediction after four days in Shanghai and just 10 total in China? (I

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2016

” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. ” His Box 2 speech had an impact within Elfun and its turnaround became a symbol of transformation for GE as a whole: “…Today [2001] Elfin has more than 42,000 members, including retirees. .”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

magazine, speaking at major conferences, and advising the White House on innovation. In March 2001, Groysberg writes in his case study, NBC's Today show had a rash of guest cancellations due to a snowstorm. Other times, the explosion onto the scene is fast and furious.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Tina Brown of Newsweek/The Daily Beast is one of those people, but far more important, as Stephen Marche pointed out on Esquire.com , are the conference organizers who are pay Ferguson $50,000 to $75,000 to entertain and edify a hotel ballroom full of business types about " Chimerica " or " the six killer apps of Western civilization.".

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Once investors stopped giving it free money, the company quickly cut back on its investments and its losses. After that the No.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. “We need to make some major changes with urgency and a depth of purpose. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

In 2001, when I was interviewing laid-off high-tech workers, many were frustrated that schools were still telling students that they needed to choose a single career. That needs to change, and I see three main ways forward. The first concerns how we teach young people about work and careers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. I was a speaker at 2008’s Fortune 500 CEO conference and listened with interest as BCG presented the findings of a study conducted in partnership with with the European Association for People Management.

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Management Uncertainty Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

A few electrical issues in the spa and conference center, but nothing to worry about.". Now let's see the conference center. Since 2001, when she'd arrived at the company, she'd turned around two hotels. Spas, conference centers, pools, casinos. "Palma Cay's first month," he said. How is it going?". Historical, modern.

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Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. At a meeting shortly after in the director’s conference room back at Langley, we asked a roomful of top-ranking Agency officers, “Who here is in charge of finding Osama Bin Laden?”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Trade ministers of the World Trade Organization (WTO) will meet December 11-13 in Buenos Aires for their eleventh conference to review progress and set the agenda for global trade negotiations. solar-panel startups. Without the facts, other members and their injured industries cannot challenge subsidies that violate the rules.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In 2001, Jonah Peretti had an e-mail exchange with Nike that went viral on the Web. He was fascinated and, a year later, he met Duncan Watts at a conference. Yet all is not lost. There is a way to consistently increase the likelihood of viral chains. The two struck up a friendship and then a collaboration.

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Influence Marketing Katz Media 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year, Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani asked this question to a group of conference attendees. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006.

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Software Company Competitive Advantage Henderson 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

One of the things that people don’t recognize is I made a speech in 2005, my last speech at the Jackson Hole conference , in which I was afraid to put a line in, so I put it in somewhat Fed-speak. The dot-com boom when it collapsed, you can’t find it in the GDP figures in 2001, 2002. It didn’t happen.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

In 2001, with Case Western Reserve professor Richard Boyatzis and U.Penn faculty member Annie McKee, he explored the contagious nature of emotions at work, and the link between leaders’ emotional states and their companies’ financial success in “ Primal Leadership.”

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