Chart Your Course

JUNE 24, 2013

According to a May 2013 survey from email marketing company Constant Contact, 59 percent of small businesses say running their business is harder today than it was five years ago. Stay current on the latest trends. The amount of small businesses using social media for marketing jumped from 5 percent in 2008 to 87 percent in 2013.

Directory 170

Directory Trends Media Newsletter 170

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. Google, for example, uses human capital analytics to encourage a coaching style among managers – because the analysis reveals this to be the most effective leadership style. They are transforming each and every business model. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

With the coming of the automobile and national radio advertising, James C. Under Wood, Sears became a pioneer in using demographic and economic trends to anticipate customer demand. Competition Leadership Retail' A trip through the HBR archives shows just how cutting-edge the company has been in so many ways for so long.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Overly simplistic notions – “the people who do the advertising”– were based on stereotypes that never accurately reflected the range of responsibilities that many CMOs had. To have the influence to help set business strategy for the company, CMOs need to translate customer insights into terms meaningful to senior leadership.

P&L 8

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Review your investment portfolio to identify certain appreciated positions to sell now before taxes potentially increase in 2013. Medicare tax that will be imposed on certain investment income for higher income Americans beginning in 2013. The Social Security tax holiday is designed to leave more money in our paychecks.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Like marketers, politicians obsess over messaging (what journalists would call “content”) and a few key metrics that historically have determined success: amount of television advertising, number of “foot soldiers,” intensity of get-out-the-vote operations, and voter demographics. An advertising-based model.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9