In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 23, 2011

by John • May 23, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 3 Comments. Ironically, a great slogan’s constraint to longevity can be the boredom of the marketer. Marketers like change, but often they make change for change’s sake. I suggest the slogan has become generic to the market. In the CEO Afterlife. Leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Electronic medical records add extra work hours to most physicians’ days due to unfriendly user interfaces and lack of interoperability, putting information management on the list of their responsibilities. His life took a turn in 2004 and he “managed to taper off the drugs.” Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

How, then, do I maintain a robust network of people who continue to like and care for me, as well as a list of referrers who literally feed me by sending me leads, partnership opportunities, writing positions, and paid gigs? Marketing dollars to establish a relationship only go so far until actual relationships become more important.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. He received a Master of Business Administration degree from Kennesaw State University in 2004. Complimentary Resource – Chief Marketer. StrategyDriven Welcomes Lucas D.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Known as a maverick, he often “got in trouble” with chain management for his innovative ideas and promotions. TXRH, at the time I’m writing this, has enjoyed 32 consecutive quarters of positive comparable restaurant sales growth. The Managing Partner at each Texas Roadhouse has an ownership interest in their restaurant.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Women may make up more than half the workforce 1 but continue to be significantly underrepresented on corporate boards and in C-level executive positions, according to a major new study released today by Calvert Investments, a long-time leader in advocating for corporate diversity. Krumsiek, President & CEO of Calvert Group, Ltd.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Today’s consumers now have the ability to watch and respond to every brand’s move – positive or negative. Santander has also done a good job at leveraging its promising position, by embarking on a number of aggressive acquisitions since 2008. which resulted in an increase in brand awareness of 72 percent between 2004 and 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2013

Earlier this year, I received some lessons on what wins in frontier markets from former Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell. Young markets need a long investment horizon," Neville told me. He''s a firm believer that many US firms struggle in frontier markets because they''re compelled to a short term view. You''re wasting my money''".

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures make up one of those variables, provided they average at least one deal per year in a program that cumulatively amounts to more than 30% of a company’s market capitalization over 10 years, with no single deal being more than 30% of market cap. Take marketing giant WPP.

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

When I logged into the site for the first time in the spring of 2004, I was prepared to hate the service. While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Venture investors look for home runs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

If you’re one of the many managers out there who must negotiate with companies in China — the world’s largest emerging economy — you probably need to change your approach. Buying Smithfield allowed Shineway to sell pork in the Chinese market at a premium price. Access to mature global markets. Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

And last year, he decided that the answer was to take the company private, to escape the hectoring of the public market. Competitors like IBM and Compaq struggled with the politics of managing their various channel partners and lagged Dell in inventory management. For more background on the potential deal, click here.)

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Embedded sustainability efforts clearly result in a positive impact on business performance. ” Improving risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

We studied the German mobile-handset market during the feature-phone era of 2004-2008 — a dynamic period in which competition was about equipping devices with new functions such as photography. Samsung, a classic pioneer in the handset market, also had a successful year in 2006. Asking too many questions can slow you down.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2013

In both C suites and boardrooms, discussions about business performance usually center on topics like market momentum, M&A opportunities, capital management, and productivity enhancements. We also shrank the corporate management team by half. Role model positive attitudes and behaviors. This also means valuing integrity.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2011

Searching for an untapped market? In 2004, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a performance of the modern classic 4' 33" by John Cage , a composition famous for its counterintuitive focus on the sounds of music not being played. I sometimes ask the executives and managers I coach to do something similarly counterintuitive.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2012

This was the headline finding of a recent study (PDF) by the American Institute of CPAs and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. In short, it is their primary management system. When Charles "Chuck" Schwab returned to the helm to turn around his troubled financial firm in 2004, for example, he installed such a system.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2015

And building a strong employer brand first became a major focus of activity between 2004 and 2008, when in response to the growing competition for talent, leading companies like Unilever , Shell and P&G began to apply the same focus and consistency to their employer branding as they applied to their corporate and consumer branding.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

"A general who fears to unsheathe his sword is not a good general," says Mr. Li Jiaxiang , Chairman of Air China from 2004 to 2008 and the #1 performing corporate leader in China according to our new ranking (just published in the Harvard Business Review China and the centerpiece for the magazine's launch events in Beijing and Shanghai).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2018

The Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984 (and amendments in 1988 and 2004) called for government agencies such as NASA to support the development and growth of commercial space. First, the frontier technologies that NASA needed were not already available on the market; they had to be developed from scratch by specialized contractors.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense! Change management Leadership' Their game is baseball, my game is change.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. In India there''s Flipkart , in Russia there''s Ozon , and in Thailand, Indonesia, and other South East Asia markets there''s Lazada. In some cases this is true.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Large companies rarely face this growth killer since most of them maintain deep cash reserves, have access to the financial markets, and possess the financial discipline to react long before a crash. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. firm in 1989.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Consider the soul-searching that must have gone on at Merck in 2004 when its management finally made the decision to remove Vioxx from the market. All this brings us to the one aspect of the ignorable moment that is, for a strong leader, positive and priceless. Crisis management Ethics Leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

billion from 2002 through 2004. Although it expanded into new markets, these moves were based on the company’s existing knowledge: Cisco’s storage-area network products were modified versions of its routers, and even its move into consumer wireless internet relied on mature Cisco technologies. Take Cisco, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Once the book had been written, I had to market it. And, since innovation was on everyone 's mind, I was soon also working with chief innovation officers and heads of strategy, business development, and emerging markets — anything that required innovation. So, not surprisingly, I frequently get asked just how I did it.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2012

As a corporate leader, you have already contributed value by building successful businesses, bringing innovative and high-quality products and services to market, and creating jobs. What I heard surprised me, and may surprise you too: Fred Steingraber (Mayor of Kenilworth, IL and former CEO of management consultancy A.T. Regrets? "

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

These were all true of Charlie, a champion I met in 2004 just as the tech world was beginning to show signs of life after the dot com implosion. Other champions hope to use the deal to improve their company’s competitive position within an industry. Advancement. These champions strive to improve their own career prospects.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2012

There's this complaint: 'I'd love to think and manage for the long term, but Wall Street won't let me.' Meanwhile, from 2004 to 2009, emerging economies accounted for almost all of the world's GDP growth." "On the national level there's sense that if we're not producing more GDP, we're losing a competition of some kind," says Chris.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

For instance, the average transit times to move containers from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to Chicago grew from 84 hours at the end of 2004 to 120 hours by early 2015. For example, one possible strategy is building dominant share positions with those customers who value faster, more reliable responses from their suppliers.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Norway was the first to adopt a quota for female board members (40%) in 2004. Growing Recognition that Market Forces Won’t Fix the Problem. Market forces won’t make it happen.” Women represent 50% of the workforce, 30% of managers and 4% of top leaders? That is positive. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2013

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data.

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