The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jeff Bezos famously argued in one of his annual letters that he wants entrepreneurs to be missionaries rather than mercenaries, yet the VC-led model pushes founders towards rapid growth and rapid exits rather than sustainable ventures that leave a positive societal impression.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Class Letter Analysis 87

CEO Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

But 2013 we still have 1 in 9. Extroverts are more likely to go into sales but there is almost no correlation between sales success and extroversion. People were sent a personal letter to donate that has a specific and easy way to act. Those who were predisposed responded in 8% of the cases to the general letter.

Letter 124

Letter Disintermediation Innovation Meyer 124

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Your cover letter could have been written by Shakespeare (well, except for the use of “thou” and “leadeth”). Excessive swearing (only the hottest celebrities and most successful bloggers can pull that off). Work just as hard on that as you did your resume, LinkedIn profile and cover letter.

Letter 194

Letter Workshop Advice Career 194

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Consider your most successful moment(s). Updating your collateral materials (resume, cover letter, LinkedIn, etc), searching job boards, and preparing for interviews becomes much more tolerable when you have someone holding you accountable and cheering you along! Who am I alongside? Where am I? How did you get there? Who lifted you up?

Career 105

Career Positioning Education Benchmarking 105

Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2013

January 7, 2013. It was truly one of the highlights of my year getting to meet the man who literally wrote the book on success. Below are some of my favorites which represent the main flavor of everything Ziglar stood for: “You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.”

Leadership 189

Leadership Seminar Follow-up Newsletter 189

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 28, 2022

When the term unicorn was first coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, there were just 39 private firms with valuations and revenue of over $1 billion. When we look beneath the surface of all of this activity, however, it’s not exactly a pretty picture. trillion at the time of writing. Looking in the wrong place.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Venture Capitalist Mass Marketing Globalization 109

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Some were leaked super secret to the Create-Learning Letter a mostly-monthly newsletter that has Organization Development, Team Building, Managerial-Leadership, Experiential Theory application + articles + ideas. Looking forward to meeting and working with your team and leaders in 2013. In no particular order. Pre-Animate.

Team Building 136

Team Building Team SWOT Leadership 136

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Many of these individuals follow a series of intentional steps to career success, such as the five tips detailed in my blog post – 5 Surefire Tips for Job Advancement.”. Mary Jo Asmus , from www.aspire-cs.com : “Letter to a young leader: [link] ”.

Advice 307

Advice Self-aware Lewin Blog 307

Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2014

That means that now more than ever, being able to communicate in a clear and professional manner on the phone is critical to success in today’s business world. During telephone conversations, make an effort to speak a little more slowly than usual, and make sure that you are pronouncing each letter of every word.

Letter 64

Letter Competitive Advantage Content Article 64

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2016

As with sailing, the quickest route to strategic success is rarely a straight line, but is, instead, a zigzag of constant adjustments to environmental conditions, combined with more dramatic turns and detours to avoid major storms and to take advantage of changes in the prevailing winds and currents.

Long-term 50

Long-term Planning Chief Executive Officer Letter 50

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

As a soldier deployed for my ninth time since the events of September 11, 2001 I’ve seen firsthand the amazing impact something as simple as a letter can have on the human spirit. ” It is a remarkable sight, to be sure. ” and “Come home safe and soon!”

Emotional Intelligence 150

Emotional Intelligence Participative Short-term Letter 150

QAspire

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Liz Alexander (who I interviewed in 2013 on the topic of thought leadership ) and Naveen Lakkur (Director, Founder Institute, India) wrote a new book titled “ FOUND – Transforming Your Unlimited Ideas Into One Sustainable Business ”. success rate, which I think you will agree is shockingly low. success rate. That equates to a 0.4%

Entrepreneur 70

Entrepreneur Books Charan Follow-up 70

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2013

When a business is able to boast the best employees, then it has a better chance of success. Having strong writing skills to properly prepare the resume and cover letter are necessary. The resume and cover letter are, essentially, snapshots of the prospective candidate’s work experience. Consider leaving a comment!

Education 59

Education Letter Competitive Advantage Talent Management 59

Strategy Driven

MARCH 7, 2013

why professionals should submit letters of reference with their resume for both internal and external positions being applied for. why professionals should submit letters of reference with their resume for both internal and external positions being applied for. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

SWOT 57

SWOT Human Resources Letter Competitive Advantage 57

Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2013

Letter from a fan: Dear Jeffrey, I’m a big fan of your weekly column, especially the one about making sales vs. measuring sales activity. Successful sales leaders… Manage the sales cycle, not call activity. Coach them, and it will have a major impact on their sales, and your leadership success. Make more cold calls?

CRM 50

CRM Customer Loyalty Seminar Marketing 50

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In order for you to see the communication processes as successful and competent where would you have to be on that same scale? In these teams they will accomplish the following goal; Imagine 3 years in future September 28, 2013…Describe with vivid detail what your team would like the company to be like. How was today’s time like work?

Team Building 76

Team Building Process Transportation Follow-up 76

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 17, 2012

As I wrote in the September issue of The Leader Letter we spent an extremely busy summer getting up to speed on ZF’s powerful and very revolutionary strengths-based leadership approaches. How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success by Magnifying Your Strengths. “ Some books deserve a long life: The next Good to Great?

Leadership Development 45

Leadership Development Development Leadership Emotional Intelligence 45

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

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

It is one of most successful companies in the world. The Bezos Letters takes you through Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters and distills them into growth principles you can apply in your company. After studying Jeff Bezos’ letters, what surprised you the most? How You Can Learn from Amazon. It just works.” Jeff Bezos.

Letter 85

Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2013

Letter from a fan: Hello Mr. Gitomer, I read your article on LinkedIn in the Daily Herald Business Ledger here in the Chicago Suburbs. Long before social media, or as I prefer to refer to it business social media, my marketing mantra was the hallmark of my sales success. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC.

Media 50

Media How To Brand Customer Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

9, armed with about 1% of Apple’s outstanding stock, the hedge-fund activist published an open letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook, urging him to accelerate the company’s stock repurchases by making a tender offer. In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3

Safe Harbor 9

Safe Harbor Hedge EPS Price 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. Less than three months later, he received a call from his former boss Theo — in search of a reference letter himself. How should Christopher respond? Could he say no, and tell Theo off? Saying “no” these days isn’t easy.

Reference 8

Reference Letter Real Estate Tactics 8

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Thankfully, some organizations are learning that “Lean Design” (or “3P”) and similar methods (like Design Thinking) can help design better systems that help people be successful. A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. When I teach at health systems, I always ask who has heard of Dr. Deming.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job? So, are weak ties still the key?

Storytelling 14

Storytelling Wilde Film Learning-by-Doing 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We researched changes in a firm’s entrepreneurial strategy after CEO successions. We did this by measuring the entrepreneurial strategic focus stated in the annual letters to shareholders of S&P 500 firms between 2000 and 2013.

CEO 8

CEO Letter Retail Strategy 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

Hedge 8

Hedge Venture Capitalist Letter Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

It focuses on bring top US MBAs into the most successful, vibrant companies in Africa for up to 6 months of work and mentoring by senior African executives. Since 2013, BizCorps has placed top MBAs in Columbia and Kenya. In his 2012 letter to shareholders, Buffet castigated US CEOs for deferring decisions in the face of uncertainty.

Marketing 8

Marketing Career Wireless Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Everyone connected with #GivingTuesday is happy to see excitement growing as our next big day –December 3, 2013 – grows near. The point of #GivingTuesday shouldn’t be to hand partners a playbook and insist they follow it to the letter. The second #GivingTuesday will happen on December 3, 2013.

Decentralization 9

Decentralization Media Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

An analysis of holiday letters indicates that references to “crazy schedules” have dramatically increased since the 1960s. In other words, the more we believe that one has the opportunity for success based on hard work, the more we tend to think that people who skip leisure and work all the time are of higher standing.

Brand 8

Brand Participative Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Up until that March evening, Apple had been notoriously successful at concealing its new designs. That same day, Apple sent a letter to the website asking for its property back and filed a design patent application with the U.S. As part of the AIA, on March 16, 2013, the United States adopted a first-inventor-to-file regime.

Magazine 8

Magazine Engineering Productivity Products 8

Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2013

Even if it is a client letter, this gesture celebrates the year, as basis for helping business people to prepare for the future. Learn from successes… and three times more from failures. Hear the success stories. Good opportunities to compare successes, case studies, methodologies, learning curves and insights.

Planning 64

Planning Learning Curve Budgeting Learning-by-Doing 64

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Social innovation.

Innovation 11

Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2012

New York Mayor Bloomberg, a Republican, endorsed President Obama in the election, titling his open letter, " A Vote for a President to Lead on Climate Change.". PepsiCo has had great success with the method , finding ways to reduce cost and risk for key brands, but execs wanted to apply the tool across thousands of products.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Constraint P&L Energy 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Congress had a moderately successful run with budget pre-commitment mechanisms in the 1980s and 1990s, in the form of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and the successor known as " paygo." So now, in 2013, they're all due to expire. But it has worked in the past.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

public school classroom, he approached the task with the mentality of a successful serial entrepreneur. Maintaining transparent and compelling communications both internally among collaborative stakeholders and externally with key audiences is crucial to the success of a systems change effort. And since 2013, the share of U.S.

System 8

System Entrepreneur Telecommunications Policies 8