The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter , in more than three decades of watching countless leadership books come and go in this business, I can count on one hand — starting with Corporate Cultures and In Search of Excellence — the very few that marked a major turning point in development focus and approaches.

Books 53

Books Collins How To Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

The team’s mission was to come up with new products for the European market — and then, significantly, to convince senior management in South Korea to invest in those projects — several of which, it turned out, required Samsung to deviate from their current strategy within the product categories in question. Build trust with low-risk ideas.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Disruptive Innovation Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. According to the 2013 Maritz Loyalty Report, 91 percent of customers in loyalty programs are likely to download a loyalty program app. Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. According to the 2013 Maritz Loyalty Report, 91 percent of customers in loyalty programs are likely to download a loyalty program app. Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand.

Advertising 8

Advertising Loyalty ROI Brand 8

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

healthcare spending set to grow 5 percent – or more than $100 billion – each year through 2013, businesses are scrambling for ways to save money on their health benefits. Active management of healthcare delivery and cost control has not typically been seen as an integral part of the mission for human resource (HR) departments.

Company 56

Company Management Human Resources Human Capital 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

See PageFair’s 2013 and 2014 reports). In August, Apple disclosed developer support for “Content Blocking” on its new mobile operating system, IOS 9. As soon as IOS 9 became available the next month, the top app downloads were for ad blockers. As did use. Expect other forms of content blocking to follow.

Advertising 8

Advertising CRM Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Album sales are down 14%, single downloads are down 11%, and only the streaming services are up, 28%. But by 2013, Linkin Park and Machine Shop had to address the fact that digital music (first downloads and then streaming) had changed the business dramatically. Photo by Mark Fiore. How do musicians make money today? of course).

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, we have tapped our front lines – our 1,500 physicians and thousands more nurses, PA’s, pharmacists and other clinicians – for ways to improve care and reduce costs, using an innovation incubator model that adapts venture capital investment approaches to find and scale the best ideas.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Proposal Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

Strategy 8

Strategy Competitive Advantage Environment Execution 8