Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The job seeker, Manos Katsampoukas, sent his resume to 4000 recruiters politely asking for a position in finance or marketing. But still, did he deserve the following response — in which Chaplin said he spoke for "all 4,000 people you have emailed" — "Please f off — you are too stupid to get a job, even in banking.".

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PR McCarthy Learning-by-Doing Sports 218

Leading Blog

MARCH 7, 2013

For example, in the mid-1990s, Chase Bank witnessed a nine digit windfall predicting mortgage outcome. Local crime increases after public sporting events. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Online daters more consistently rated as attractive receive less interest.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

That’s why I was fascinated by Unfiltered Marketing: 5 Rules to Win Back Trust, Credibility, and Customers in a Digitally Distracted World by Stephen Denny and Paul Leinberger. We view control over our time as more important than “lots of money in the bank” as a sign of success. Everything begins with the collapse of trust.

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Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Online marketing is all the rage these days and for good reason. However, an effective brand marketing strategy should be multi-dimensional. Effective brand marketing involves not only making your business visible but also building trust in your brand. Promotional items have been a marketing mainstay for many years.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

Let me highlight 3 companies, separated by 162 years: NBA Math Hoops : What do you do when you’re 19, in college, and have a burning passion to help underprivileged kids learn math using their passion for sports? You create a scalable solution! Meet Khalil Fuller. We can all learn from their transformative innovations.

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Business Model Constraint Innovation Licensing 154

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2013

Playing to Win : The Sport of Selling and How You Can Win the Game by Allen Guy. Playing To Win is a convergence of sports analogies and practical business skills to educate and entertain readers as they further develop their sales abilities. The market is filled with self-help books promising to propel one’s sales career to the top.

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Sports Open-book Follow-up Career 50

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 27, 2011

The key to competitive advantage is setting the strategic game rules of the marketplace and shattering market paradigms with entrepreneurial leadership. We viewed business as a combination of sport and war where success wasn’t enough; the other guy had to fail. link] #branding #marketing #advertising #design Follow Me on Twitter.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

As everyone knows, the stock market tanked a few years ago when "the real estate bubble" burst. The market fell apart because a lot of high-level bank executives did the wrong things. They were inattentive, reckless, irresponsible, unscrupulous and disloyal to their banks stakeholders.

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Skills Banking Real Estate Education 90

HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These destinations often have a variety of water-based activities to enjoy, such as boating, fishing, and water sports. For outdoor adventures, the Columbia River Gorge and Mount Hood offer hiking, climbing, and water sports. For outdoor adventures, the Barton Creek Greenbelt and Lady Bird Lake offer hiking, biking, and water sports.

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Tips Team Building Class Hotels 105

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In the age before the digital revolution, marketers used to tell customers about a product and then work through a traditional step-by-step purchase funnel. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports. In sports, every second matters.

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The Idolbuster

AUGUST 5, 2014

My experience ended up being so overwhelmingly positive, I was immediately hooked on the sport (and yes, I beat him!!). After I won that second triathlon, I sat back and believed that I had what it would take to be great at this sport. I remember when I was working in banking and had just become serious about triathlon.

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Training Sports Learning-by-Doing Banking 70

Rajesh Setty

MAY 11, 2011

Entrepreneurship is rarely a solo sport and you will notice that as you read the story. She is from the banking world (close to nine years with Citibank and Silicon Valley Bank) – so the first thing was to find a development partner. Getting the bank account setup. What charities to support. Signing up for hosting.

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Case Study Press Release Brand Banking 45

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. Bold and bombastic does not, in my opinion, mean leadership – we have so many of these aggressive people in power today and all they do is yak, yak, yak and fill their bank accounts. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Blog Learning-by-Doing CEO Strategy 332

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens? Consider traditional banks, which Gartner estimates spend an average of about 66% of their IT budgets to maintain legacy IT systems vs. just 22% to grow the business and 12% to transform it. sweetvenom/Getty Images. None of these are easy questions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3% Ironically, the most empathic FTSE companies are a bank and a tobacco firm. Royal Bank of Scotland/NatWest.

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

In preparing for a brand experience workshop with a retail banking customer recently one key element became pretty clear: You have to work from the outcomes back. Instead, I can tell them: “I want your teachers to say you’re honest, sports coaches to say you’re hardworking, and grandparents to say you’re well-behaved. Made it specific.

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Brand Team Retail Banking 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

Think of going to a movie, attending a sporting event, enjoying a concert, or visiting a museum. It is for this exact reason that no industry has more commoditized itself than banking: Banks came to view spending time with customers as costing them money.

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Banking Short-term Sports Travel 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The fact that they are joined at the hip in so many people's minds means that marketing agencies are thriving — but that the rest of our organizations are not. But too many major companies — Bank of America, Sports Authority, United Airlines, Best Buy, and Walmart to name just a few — that need to get it, don't.

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Strategy Disaggregation Reis eBook 18

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Melissa knew Lindsay, who knew David, who knew Nancy, an HR executive at a local bank. Todd Herman , now a performance coach for executives and top athletes, grew up as a sports fanatic in Western Canada, and began speaking for free to local youth sports associations about his work coaching teens on “winning the mental game.”

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Sports How To Consultative Human Resources 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market. They must close the gap between what was true about the market yesterday and what the new truth is today. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way. The new paradigm: Time is your enemy. But then we sobered up.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The middle class, long the bread and butter of consumer companies of all kinds, is shrinking as a percentage of the population in mature markets. And in emerging markets, where many consumer companies have been laying their bets for the future, growth has started to slow. In emerging markets, that number is even higher, at 90%.

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Maturity Advertising Marketing Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. Lloyds Banking Group was caught in the eye of the financial storm and tied up in public ownership. This is not even a marketing partnership. Partners were receptive.

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Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

Corporations like Goldman Sachs, HBO, Deutsche Bank, Target, and the Bank of America (among others) tout the productivity-related benefits of meditation to their employees – developments celebrated in the recent book Mindful Work by David Gelles. But what about allowing mindfulness to just be?

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Tools Productivity Products Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

But their impact on sales has been underwhelming, primarily because they ignore the needs of one key constituent: the frontline employee working to make the best possible marketing decisions day by day. Measuring Marketing Insights. Some just give up entirely and look for a different role. Insight Center. Turning data into action.

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Retail Banking Chief Information Officer Report 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2013

They might even convince you that spending this extra cash on the newest tablet on the market, or Daft Punk’s next album, will motivate them to work “harder, better, faster, stronger.”. First, National Australia Bank gave some of their employees money to spend on charities. Take what they say with a grain of salt. Aknin, Michael I.

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Norton Morale Pharmaceuticals Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

"When I was interviewing [job candidates] at Morgan Stanley, if I got a female candidate — because it''s banking and you need to be aggressive, you need to be tough — if she played, like, ice hockey, done. Sports are important in American upper-middle-class culture.

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Sports Class Micromanagement Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Wells Fargo has become the most valuable bank in the world by sticking to its strategy of building a value proposition around selling more products per customer than anyone else. How Samsung Gets Innovations to Market. When Innovation Is Strategy. An HBR Insight Center. How Boards Can Innovate. Strategy'

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Company Supply Chain Airlines Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Corporate investment in artificial intelligence is predicted to triple in 2017 , becoming a $100 billion market by 2025. For example, advanced image recognition can be used to track the position of brand logos that appear in video footage of a sporting event, such as a basketball game. Retail shelf analysis.

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Process Company Supply Chain Software 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Wells Fargo bank is under scrutiny from regulators for creating false client accounts to boost short-term profits. market is held by buy-and-hold investors who are actually interested in the long-term value of the companies in which they’ve invested.

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CEO Short-term Long-term McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I recently argued that in industries such as distribution and logistics (Amazon, FedEx, UPS), process manufacturing (Exxon), insurance (Aetna), restaurants (McDonald's), and retail banking (Bank of America, Citibank, Wells Fargo), continuous process improvement is essential. Because it isn't their sport.

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Process CEO Operations Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In March 2008, Lula convened his political marketeer João Santana and Dilma to present his overall plan of making Dilma his successor. Financial markets, historically sensitive and nervous during elections, watched with unusual calm the battles between Dilma and Serra.

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Politics Bureaucracy Globalization Compliance 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

A succession of CEOs prior to Rick Wagoner (who fought heroically to overcome the dreadful hand he was dealt) allowed all manner of legacy costs to build up (retiree health, Jobs Bank, etc.) market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. market: small and mid-car. And in the U.S.

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Company Franchising Fixed Costs Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In a recent interview, the lead investigator pointed out that online reaction to the Dick’s Sporting Goods decision to stop selling assault rifles and require all gun buyers to be 21 was met with a large degree of negative sentiment online but more positive sentiment offline.

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Brand Analysis Merchandising Advertising 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2016

There are many different makes and models on the market. With online ordering, the factor could be location for food retailing, store presentation for banking, or hours of operation for flight bookings. .” It’s relevant when we come to describing business models and their likely impact.

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Business Model Airlines Retail Travel 8