First Friday Book Synopsis

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

He has been ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as… Read More Dave Ulrich on calculating the market value of leadership: An interview by Bob Morris.

Ulrich 70

Ulrich Marketing Leadership Consultative 70

CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012.

Self-aware 146

Self-aware Ethics Tools Finance 146

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

You see, in storytelling, as noted by Aristotle, there must be logos (logic), ethos (ethics, credibility, values) and pathos (emotions). Ask them about the vision, and you were likely to get figures of ROI, market share, and other statistical facts and figures that leave you cold. One might even say too data-driven.

Storytelling 183

Storytelling Katz Magazine Tactics 183

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase. On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. in 2012–16), in Western Europe (from 4.2%

Ethics 8

Ethics CEO Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

Marketing 8

Marketing Advertising Ethics Health Care 8

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

Press Release 202

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Authenticity is not a specific characteristic – it is derived from the ethical, honest, and consistent actions of your total words and deeds. Is it true that many leaders are not keeping up with changes in the market, changes in technology, and changes in human capital needs? Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc.

Globalization 50

Globalization Mission Statement Human Capital Seminar 50

The Idolbuster

MAY 11, 2012

On May 3, 2012, a dissident investor accused Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson of falsifying his resume on the company web site and in financial disclosures by claiming a computer science degree that he didn’t earn. The last thing they need is someone with questionable ethics at the helm. James, I think your cover's blown!

CEO 48

CEO Letter PR Ethics 48

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 6, 2013

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. The ramification is clutter, the arch enemy of brand identity.

Brand 260

Brand P&L Human Resources Brand Management 260

Strategy Driven

JULY 2, 2012

You’ve placed a value on yourself that reflects in your selling skills, your attitude, your belief system, your truthfulness, and your ethics. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. How you feel about the customer and their buying process. That’s you. And then there is the customer. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

Reputation 50

Reputation Customer Loyalty Belief Systems Seminar 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2012

As the New York Times recently reported, in the early 2000s, when Walmart de Mexico was building stores at a furious pace (making the country the company's second largest market), it was making illegal payments to get building permits and speed store expansion. But the immediate market reaction here is fascinating.

Ethics 11

Ethics Short-term Marketing Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

million for 2012, a 74 percent increase. Similarly, commentators have been divided about whether the raise was deserved or not, citing both economic performance (2013 was about the same as 2012) and Dimon’s handling of diverse legal and regulatory issues for support. Boards Ethics Leadership'

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” ” What has emerged more recently is the use of nonfinancial, but still objective, KPIs.

TSR 9

TSR Banking Committee Incentives 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

There’s a wonderful scene (one of many) in Michael Lewis’s new book, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt , in which John Schwall, then the head of product management at RBC Capital Markets in New York, decides one day in 2011 to figure out how stock trading had evolved into a high-speed, unfair race he thought it had become.

Long-term 8

Long-term Open-book Marketing Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

Reference 15

Reference Tips Media Case Study 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

A 2012 Pricewaterhouse Coopers survey found that 60% of CEOs did not believe they had the talent they needed to be successful, and one in four had to delay or forego market opportunities and strategic initiatives because they didn''t have the right talent. employers report having difficulty filling key roles.

Cooper 8

Cooper Customer Loyalty Storytelling Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Is your firm ready for this new age of peer-to-peer marketing? How long does it take our social media, PR or marketing people to find our customer advocates when they're needed to rebut a critique or attack, or talk to a media interviewer? Let's say you're preparing for a major product or service launch.

Reference 13

Reference Tips Media Case Study 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2015

GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. And the market for software talent was hot hot hot.

Software 8

Software Six Sigma Insourcing P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2013

There is a growing network of people — including the leaders of companies such as the Container Store, Starbucks, Trader Joe's, Patagonia and Whole Foods Market (of which one of us is the co-CEO) — building their companies based on the idea that business is about more than making a profit. It's about higher purpose.

Politics 10

Politics Cooper Ethics Conference 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. If lawmakers don’t handle this correctly — well, consider Red Flag laws.

Transportation 8

Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. By 2012 as the firm became more focused, this split had evolved to 85% coatings and 7% glass. Take a tobacco company in the U.S.

Social Capital 8

Social Capital Chemicals Industry Cost 8

CO2

JULY 11, 2012

by Maria Gonzalez | Submitted Jun 09, 2012. Second Place: Economy had me down … by Jonathan Hamilton | Submitted Jun 09, 2012. I really had to work to get my business through marketing and advertising. by James Cook | Submitted Jun 28, 2012. by Diana Thompson | Submitted Jun 29, 2012. 764 # Votes. 38 # Votes.

Real Estate 74

Real Estate Learning-by-Doing Rogers Taylorism 74

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. In other cases, such as Nationwide Insurance ''s October 2012 security breach, companies invoke client-attorney privilege to seal the evidence. It may end up someplace where laws, regulations, and ethics are highly questionable.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It's fair to question whether these frequent price changes are ethical. For example, the Q2/2012 operating margins for Amazon and Best Buy were both under 1% (0.8% After all, I'd hate to have purchased that microwave and later find out that its price dropped by over $100 on the same day. respectively).

Price 8

Price Retail Discount Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs." Transaction costs, Coase argued, explained why some interactions were left to the market and others were internalized in increasingly large, complex enterprises.

Cost 8

Cost Open-book Disruptive Innovation Conference 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

"By almost any market test, economics is the premier social science," Stanford University economist Edward Lazear wrote just over a decade ago. The field attracts the most students, enjoys the attention of policy-makers and journalists, and gains notice, both positive and negative, from other scientists.".

Tversky 11

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Often its members join in a professional organization, local, state, or national, which enunciates standards and ethics of professional performance sometimes with the powers of enforcement.” Usually, but not always, it requires a degree or certification, and credential of some kind. ” And yet, for decades, teachers have endured.

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. The Walmart bribery scandal is one of the most closely-watched cases of alleged malfeasance by a global company.

Compliance 8

Compliance Committee Globalization CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." But in financial markets, it's problematic. The Financial Services Roundtable, the lobbying group for the biggest financial companies in the U.S., The largest U.S. The profit motive is generally a good thing.

Finance 13

Finance Motivation White Paper Banking 13

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2012

Critical topics include leadership development of executives, mindset changes in the evolution from manager to executive to leader, executive mentoring, insights into how top professionals evolve, plateaus of professional accomplishment, developing a winning work ethic, lifelong learning and the accrual of business wisdom. by Hank Moore.

Business Development 51

Business Development Development Learning-by-Doing Ethics 51

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Adjustments must be periodically made to target markets, definition of terms and modification of strategies. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Walking the Talk: ethics, values, quality, vision. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Running a bureaucracy.

Strategic Planning 71

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 71

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

With hundreds of applications submitted for a single open position, it's indicative of a fiercely competitive labor market. Sixty percent of hiring managers said volunteering increases the candidate's marketability. Volunteerism is a testament to a person's character and work ethic.

Long-term 14

Long-term Letter Seminar Human Resources 14

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

Press Release 178

Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

initiative — prohibitions against off-label marketing under the False Claims Act — swept through the pharmaceutical industry. This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings.

Finance 8

Finance Banking Press Release Pharmaceuticals 8

LDRLB

OCTOBER 22, 2012

More than one million other websites are integrated with Facebook to drive business opportunities, 80 percent of businesses are using Facebook, and half of those are using Facebook for marketing in 2012. I expect people to do their best, and anyone who works for me has to have a strong work ethic. ” Donald Trump.

Power 167

Power Kaplan Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 167

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Jay was irritated. “No

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

The October 2012 issue cover of INC Magazine: THE AGENDA--HOW WASHINGTON CAN HELP ENTREPRENEURS RESTORE THE AMERICAN DREAM. Most of the discussion has focused on labor market forces like falling blue-collar wages and lavish Wall Street pay. INC Editor Eric Schurenberg reports in a recent survey, Inc. They want 1.

Cooper 97

Cooper Entrepreneur Policies Magazine 97