The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What’s more, evidence suggests that this rapid growth approach often neglects the region the startup was created in and forces founders to relocate to the biggest market possible, whether for customers or talent. Societal benefits. Could the skills such entrepreneurs have ultimately benefit society regardless, however?

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

job market. Feeling in control One would not think the jobs market was in such rude health if you only listen to the hype surrounding chatGPT, however, and this distinction matters for our prospects in the future of work. The sector recorded a net increase of 3.2%, resulting in the addition of over 280,000 jobs nationwide.

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Productivity Products Altman Osborne 105

Chart Your Course

MAY 2, 2013

According to a study by WorldatWork, “Retention of key talent – those employees who are the strongest performers, have high potential or are in critical jobs – is even more important during economic recoveries when organizations compete aggressively for market share and talent.” Copyright © 2013 TTI Success Insights.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 18, 2014

This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make decisions that optimize health outcomes and cost-effectiveness. This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make decisions that optimize health outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

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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. They credit their success with more affordable and effective marketing tools via the Internet, and growing support for local businesses.

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Directory Trends Media Newsletter 170

The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Yet, despite those fears, we’re living through what has been dubbed the Second Golden Age of Television, as companies like Amazon and Netflix have entered the market and invested huge sums in television shows and movies. The study focuses its attention on the app market, which is estimated to be worth over $100 billion globally.

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Innovation Download Pharmaceuticals Creativity 83

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

03-26-2013 3:00 AM, EDT. 3) The market rewards your stock: According to the Parnassus prospectus for its Workplace Fund (a portfolio of stocks of companies with outstanding workplaces) – as quoted in Fast Company, the average annual return on the Workplace Fund over the past 5 years (a recessionary period) was 10.81%. By Kate Olsen.

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Human Resources Talent Management Motivation Analysis 153

Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. For instance, a business wants to expand its social media marketing. Armed with ready ideas, the lead team can decide who will post what and when, creating a consistent, time-efficient social marketing strategy. This past February Yahoo!’s

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 21, 2013

By Peter Orszag Aug 13, 2013. “An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. ” via With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring? With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring?

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Human Resources Advertising Talent Management Resources 145

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2015

How did you do in the area of marketing? How did you do in the area of web marketing? How did you do in the area of motivating your team? Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey for 2013 revealed that 70 percent of Americans do not prepare a detailed personal budget. How did you do in the area of consistency?

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Goal Planning Marketing Succession 50

Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2013

You probably didn’t answer, “How to implement effective marketing.” ” Marketing can sometimes slip through the cracks given the constant and pressing demands of sales, client service, and internal operations. Why is marketing important for your business? Writing is a key element of marketing.

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Marketing Press Release Consultative Brand 50

First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Real Estate Books Review Leadership 75

Chart Your Course

OCTOBER 27, 2014

But eConsultancy’s 2013 Cross-Channel Marketing Report found that 70 percent of business owners feel acquisitions are definitely more expensive than retention. The 2013 GE Capital Major Purchase Shopper Study found that 81 percent of consumers will research a product online before buying it. Live Chat Online.

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Quality Succession White Paper Customer Loyalty 182

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Dorie Clark – Dorie is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, TIME, Entrepreneur, and the World Economic Forum blog. I suppose it depends on whom you ask.

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Porter Christensen Consultative Influence 150

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They treated workers as their greatest asset, investing in and motivating them. Michigan), is president of Eich Associated , a marketing and public relations consulting firm. They understood the impact that a strong, adaptive corporate culture has on organizational performance, the true mark of leadership. Eich , Ph.D.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

More than half of all Americans are female, yet this gender split is not reflected in today’s job market, especially in more executive-level roles. There is a large body of research indicating the organizational, marketing and financial benefits of an equitable gender mix in management and worker-team groups.

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Company Automotive Diversity Metrics 100

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Last month, the Kansas City Business Journal published its list of 2013 Best Places To Work Companies in the Kansas City metro. As you review the winning companies profiles (the publication''s October 4, 2013 issue), you''ll notice that wellness and fitness programs and perks are common among this year''s winners.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Cost Deming Management System 35

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 6, 2014

Some went on to dominate a market without any previous background in it. Amar told me in 2013 that some factors have changed since he first published his findings, for example, access to capital is more widespread through crowd-funding, along with a mainstream popularization of entrepreneurship and rise of a global startup ecosystem.

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Execution CTO Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing 257

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 20, 2015

And while CEO Tim Dagenais says that’s pretty good for a company that size in those Upper Peninsula markets, he wanted to do better. In 2013 we figured we reached the point where about 85% of our people where the type of people we could count on to take our company to the next level,” Dagenais says.

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White Paper Case Study Human Resources Hotels 100

In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

In 2013, Zappos continues to amaze under this culturally insightful leader. Seemingly, if workers understood what types of performance and achievement earned certain people more money, he figured, perhaps they would be more motivated and successful, too. Has the Zappos culture improved business performance and shareholder value?

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Long-term Download CEO Objective 100

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Asking Why Motivates. On the other hand, recalling why an activity is important renews the motivation to see it through. Remember how much of a difference high definition television made when it first came to market? © 2013 Thoughts for the Everyday Leader — Standard by 8BIT. Asking Why Clarifies Focus.

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Simon Sharpe Mentor Resources 243

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. All too often this leads to a loss of trust, miscommunication, and a decrease in morale, not to mention loss of market share or revenue.

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Creativity Mentor Follow-up Objective 223

Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. With employee engagement lagging in most companies, the best way to jump ahead of the competition is to create a motivated workforce. You need people who focus on getting the right products to the right market at the right time.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

The greatest untapped source of motivation, he argues, is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves. Sources: The New York Times Magazine, March 31, 2013 and www.LawofReciprocity.com. Grant Ph.D.:

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Social Capital Cialdini Mentor Incentives 139

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There’s a motive behind every question a prospect asks. And that motive is the sales driver. That’s the motive, not the function. you will then uncover the real buying motive. Show me a slide deck prepared by marketing, and I’ll show you a boring message. In sales this is known as the hot button.

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CRM Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Belief Systems 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2013

THEM – Questions about THEM that reveal their history, their situation, and their motives – their past experience, their wisdom, their opinion. Your knowledge of the customer’s buying motives are as good or greater than your selling skills. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. True engagement.

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Customer Loyalty Seminar Media Marketing 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2013

You are unaware of the customer’s motive to buy, and as a result have a hard time perceiving what their urgency is. Here are three new ways of thinking: I’m going to uncover my customer’s intentions and motives for purchase. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. What a concept.

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Objective Customer Loyalty Seminar Books 79

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The sound of the words captivates the imagination: pay for what you get; get what you pay for; motivate people to do their best, for their own good. Related: Business 901 Podcast: Two New Deadly Diseases for Business (2013) – Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. The idea of a merit rating is alluring.

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Execution Deming System CEO 45

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Videotape the buying motives of your top ten customers. Find out the true non-price buying motive(s) for dealing with you. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Study your (or your company’s) last 100 sales. Video the conversation. Meet one customer a day for morning coffee. Make a few deliveries yourself.

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Loyalty Price Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 58

Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

Whether you’re a leader trying to market your product or service or that same leader wanting to effectively lead your team, having good relationships with others is crucial. That same principle applies to leadership: when those being lead trust their leader, they will go that extra mile.

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Schein Learning-by-Doing Development Influence 218

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2013

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. By tuning in to customer needs, a company is able to define the market in ways they could not have identified had they only looked inward. All rights reserved.

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Organization Open-book Innovation Technology 58

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top. It’s sometimes difficult to motivate yourself to make another phone call, to drive ten more miles, or to approach one more customer in the store. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Consider leaving a comment!

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2014

The lesson is the motive behind the word so you can use the same principle as you generate your words. ADVISOR – I launched the Gitomer Certified Advisor program in the fall of 2013. And with online, on-demand video, concentration on marketing and distribution are on the top of my list. Instant success.

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Succession Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Content 50

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Welcome to the February 2013 Leadership Development Carnival. Andy Uskavitch from SuperVISION Motivation on the importance of Communication and Partnerships. This month’s Carnival offers an array of fresh insights for a fresh year. Randy Conley with another gem on Leading with Trust with Five Lessons from Lance Armstrong’s Failure.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Most likely you know plenty of them, since strategy tourists – those individuals who lack the motivation, skills and knowledge to turn a strategy into performance – can be found in abundance in most organizations. Blame the market, other departments or poor IT-systems for the fact that you are not taking brave, independent action.

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Strategy Strategic Planning Porter Simon 59

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

. “If consumers cared about moral issues,” the argument goes, “then companies and brands that did the right thing would have a larger market share. ” I understand the attraction to markets and their efficiency; I am a marketing professor. billion in the US alone in 2013 according to Charity Navigator).

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