Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Entrepreneurs willing to invest the time and effort into satisfying the most valuable component of their business are setting themselves up for long-term success. But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention.

Quality 182

Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Three additional points to consider (I love tracking these): 1) Leadership challenge with SP: “Many people regard execution as detail work that’s beneath the dignity of a business leader. Ryan received his B.S.

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Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 104

Coaching Tip

MAY 31, 2011

He consumes art and music at the rate he does books, but unlike most critics he doesn't sniff that markets have either ruined culture or brought it low. In 2002 he published Creative Destruction , which argues that globalization created much of the art and music we might consider "native."

Globalization 84

Globalization Crisis Creativity Short-term 84

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 2, 2010

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. Successful businesses adapt to market innovations and thrive, while those that fail to make iterative leaps fall by the wayside.

Media 382

Media Blog Tools Influence 382

LDRLB

JUNE 14, 2011

SP is necessary, but only successful when linking the long-term strategic priorities to today’s actions. Three additional points to consider (I love tracking these): 1) Leadership challenge with SP: “Many people regard execution as detail work that’s beneath the dignity of a business leader. Ryan received his B.S.

Strategic Planning 74

Strategic Planning Planning Ryan Covey 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2011

But even so, they led their companies to great long-term financial performance. What then were the leadership characteristics that separated the winning leaders from their industry peers? Markets down? Market hype? Their experience can guide leaders who now must lead in today's disruptive world. Competition severe?

Skills 15

Skills Leadership Airlines Long-term 15

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Examples could come from art, comics, film, music, architecture, economics (weird black markets), music, media, etc… Creating opportunities for team members to communicate and share both creatively and intellectually improves team communications and fosters innovation. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 10, 2017

How as a leader do you rate yourself in terms of communication skills? In a 2002 survey of 1,104 employees in organizations around the United States, 86% said their bosses thought they were good communicators, but only 17% said their bosses actually communicated effectively. Magnetic leaders communicate frequently and clearly.

Tips 182

Tips How To Open-book Consultative 182

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2012

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Others are investing for retirement or to pay for a child's college tuition, and care about long-term returns.

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Short-term Long-term Objective Customer Loyalty 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

In fact, I see at least six ways in which your organization, whatever it is, is like the 2002 A's, who won 20 games in a row and made the playoffs—though not the 2002 World Series —despite a very low payroll. The change to an emphasis on analytics will require strong leadership. You can count on opposition.

Company 12

Company Supply Chain Competitive Advantage Film 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2012

But in a world in which bringing managers in every year for a week of offsite training is so 1960s, how do you make the leadership development process relevant to the global economy? Randy MacDonald: "We observed that 80% of leadership development is based on work experience. Fostered global teamwork.

Globalization 15

Globalization Human Resources Diversity Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. In 2002 Palmisano succeeded a legendary leader in Lou Gerstner, who saved IBM from being broken up and put it on a viable course. Directness.

Globalization 15

Globalization Golden Parachute Short-term Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2013

Or at least the market''s. Then there''s JC Penney, where Ackman''s push to remake the retailer under the leadership of former Apple Stores chief Ron Johnson has ended in red ink and recriminations. It is of course a bit disturbing to see that five years is now considered the "long term." But he''s doing God''s work.

Hedge 8

Hedge Short-term Long-term Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

To be clear, this tendency to focus on exploitation and not exploration may even be welcomed by some investors who value predictable short-term returns from reduced costs and investments, increasing dividends and share buybacks. This has long term consequences: these “exploiters” significantly underperform their exploratory peers.

Company 8

Company Succession Maturity Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Unlike most rankings, it was based on a systematic analysis of stock-market performance among nearly 2,000 CEOs of the world's largest companies. That's almost 14 years as CEO — a long time, considering that the average CEO tenure for large U.S. Market Capitalization increase during tenure: $341.5 million, a 35.4%

CEO 13

CEO Collins Long-term Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Exploitation allows companies to monetize their exciting new ideas and thereby relieve some of the stakeholder pressure for short-term earnings. Visionary leadership is also about helping the company overcome inertia so that it can shift effectively from one frame of mind to another when the time comes.

Innovation 8

Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Or, do we now see the need and importance to embrace longer-term approaches? The term CEO has recently been held in disfavor. Yet, most CEOs were never trained on how to be CEOs, with all the responsibility, people skills, leadership and ethical management that must go along with the job. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

Ethics 59

Ethics Cost Crisis Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

They were signing a peace agreement to end the long-running conflict between the Colombian government and the guerrillas. Many of those who opposed the deal were against two of its terms. It was also a leadership clash between two political figures with different proposals for the country, and with their own vanities.

Politics 9

Politics Leadership Tourism Long-term 9

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I did a quick Google search for the term business coach and received 116 million returned results – if that doesn’t scare you it should. As someone who has worked with managers at all levels since 2002, coaching, mentoring, guiding, providing advice, facilitating conversations, creating space for reflection.

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Blog Mentor Advice Brand 385

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

They pointed out that we were a very young company, but our market value was $45 billion—more than the entire U.S. In 2002, we had an offsite strategy session, and we had some consultants come in. In 2002, the worst-case models showed we’d still have over $1 billion in revenue. Leadership' automobile industry.

Industry 8

Industry CEO Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2015

In 2002 I worked with a client at a large global electronics company. The result: Market success for the product and the company was purchased by Google for $3.2 Another client introduced a connected product that required the user to go through a long set up process, including setting a clock. billion in 2014. Fix or kill?

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Long-term Marketing 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

Executives never stayed long. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Accounting.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57