In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 17, 2011

by John • July 17, 2011 • Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. This is the break from day-to-day operations; it is the organization’s future. A company with differentiated branded consumables would likely measure market share, brand awareness, brand image, and margin development. July 18, 2011 at 11:32 am.

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JANUARY 11, 2011

Categories : Businesswomen Bloggers 4 Comments 1 Tweets that mention There’s Still Time :: Women on Business -- Topsy.com January 11th, 2011 at 1:07 pm [.] 2 Kelly Evers January 12th, 2011 at 1:51 pm Great blog! Kelly Evers, founder of [link] 3 Sheri B January 16th, 2011 at 11:55 am Thanks for the 21 day plan. Not to doing.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Chief Executive An online magazine written exclusively for chief executive officers and their peers. ** N2′s Top pick for C-suite insights and information. CFO.com Web magazine targeted to senior financial executives. magazine’s offering of information, products, services, and online tools for business or management.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time. .

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Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

 He is struggling to understand why it is that HR is not considered a core function of a an organization like sales, marketing, or operations when it is afforded the opportunity to "direct, deliver, and develop" the employee talent necessary for the company to achieve its goals.  Why?  Why?

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Bob Smith (not his real name), source of the quote and Chief Operating Officer at Otis Elevator, knows that elevators tend to remain well under the radar screen until they break. sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Recent data has shown the top 1,500 companies worldwide increased their R&D by 12 percent in 2011, as they have identified the need to maintain their edge in their respective industries. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

It was Andy Grove the former Chairman and CEO of Intel and Time Magazine’s 1997 Man of the Year who said “You have to take action; you can’t hesitate or hedge your bets. A close examination of truly great leaders will reveal that, to the one, they all have a strong bias toward action.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Some tentative conclusions: There is not much of a market for stand-alone strategy studies any more. McKinsey teams are beavering away in places like the United Arab Emirates and the 'Stans — Turkmenistan, say, or Tajikistan — but they're as likely to be doing operations projects as pure strategy work.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 21, 2011

The modern corporation that has evolved as a result consists of many specialized functional departments, such as sales, engineering, marketing, manufacturing, operations, and finance. Getting a 50,000-foot picture of our operations illustrates outdated, cumbersome, inefficient processes. All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

They line up to buy their daily inventory of newspapers and magazines from 15-odd distributors, all located in a dark lane outside the nearby New Empire Cinema. the crowd has vanished, and if you walk past the theater during the day, you will most likely miss the nerve center of magazine and newspaper distribution in Mumbai.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

by John • October 17, 2011 • Branding , Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 3 Comments. Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the 2011 branding world is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

I'm not sure Godin's work classifies as leadership…though I do read it every day, it's more for marketing tips and deep thoughts. link] Adi Gaskell [link] is a blog on management and leadership from various authors from the Chartered Management Institute and Professional Manager magazine in the UK.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 19, 2011

A Boomer’s Advice to Marketers: Go Ahead, Make My Day. by John • June 19, 2011 • Life , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Today, we represent a marvelous marketing opportunity. We operate by the mantra of “use it or you lose it.” Aha,” say the savvy marketers. June 21, 2011 at 5:57 pm.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Not long ago, I had the pleasure of visiting the resplendent headquarters of Hearst Corporation, the privately-held media empire that owns Good Housekeeping magazine — and its famous Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval. Seeing this, it seemed no exaggeration that the magazine can claim "an illustrious history of consumer protection.".

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. It's not to create more jargon, it's to emphasize a point: that social is more than the stuff the marketing team deals with. Mass markets were a convenient fiction created by mass media. They get it.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. To that end, we must continuously achieve superior financial and operating results while adhering to the highest standards of business conduct. June 22, 2011 at 2:28 am. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

Several years ago, a friend had come to me with her dream: She wanted to start a magazine. The magazine got off to a great start: it was written up in the New York Times , circulation after a few months reached 100,000. I wasn't going to do this to our business partner and friend with her magazine dream.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

In a previous piece I discussed why some AR apps are destined to be forgotten as gimmicks, and what mistakes marketers should avoid when trying to deploy them. They designed a printed magazine ad of a model BMW Mini, which, when held in front of a computer’s camera, also appeared on the screen.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

A lengthy New York Times Magazine piece describes how the Obama administration put too much faith in policy and gave too little attention to politics: Most of all, [Obama] has learned that, for all his anti-Washington rhetoric, he has to play by Washington rules if he wants to win in Washington. and public opinion.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Case in point – there was an article in one of Canada's national magazines which pointed out how “there’s likely an “Asian ceiling” at elite U.S. Unfortunately, though, it would seem that the majority of businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations have yet to recognize this truth.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

The author’s Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine’s history. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

SAS – Providing organizations with THE POWER TO KNOW ® SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

With the plethora of reading material on the market today it is not a simple thing to make sure that you’re covering all the bases in a time efficient fashion. It’s much easier to have your reading material in one completely portable, digitally organized reader than it is to go old school and tote your books and magazines with you.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2010

Are you absolutely sure every employee in sales, production, operations, marketing, etc., ▼ 2010 (108) ► December (9) 70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders A Maxim For Leaders For 2011 Resolve To Find A Mentor In 2011 Great Year-End Advice For Leaders Ask Your Customers To Help You Write Your Strategi.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2011

In the first quarter of 2011, industry-wide book sales were down 2.5% The company has moved so aggressively into the reader space that its e-book market share has grown to 26%, and Consumer Reports has rated the latest Nook as (by a hair-thin margin) the best reader in the industry. from the same period in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Except when it''s not, which is becoming increasingly common — see the sheer pants crisis , the abrupt resignation of a CEO , a poorly-received job ad to replace said CEO, and a bit of media heat over a 2011 murder that occurred in a Bethesda store. Why would an industry beat a hasty retreat from a market that continues to boom?"

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? But if you work in one of his companies, you won’t operate entrepreneurially. In the CEO Afterlife.

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