In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2012

My educated guess says that P&G and Unilever top management knew nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. Collectively, these giants employ 300,000 people, the vast majority of which are committed to delivering results, ethically.

Price 148

Price Discount Brand Incentives 148

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They can sound geeky, but they are developments that every manager needs to understand. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model. The reason?

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

When you own and operate a business you need to have certain procedures for an efficient and seamless function. Sometimes the difficulty of managing your time makes for a haphazard operation. Objective analysis of how the organization has operated to date. Assets are adequately valued and managed.

Succession 50

Succession Strategic Planning Budgeting Goal 50

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I have conducted countless strategy meetings where leaders cannot articulate business philosophies, but they can accurately recite lyrics from “golden oldie” song hits, TV trivia and advertising jingles. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

Strategic Planning 51

Strategic Planning Planning Ethics Learning-by-Doing 51

Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

All this data is essential for maintaining your business operations and keeping customers happy, and it has become an integral asset for companies, big and small, all over the world. But without proper data management practices, you are putting your business at great risk. Be compliant. Collect and use data sensitively.

Tips 117

Tips Management Compliance Software 117

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

Time is something we either manage well or have no sense of. If we are lacking in time-management skills it could take away from the time and love we get to share with our families. How great would it be if everyone would operate with the ultimate goal being love? It’s that simple of an equation. Interesting thoughts.

Press Release 182

Press Release Fraser Discount PR 182

Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

This review is the basis for most elements that will appear in a strategic plan, including the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, actions, challenges, teamwork, change management, commitment, future trends and external forces. No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities.

Article 50

Article Strategy Long-term Mentor 50

Women on Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The choice to stay in a very black and white world of facts and figures is important for keeping the trust of all team members—and is particularly relevant when you’re operating at one remove. Can you give me data about what’s been going on?” He said/she said is excruciating anytime.

Press Release 207

Press Release Discount Video PR 207

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Like with advertising, fifty-percent of promotional efforts work. But the advertiser or the promoter can’t know in advance which fifty-percent! For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Some of the efforts cast out into the marketplace stir up action.

Press Release 100

Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Today’s modern consumer is also more selective with the brands that they use when it comes to their morals and ethics. This means that it is helpful if you are a company that operates ethically and also helps to give back in one way or another. These are the main areas to focus on when building your brand as a small business.

Brand 10

Brand Mission Statement How To Ethics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

For example, I manage the finances for a team that travels very often, and I’ve been grateful for the intelligent guesswork that my expenses software extracts from receipts using machine learning: the merchant’s name, the dollar amount spent, taxes, and likely expense categorization. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Learning-by-Doing 11

Learning-by-Doing Software Technology Travel 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2018

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Targeted emotional learning systems are also being tested for group settings, such as by analyzing the emotions of students for teachers , or workers for managers. What does it mean for users if personal assistants are hooked up to advertisers?

Self-aware 8

Self-aware Analysis Brand Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2013

burden of running their companies’ day-to-day operations. Most managers assume that customers love getting gifts, especially in front of other people. In fact, a survey of retail managers suggests that a majority think customers are happier getting preferential treatment in public than in private. Ethical Quandaries.

Advertising 8

Advertising Video Ethics PR 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

According to a multitude of critics, the companies stepped over an ethical line by playing with emotions without asking users’ permission. In a recent conversation with a group of managers, I was told, “We don’t run experiments; we run A/B tests” — so named because customers are tested on their preferences for option A or B.

Ethics 8

Ethics Participative Peer Review Learning-by-Doing 8

Leading Blog

APRIL 16, 2021

Operating a small business is not unlike owning a really old house: things break a lot, and you need to fix them, over and over and over. I don’t try to mislead others or deliberately cause injury to someone for my gain, so I simply assumed everyone else would operate that way in business. Ours did; over 700 did not.)

Learning-by-Doing 255

Learning-by-Doing Long-term Automotive Open-book 255

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

This holds for corporate operating units and departments. You must always educate corporate opinion makers on how you function… and the skill with which you operate. Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. Advertising. Statements.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. It occupied one counter at 2-J’s Hamburgers, an established Austin restaurant, owned and operated by Ralph Moreland. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership.

Franchising 63

Franchising Budgeting Pryor Consultative 63

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart). Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Human resources management.

Consultative 59

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 59

Strategy Driven

JULY 23, 2019

For example, health care isn’t just about diagnosis and treatment any more, it’s also about managing data, maintaining customer privacy and implementing technological systems to improve performance. For businesses, the information age means that consumer profiles and targeted advertising are more effective than ever before.

Information 50

Information Compliance Reputation Health Care 50

In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 8, 2016

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. This means (packaging) war.

Brand 100

Brand Brand Management Advertising Management 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Making these decisions requires that directors have expertise, exercise informed judgment, and be guided by an ethical compass. This includes funding advertising that targets or promotes a specific candidate as long as it’s independent from the candidate and party committees. They may, however, engage in electioneering spending.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8