Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 4, 2015

Being a new author, you don’t really know what to expect in terms of book sales, marketing efforts, media exposure, translation rights, etc. How would you summarize the overall reaction to your Lead with a Story book? Any surprises? Paul : Everything is a surprise with your first book. It’s all new territory. I feel you started that trend.

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Storytelling Silverman Armstrong Trends 50

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Patch Woes The Story Behind Why AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Fired an Employee in Front Of 1,000 Coworkers Business Insider For a few days last August, it was one of the most talked-about business stories in America: Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL, fired someone abruptly during a meeting. What made the typically affable Armstrong snap?

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Armstrong Long-term Short-term CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many have to measure their success in terms of stock price and market share, and when those slip, everyone sees it happening, reads about it in the business pages, watches it on CNBC. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. .” How do the best CEOs confront that challenge?

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Abell Armstrong Uncertainty CEO 8

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

For example, Neil Armstrong used the six hours and forty minutes between his moon landing and first step to craft his historic statement. Make sure you have at least a fifteen- to thirty-second message that is so salient it will be obvious to reporters that it should be featured in the broadcasts. Use catchy words.

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Tips Audience Newsletter Armstrong 62

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

A lot of small-firm owners and managers feel that way, and in many cases they’re justifiably proud of their competitive intangibles—a gut sense of the market and the flexibility to change quickly. They were quick to adopt a more formalized approach to marketing planning.

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Loyalty Retail Armstrong Learning-by-Doing 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. At the time, those charged with achieving the goal had questions as to whether it could be done.

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Wilde Armstrong Project Technology 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2018

Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. No doubt these practices also influence consumption behavior, and reaching these spiritually minded shoppers will require more mindful marketing. But using both field and laboratory data, we recently found that grocery spending decreases as religiosity rises.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

There was Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, delivered at the age of 34, and Neil Armstrong walking on the surface of the moon at the age of 38. Their youth brought a feeling of youthfulness to humanity itself, and gave people the sense that nothing is impossible.

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NGO Armstrong Industry Advertising 18

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

I was with Cactus at a remote for Armstrong-Johnson Ford. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. The out-cue was to describe the 1959 Ford model. About the Author.

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Pryor Mentor Learning-by-Doing Audience 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. Consider the "My Dell hell" diatribes by prominent blogger and journalist Jeff Jarvis, or Heather Armstrong's "Maytag Nightmare" that she described in vivid detail to her 1.5

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Steven Armstrong of StevenArmstrong.ca. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. Keep moving! Document your life.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

That means being as quick to market as Chinese companies. Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History (The Atlantic) Lance Armstrong Is Right: His Sponsors Should Have Known He Was Doping (Quartz) Intern Dressed as Royal Guard Stands in Stifling Heat Outside Pizza Hut (Gawker). Now leading U.S. —Andy O''Connell. Innovation'

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Innovation Armstrong Globalization Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

Tim Cook is the stiffest scripted presenter since Neil Armstrong. There are a few important things that he could do a this point in his tenure that I believe would advance his movement toward that destiny in a big way. Make a Self-Deprecating Joke. But most people aren''t bothered by that. What bores them is his unconsciousness about it.

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Delegation Supply Chain Armstrong Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

They didn't get the impact of millions of eight year-old kids watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon, whispering to ourselves, "My God, anything is possible.". It was about demonstrating to ourselves that we were underestimating our potential by massive orders of magnitude.

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Film Armstrong Media Video 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2017

Homogenized content, with far less diversity than an open market would support, was the result. ” The interference problem was the stated premise, but the object of regulators’ desire — and of the interests they loved (or feared) most — was control over wireless markets. Armstrong’s Killer App.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Matrix organizations are becoming more common as organizations grow larger, become more complex, and/or enter global markets. Randy Conley , from Leading with Trust, runs for a TD with Five Leadership Lessons From The Life of Neil Armstrong. "Do you need to coordinate your work with people who report to a different boss?

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Benchmarking 243

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

James Armstrong, a digital marketing consultant for Roman Blinds Direct , used to manage an eight-person team at a digital marketing agency. It actually helped everyone in our department be more productive and was something we should have done a long time ago.” ” Case Study #2: Get help sooner rather than later.

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How To Case Study Armstrong Document 8

Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. 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. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. About the Author.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

As he saw it, that money should go into two basic functions of business: marketing and innovation. Either generating a product that is better quality and allows them to charge more, so that’s innovation, or marketing, which Drucker would say focusing on getting more people buying your product. They should reread what they write.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

If a supplier can use consumer data to shape its offerings and marketing strategies, it has a significantly better chance of survival than its data-deprived competitors. Data exposure focused our feel for the market,” a manager of a tea company told us. “It They are often great places to work, too.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

And with coal and nuclear power being seen as uncompetitive on cost, solar and wind will "continue to gain market share" into the foreseeable future, Citi analysts say. When Lance Armstrong was a hero, his Livestrong nonprofit raised hundreds of millions of dollars to help cancer patients and their families. power industry.

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Henderson Armstrong Industry Media 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

A group of us bought the company from the Armstrong Group in a buy-out in 2007. I'm the CEO of Desso , a European company that makes carpets, carpet tiles and synthetic sports surfaces. I'm also an owner. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI. We did that.

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Strategy McKinsey Chemicals Armstrong 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2013

To shareholders, to the markets, to "consumers." Lance Armstrong's true north seems to have been trophies — not championships; and the result, I'd bet, is a life that now feels arid, empty, wasted. Here are some pretty good answers, if a snoozer of a year in a cavernous landfill of a life is what you're after.

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How To Armstrong Learning-by-Doing Belief Systems 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images. Fox News was introduced in 1996 and by 2000 was broadcast in geographic markets that housed 50% of U.S. The media landscape in the U.S. has changed in important ways over the last 50 years, some subtle and some not subtle at all. publicly traded companies.

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