Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

This sounds like it might be advice from a paranoid outdoorsman. Companies used to spend a ton of money testing products with focus groups and market research teams. Communication Innovation Leadership' “If you see a snake, kill it. Don’t play with dead snakes. And everything looks like a snake at first.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

They have a leadership problem," I listened carefully. I featured Ronn, a former P&G executive (and current executive coach and entrepreneur), in several places in The Little Black Book of Innovation , most notably for his rant against the evils of focus groups. It's time for leadership to step up.

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Innovation Competitive Advantage Leadership Christensen 11

Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

I was interested in learning from Mark’s leadership. Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. We conduct focus groups and surveys to gain insight into the key decision drivers as well as candid feedback on product and pricing.

CEO 54

CEO Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing Delegation 54

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

A new research study I led at CTI uncovers, through a nationally representative survey of 3,212 individuals with STEM credentials, and through dozens of additional interviews and focus group conversations, the differentiators of success for women in STEM. Ramos-Kwok resisted that advice. Be authentic. Hone your brand.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Women, certainly, struggle more than men to achieve the look of leadership, a factor that contributes to their overall stall in middle- and upper-middle management. Women are so hypersensitive about their appearance already," one male executive shared in a CWLP focus group. "I

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. After all, one of their most valued employees is an indigenous Peruvian, a man who is respected, well-paid, and included in the leadership team’s decision-making discussions. Inclusive leaders.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

There is simple advice that will help businesses avoid the pitfalls and make a strong online impact. Yes, set up a “focus group” of employees to serve as community leaders who will shepherd your company into the social networking world, but don’t put all of the power in their hands.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Actual market experience, veteran marketers will tell you, never quite matches the results of quantitative and qualitative market research reports and what consumers say they will do behind the two-way glass of a focus group facility. It was the perfect advice and that is exactly what Apple did.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

Should he focus on the industry practice areas where he''d made his name? Global leadership, since he had so much international experience? Sure, your personal brand and your message can be focus-grouped and wordsmithed by others. He had great contacts; newspaper columns and teaching positions could be his for the asking.

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Brand PR Consultative Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

Seems like strategic management 101, but oftentimes companies are unable to ask this question due to turf battles or leadership blind spots. However, the firm's core offering in most other markets was supply chain advice. Companies where rival units are consolidating or an executive is leaving should be the first to ask it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

” It offers practical advice to employers, large and small, based on the latest research on workplace programs, expert advice from practitioners and candid interviews with business leaders. Leadership commitment and support. So what does? There are a few simple ways to start doing this.

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Planning Incentives ROI Long-term 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

I come in after the wrong consultants have given bad advice, after knee-jerk reactions to changing business climates had taken tolls on existing market players. ’ I commissioned focus groups. To test the premise, I staged a focus group dinner meeting at a prominent inner-city church, eliciting ideas and insights.

Franchising 61

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 12, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This is an informal focus group of sorts, where employees can freely and without feeling pressure, share their ideas, see others ideas, and then suggest even more ideas. Do You Really Need To Read Leadership Books?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

My advice to companies as they create charity tie-in, cause-related marketing and community relations activities includes: Don’t say that you want customer input unless you are prepared to hear it. Conduct focus groups. Relate business responses to real and perceived wants/needs of the community. Set priorities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The kickoff cocktail party drew a crowd of parents eager for advice — and curious about this new resource. ” Start by ensuring the group’s leadership is demonstrably diverse; prospective members will want to “see themselves” in the network’s composition. This if for you.”

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