Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I think they’re just saying it as a kind of mundane, almost impolite, form of politeness. The politically correctness of your slide show. Marketing and HR people: Get off your corporate hobby horse and saddle up your creative brain! Southwest Airlines is anything but politically correct. Forced nicety. What about you?

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Politics Customer Loyalty Airlines Creativity 50

Tim Milburn

MARCH 14, 2014

With the business, social, and political landscapes shifting like quicksand, “failing forward fast” is more important now than ever. million around the concept and produced an infomercial aimed at the women’s fitness market. In today’s fast-paced world, new technologies change industries overnight.

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Magazine Bottom-up Self-aware Marketing 106

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Questions like this involving issues like politics, human rights, or equality often present themselves sooner or later for any business operating in global markets. Over the course of the last few decades, multinationals have entered and left “frontier markets” like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Vietnam, Myanmar, and others.

Politics 12

Politics Short-term Long-term Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2012

You couldn't get away from Facebook posts and streams of tweets from friends who were all too happy to leverage their networks to talk politics, often sharing posts and memes in support of their calendar (Big bird, binders and bayonets anyone)? In 2013, content will not only be king, but queen, prince and jester, too.

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Trends Content Technology Follow-up 9

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2013

This year, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Reserve System, and central bankers are taking a historical perspective. As the underwriting weaknesses of subprime portfolios became known, banks stopped lending to each other, paralyzing credit markets. Rockefeller and others to pony up enough cash to stabilize the markets.

Banking 50

Banking Crisis Morale System 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Recognizing this fundamental difference, Universal changed its marketing from promoting what it wanted consumers to experience to a testimonial to what the experience was already providing. No longer focusing on their marketing platform – “ride the movies”– they built a new strategy – “Experience an extraordinary escape at Universal.”

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2013

Whether you’re in politics or sales, the burden is the same: take responsibility for all that happens. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. And if it’s not happening in the best way possible, take responsibility to make it happen in a better way. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Objective Customer Loyalty Seminar Books 79

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

OCTOBER 21, 2013

CAUTION: Ordinary, even polite, service is unacceptable. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Customer Relationship Management Marketing & Sales customer relationship management customer service Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven' Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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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.

Business Model 73

Business Model Advertising How To Entrepreneur 73

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Employers are increasingly talking about politics with their employees. In fact, since we began our outreach and monitoring, we have seen a fourfold increase in employer-to-employee political communications, from 5% of the private workforce hearing from their employer about politics in 2000 to over 20% in 2008.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Nonetheless, the failure and resolution of Texas-based First RepublicBank, reminds us that the hand of government can harm as well as help when it wrestles the invisible hand of the market. With both banks highly concentrated in the weak Texas real estate market, the deal ended up helping neither bank. All told, the FDIC paid $1.9

Banking 50

Banking Real Estate Insurance Handbook 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2015

A new research report from the Society of Digital Agencies finds that in the past year there has been a dramatic spike in the number of companies who no longer work with outside marketing agencies — 27 percent, up from 13 percent in the previous year. This continues a trend The Association of National Advertisers first reported in 2013.

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Marketing Advertising Trends Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2015

Many companies start their search for global growth in an alphabet soup of emerging-market groupings such as the BRIC , CIVETS , MINT , Next 11 , and so on. There are several flaws in using such acronyms as the basis for entering overseas markets. Is that smart? Not really, suggests our analysis.

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Marketing Benchmarking Globalization Construction 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2013

Insincere politeness and phony thanks makes you sound like a bad flight attendant, reading from a script, into a bad microphone, behind a wall. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Marketing & Sales buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven twitter'

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Open-book Follow-up Customer Loyalty Reputation 50

Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

For example, Austin, Dallas, Kansas City and Salt Lake City are among the fastest-growing hubs for high-tech startups in the country, according to a 2013 report by the Kauffman Foundation. Geography can also factor in startup success and failure rates. Craig Casselberry is the founder and president of Austin-based Quorum Public Affairs, Inc.,

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Company Real Estate Strategic Planning Venture Capitalist 52

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).

Ethics 8

Ethics Marketing Brand Morale 8

Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 31, 2012

He is the author of four books, his latest: Inspired People Produce Results – (McGraw Hill 2013). Jeremy holds bachelors and masters degrees from Columbia International University. Jeremy lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and two sons. Learn more at www.JeremyKingsley.com.

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Loyalty Team Short-term How To 52

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. For example, the Lordstown, Ohio, factory that makes the Chevy Cruze is running one shift a day, down from three a few years ago, and last year produced 180,000 vehicles, down from 248,000 in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

In 2013, Jayne Juvan became one of the youngest partners ever at the Cleveland-based law firm Roetzel & Andres — thanks to Twitter. Juvan got some political flack from fellow lawyers, but she didn’t back off. He had planned on teaching neuroscience at the college level, but when he graduated the job market was abysmal.

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Media Marketing Technology Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

When we reach its second and subsequent chapters, political uncertainty is likely to return and affect the financial, institutional, and real economies. The Canadian dollar, for example, depreciated 25% between 2013 and 2016, yet Canada’s trade balance remained virtually unchanged. Brexit is a process, not an event.

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Depreciation Uncertainty Company Politics 8

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2014

History is replete with instances of people emerging from nowhere to lead at a given moment – a crisis, a vacancy, a market need. Chesley Sullenberger’s masterful landing of a troubled flight in the Hudson River in 2013, or the daring rescue by 12 year old Kamal Nepali to save a girl’s life who fell into a deep gorge.

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Industry Crisis Skills Politics 320

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

On November 15, 2013, China announced dramatic new social and economic policies contemplating much greater reliance on market forces than it has in the past and inviting private-sector participation and foreign competition in industries long previously controlled by the central government. China will grow faster in 2014 than in 2013.

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Policies Class Health Care Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Political uncertainties and the absence of strong leadership contributed to social fragmentation. Massive layoffs ensued, and the labor market turned flexible far too rapidly, with many formerly middle-class workers losing permanent contracts and reliable salaries. Both countries’ uncertainties in political leadership are also alike.

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Consensus Class Uncertainty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The decline of manufacturing has dominated the political narrative in the United States, but there are dual plotlines within this well-known story. They already report that the domestic supplier base is hollowed out, depriving them of the agility they need to respond quickly to new market opportunities. kevin phillips/Getty Images.

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Supply Chain McKinsey Incentives Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2014

In the US, the government shutdown and ongoing political dysfunction roiled financial markets and raised serious new questions about America’s money-saving potential and the long-term outlook for the US economy. Finally, note that China is America’s third-largest and most rapidly growing export market. China Economy Politics'

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Proposal Politics Long-term Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Data contributes not only to brand equity, but to what constitutes product and service delivery in globally connected and hyper-competitive markets. This becomes particularly important in the context of cyber-crime and the alarming rise of business models being held for ransom or political gain.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Intellectual Capital Corporate Accountability Activity Based Costing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2015

Looking at the resumes of current CEOs across developed markets suggests that the answer may be that many lack training in the skills of investment analysis. Tellingly, another recent (2013) McKinsey study covering a 20-year period revealed that only 16% of board members understood how their firms created value.

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CEO ROIC Cost of Capital Merton 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But both trade and political alignment lumbered slowly forward until the current quarter and many American executives had become flustered with their India initiatives. In June 2013, Dallas-based Mary Kay exited from India after six years and over $20 million invested. Today there appears to a second gold rush to India.

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Venture Capitalist Price Marketing Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Did India just pull off a monetary and political miracle? The original reason given for the drastic demonetization action was to expose the so-called “black” market, fueled by money that is illegally gained and undeclared for tax purposes. Consider the sequence of events in its demonetization saga.

Banking 10

Banking GDP Policies Real Estate 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

Finance 8

Finance Education Drucker Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

It can generate political capital with government regulators, who may then grant the company greater freedom of movement. Since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh in 2013, garment retailers such as Walmart have contributed to improving working conditions for workers. It’s not for every company.

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Execution Metrics Long-term Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world. In 2013 in U.S.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. Self-interest is a powerful force nudging all asset owners—whatever their political affiliation—to adapt. economy be crippled? cities to adapt.

Real Estate 8

Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2017

The increasing acceptance of boomerang employees is partly due to the “tight job market,” according to Michael Watkins, chair of Genesis Advisers , professor at IMD , and author of The First 90 Days. But in 2013, after five years at the company, she resigned. After she left, Bridget worked in several other marketing firms.

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Company PR Learning-by-Doing Maturity 13