Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

Triggers : Creating Behavior Change That Lasts—Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. Best Leadership Books of 2013.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

(Your marketing people, your ad agency, yada, yada) Anyone preparing “boring” marketing tools in this day and age should be forced to take that crap out on a sales call and see how CUSTOMERS perceive it or care ten cents about it. Here are some GOLDEN opportunities to be creatively sincere: At the fast food window.

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Politics Customer Loyalty Airlines Creativity 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2013

It’s not market conditions; it’s you’re mental conditions. The power of creativity. Creativity is a science, and you can learn it. And once you begin to see things a little bit differently than others, you’ll become more creative. Creativity makes it evident. Preparation determines outcome.

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Power Succession Loyalty Customer Loyalty 58

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Research by Gallup, as reported in The State of the American Workplace in 2013, discovered that roughly 70% of workers were disengaged. We begin to live and lead from a creative rather than a reactive viewpoint. Some may be engineers, marketers, finance directors, or salespersons. A 2001 study by the Hay Group indicated a 2.5x

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Innovation begins with management; by fostering a culture that prioritizes innovation, creativity is incentivized among team members. Customer centricity: It’s been proven that companies that prioritize their customers see greater business results and continually bring more innovative products to the market. All rights reserved.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Thanks to the bureaucracy and lack of listening that exists in most companies today, we have created working environments that stifle the creativity, original thought, and innovation that make our human capital so valuable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Silent Killer #5: Suppressing Innovation.

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Six Sigma Productivity Products Bureaucracy 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 9, 2013

In the case of Division-D, we took a closer look at 3 Interactive’s market and saw the need to change the core of our company from a local media representation company to a high impact ad media buying firm. Bobby Campbell is a successful entrepreneur with a deep understanding of how to monetize emerging digital markets.

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Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 26, 2013

I’m certain that in a Facebook research-marketing lab someplace in Silicone Valley they’re talking about Instaface or Facegram. ’ For your photos, your travels, your creativity, your career, your achievements, your cute kids, your passions, and your family. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Media Follow-up Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

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Marketing Venture Funding Entrepreneur IPO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Salespeople are missing huge opportunities for engagement and opportunities to gain response from customers by not being imaginative or creative in their communications. Show me a slide deck prepared by marketing, and I’ll show you a boring message. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Belief Systems 58

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Indeed, if a department attracts new customers, it wins the lion’s share of the marketing budget, but it is well documented that it costs some companies five to ten times more to attract new customers than to retain an existing one. The Powerful Role of Trust. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust.

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Aaker Short-term Marketing Benchmarking 64

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yes, I do realize that given the current economic environment and cost cutting – especially around training unfortunately – some of these companies may have their programs on hold or scaled back to fewer numbers of attendees.). Creative thinking. She is currently President of the PMI® Mass Bay Chapter Board of Directors (2011 – 2013).

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I was recently asked to think about how 2013 trends will impact women in the work force and how women will impact the trends. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so.

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Trends Power Simon Real Estate 265

Strategy Driven

MAY 13, 2013

OUTREACH: Be personal and creative. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Marketing & Sales brand development buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales personal brand development strategydriven'

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Brand Reputation Follow-up Video 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 29, 2013

It shows your laziness, lack of creativity, and overall lack of professionalism. increase their interactive marketing ROI. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Not just what you’ve done, but also who you are. EVERY TIME.

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ROI Customer Loyalty Media Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

This is a process that can be learned and applied by everyone, not just the “creative” types. You know the US market well, as do your people, because it is your only market, even though you are pretty sure your product could be applied internationally. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

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Price Innovation Incentives Learning-by-Doing 92

Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2013

It’s for people that have no other way of marketing. ” If the commercial is cool, creative, maybe a little bit edgy, and has a little music in the background they will listen to that commercial and call other people in to hear it. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Sherri, Cold calling sucks.

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Advertising Customer Loyalty Bottom-up Media 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

In 1998, I advised the Disney corporation and reminded them that Walt Disney’s 100th birthday in 2001 would offer great marketing and positioning opportunities. Houston Symphony Orchestra, 100th in 2013. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article. Star Furniture, 100th in 2012. Civil Rights Act, 50th.

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Case Study Open-book Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Walmart recently lost $20 billion in market cap in one day, in part because its leadership admitted it needs to invest more into its e-commerce operations. In 2013, Target even told the Securities and Exchange Commission that “digital sales represented an immaterial amount…of total sales.”

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Airlines Retail Loyalty Price 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

If you're looking for marketing jargon in 2013, look no further than "native advertising." Brands, media companies and marketing agencies are jumping on the native advertising bandwagon faster than you can say, "what ever happened to Pinterest being the next big thing?". So let's try to define it. or native to TV? Not really.

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Advertising Definition Advertorial Media 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2013

What are the most important topics for marketers? Last month, in an online vote with Incite Marketing and Communications, 579 marketers ranked the following as their top five topics: 1. Data-driven creativity: An oxymoron? Use what you learn to drive better marketing campaigns. Nothing has changed.

Marketing 58

Marketing Media ROI Consensus 58

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. These early systems superimposed virtual information on the physical environment (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Phase 3: A broader range of uses.

Tourism 8

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2016

Strategic alignment, for us, means that all elements of a business — including the market strategy and the way the company itself is organized — are arranged in such a way as to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. But corporate leaders today seem to agree that strategic alignment is high on the list.

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Banking Strategy Film Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

” This definition is echoed by a 2013 national survey of 20,000 conducted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. “ Creativity is squeezed out for conformity and teacher autonomy suppressed; room for going “rogue” is the exception. Unless everyone reads Shakespeare, no one does. are women ). are women ).

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2013

But even though they know they must innovate in response, they don''t know how to do so in the complex global market. Many of our assumptions about what motivates and dissuades people are wrong-especially when knowledge, creativity and innovation are desired. As a result, the nature of work and the workforce is changing.

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CIO CEO Outsourcing Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

As we transform from industrial work more easily and efficiently done by robots to creative and knowledge work leveraging humans, we are balancing the values of scale and efficiency (industrial work) with the need for agility and efficacy ( creative and knowledge work ). Here''s a start to that conversation. IT management ROA ROI'

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CIO ROI Agility Information Technology 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Protection of human capital, knowledge bases of workers, executives, company safety and the work environment. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Prevention of unnecessary employee burnout.

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Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 78

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The result will be creative new variations. Marketing is more for ego reasons, rather than a careful strategy. Sales and marketing are not given enough support… especially management’s personal participation. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. ” Benjamin Franklin. ” Bishop J.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 2, 2013

Offering highly creative ideas and brain power to those who could not grasp their brilliance… especially to those who were fishing for free ideas they could then market as their own. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it.

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Company Learning-by-Doing Budgeting Consultative 61

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. All rights reserved.

Energy 57

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 57

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. The right settings in which to showcase the product.

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Long-term Budgeting Quality Consultative 56

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 4, 2013

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Crisis 59

Crisis Airlines Transportation Crisis Management 59

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Crises can have many liabilities upon companies, including loss of profits and market share. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What Causes Crises. All rights reserved.

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Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 18, 2013

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The next phase in restoring public credibility to Tylenol was the reintroduction of new product to the shelves, done in such a way as to restore consumer confidence and increase market share. There is an art to Crisis Preparedness.

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Crisis Crisis Management Budgeting Risk Management 71

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets.

Franchising 64

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 64

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. This is a creative way of re-treading old knowledge to enable executives to master change rather than feel as they’re victims of it. All rights reserved.

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Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 62