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Business is a Laughing Matter

Lead Change Blog

That sign- a form of self-deprecating humor—is a small but powerful example of what consumers and employees want: humor. That’s what you’ll find from Stanford Graduate School of Business professors Jennifer Aaker and lecturer Naomi Bagdonas who teach a class “ Humor: Serious Business. ”. Yours will be ready in a minute.”

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? Want respect as a manager? RT @ smaxbrown : Author Jennifer @ Aaker of The Dragonfly Effect reveals how to get results by harnessing power of SM [link] #. link] # leadership #.

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

Some compile complex Customer Relationship Management algorithms to develop and maintain these relationships. The Powerful Role of Trust. Marketing scholars Jennifer Aaker and Susan Fournier reveal how closely business relationships and interpersonal relationships mirrored each other in an Internet-based psychology test.

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Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands?

Harvard Business Review

Even though gender is increasingly understood to be fluid and multidimensional, brands continue to draw power from gender stereotypes. Some of the pioneering work on applying this idea to brands and actually measuring their personalities was done in the 1990s by Jennifer Aaker, then at UCLA and now at Stanford.

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