Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 30, 2017

Alan’s story at Ford is a success story, but it wasn’t always that way for Alan on his leadership journey. Quickly promoted to a management position, his first employee quit! Wanting to learn from this experience, Alan delved into learning about management and leadership and started to understand how to be a better leader.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 12, 2021

Michelle Seiler Tucker Recently, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale? The more time a business owner takes to think about their exit strategy, the easier it will be to sell their company for their desired price tag.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2014

Most New Year’s resolutions are health-related, and my expertise is in helping successful people change their relationship behavior. have a real chance of success, you have to take personal ownership and have the internal belief that “This will work if, and only if, I make it work. Think about the ones you set for yourself.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 20, 2021

Michelle Seiler Tucker Today, Tucker answered the following questions: Question: Of the 6 essential components of a successful business, which one is typically the weakest going into a sale? They also do not have tenured management teams in place to run the business after the sale, leaving the buyer with a larger than desired responsibility.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

Oxford University researchers Carl Benedikt Frey shot to public attention in 2013 when he and colleague Michael Osborne released research in which they predicted that 47% of jobs could be automated within the next decade or so.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2013

StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC launches StrategyDriven Advisory Services, a management consulting firm dedicated to helping executives and managers define organizational needs and develop and manage the complex, mission critical projects needed to improve operational effectiveness and lower costs in response to today’s most pressing challenges.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Even if you determine what they want is to spend as little as possible don’t try to trick them with false claims about low prices. Essentially they play bait and switch except they don’t even offer the choice to decline once they provide the real price. Those problems are costly to solve and damaging to customers.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

SECRET: Get purchasing people to be at the meeting with the people that USE your product, so they can understand the difference between price, productivity, value, and profit. Talk to your loyal customers that don’t buy price. Find out the true non-price buying motive(s) for dealing with you. The POWER of Sales Success.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 15, 2013

What else could a manager want? Sounds like it’s your manager that needs to make more calls and increase his activity. You’re a micro manager with little or no current sales talent yourself. Successful sales leaders… Manage the sales cycle, not call activity. Why not do something to actually help?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 28, 2017

Whitney Johnson – Thinkers 50 award-winning Management Thinker 2015-17, Disruptive Innovation expert, author Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. General Bernie Banks – Former General US Army, head of Leadership Development West Point, currently Associate Dean Northwestern Kellogg School of Management.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

“You’re on the beach watching the waves, and I’m here in my office working my ass off, or making cold calls, or out here sweating on a sales appointment, or following up with some guy that won’t return my call, or (worse) being beaten by price.”. Your success? Not manager, leader. Your achievements?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

I hope Cook doesn’t listen, because I think it would be bad for Apple, all of its employees who have contributed to its success, and the American economy. In August 2013, Icahn bought more than $1 billion worth of Apple shares. But judging from Cook’s past actions, I fear he will do Icahn’s bidding.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams. Prepare to negotiate culture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. Aldi offers not just low prices, but convenience. How did this happen? billion to $8.6

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Not surprisingly, Prime has been a wildly successful marketing vehicle that attracts new customers, increases sales (new members increase their purchases by an estimated 150% after joining), and serves the needs of high volume customers. This is so draconian and unimaginative–pricing can be much more creative.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

Moreover, this form of competition can lead to price pressure , which may have a damaging effect on industry profits. However, the battle for customer preference is not solely fought in specific product and price categories — it is also fought in the domains of location and promotional expenditure. Competition for excellence.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

When financial services company Square priced its IPO at $9 a share last November, well under the $15+ price that private investors paid the year before, it was a cold shower of reality for the 6-year-old company. One of the most successful unicorns to date is Dropbox, the online file sharing and storage space company founded in 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

What makes such a transformation successful? From our analysis of a number of core shifts and conversations with the CEOs who have undertaken them, we have drawn five keys to success: 1. Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

Industry research, for example, shows that companies spent more than $24 billion on leadership and management training worldwide in 2013, an increase of 15% from 2012. Underlying this notion was the lack of tangible results that could be attributed to management training. One experiment generated a 2.6%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

The success Netflix is enjoying was far from certain if you recall the summer of 2011. That’s when the company suffered through the Quikster controversy and a protest over its price increase. I was in the minority when I wrote that the price increase was a good thing. What successful companies are doing right.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2018

We are academics and practitioners focused on product recovery economics and life cycle asset management. We began collaborating when we recognized how interlaced asset management and product recovery were in textbook CEs. Two Success Stories. The Three Approaches. Together, they create the scale needed to make CEs profitable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Choose the right India country manager: The role of country manager for India can mean many things depending on the scope of operations and the structure of an organization. David Mulford, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

The depreciation of sterling has driven up the price of the UK’s import bill by 13% (on average) since the vote, which, if fully passed on, translates into a ~6% drop in disposable income. Importers must choose between lower margins and price hikes. The effect of rising import prices is widely diffused across the economy.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Yet by April 2016 Adobe’s stock price had nearly tripled from its value four years earlier. For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. increase in stock price on the announcement day.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A company that creates a sustainable competitive advantage, executes well and reinvests to solidify its strategy will find that its share price accurately reflects its value. Our research also found that most major reversals of highly successful companies began because the company lost the very culture responsible for its original success.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

A short-lived economic revival followed, helped by international assistance from European countries and multilateral institutions, and high prices for Zimbabwe’s commodity exports. After Mugabe claimed victory in a disputed election in 2013, however, corruption increased , while the strengthening U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2013

At 74% of the 1,471 companies that have voted so far in 2013, according to Equilar''s say-on-pay tracker , the "yes" percentage exceeded 90%. Only 31 companies (2%) have gotten sub-50% no-confidence votes in 2013. But it''s far from clear that professional money managers have what it takes to play the role of effective watchdog.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Here are the six likeliest reasons I could come up with: Luck: This has been the baseline academic explanation for investing success for five decades now. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. In 2012 it was $1.9

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

In the Fall of 2012, shortly before the most well-known creativity index in Germany was about to be published ( Manager Magazine Kreativ Index ), two leading advertising agencies in Germany, Jung von Matt and Scholz & Friends , announced that they would not participate in any creative or advertising award competitions in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2013

But after almost two years of plummeting sales, profits and stock price, Ackman and friends had to steal a line from The Who and ask shareholders, customers and employees to " meet the new boss, same as the old boss " with the reappointment of Ullman on April 8, 2013. Just as it needed two, five or ten years ago, JCP needs a strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. more competition to reduce consumer prices, sharing international best practices, technology transfer, public-private partnerships) needed to boost the economy’s health. This dynamic can stall important change (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

The company’s stock price has languished for years, and CEO Jeff Immelt—a powerful advocate of the company’s digital ambitions—recently departed the company under pressure from activist investors. The company received much acclaim for its transformation in the press (including some from us).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Uber’s lower costs brought lower prices to consumers, with resulting popularity and growth. Despite flouting straightforward, widely applicable law in most jurisdictions, Uber usually managed to slow or stop enforcement, in due course changing the law to allow its approach. Through these tactics, Uber muddied the waters.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. In contrast, industrial giant GE’s stock price has declined by 44 % over the last year, as news emerged about its first losses in last 50 years. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

The rise of Tata in India, Koç Holding in Turkey, and Grupo Carso in Mexico have some management thinkers contending that the conglomerate is back at the expense of the focused firm. In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. There is no “scope effect.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Since 2013, an estimated 16.4 Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. California’s model is perhaps the most influential: It has affected prices and choice in the market by standardizing plans and aggressively negotiating insurance rates.

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