In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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CEO Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I read a gripping book on the weekend - Resurrecting the Street - Overcoming the Greatest Operational Crisis in History by Jeff Ingber. It is the story of what happened to the bond and stock markets during Sept 11. Ingber is a Wall Street veteran who lived through the crisis first hand. The stories were horrific.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 21, 2015

Markets are moving! When the alarm goes off and the dreamers awake, it will be pandemonium in the stock market." -- Bob Prechter, from the just-released Elliott Wave Theorist. You would agree that markets around the world have served investors a lot of surprises lately: Crude oil just fell to $40 a barrel, a 6 1/2-year low.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Improving internal communications in the workplace can benefit a company in innumerable ways, from helping employees build better bonds with each other to helping each person at the organization fully understand their roles. to this space to encourage employees to utilize it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The unusual part was in managing this crisis that attracted national headlines. A promise is a promise was their unspoken shackle bonded with truth and trust. Formerly the Vice President in the Office of the Brand Custodian of Tata Sons, Mr. Kalé has supported brand and marketing thought leadership initiatives for over 25 years.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 24, 2015

They failed to change and became irrelevant, left behind by emerging competitors more in tune with the market. When the global financial crisis struck in 2008, FCB New Zealand saw its revenue growth potential evaporate as clients cut marketing budgets. How is it possible that so many top companies made this same fatal mistake?

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Weather cycles, economic (including stock market) cycles, political cycles and warfare cycles have and will continue to be the basis for worldwide change. The global agriculture crisis's supply and demand imbalance has caused commodities to spike and food to become less affordable.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

When you take part in gossip you do none of these things. In fact, gossip seriously undermines each one of the aforementioned success metrics by propagating inaccurate information.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash. The insurance company would repay the money market investor’s post note of $970, yielding a $30 profit for both the insurance company and the investor. .

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

After more than 18 months, a dozen and a half summits, multiple rounds of austerity, a trillion dollars of liquidity, and now elections in Greece and France that threaten to overturn the fragile policy consensus in Europe, the Euro-crisis rumbles on. Second, we need to ask what is this a crisis of ?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

A leader who fails to understand this will never create the trust bond necessary to lead effectively. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Follow Through : It takes no ability to simply do what you say you’re going to do. Would love to teach my staff this lesson with your permission.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. But the ECB's most powerful weapon — intervening in the bond market — is still locked away.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The earliest PSAs promoted the selling of war bonds and were shown in movie theatres during World War I and II. Others cut into programs and services in order to fund marketing. I opined that agencies felt compelled to spend funds to compete with each other in the arena of marketing. Create plausible narratives.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Each subsequent question, follow-up question, and connection will build a stronger friendship bond between you. Once you make the ‘connection’, you begin to build a rapport of trust between you and the person your connecting with. It might be an article, a web site, an acquaintance you might know — to give to them at a later date.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Leaders need to understand that being authentically humble humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence & loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. While feigned humility is the height of insincerity, authentic humility is the most sincere form of confidence and strength.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Leaders need to understand that compassion humanizes them, allows them to build stronger trust bonds, and engenders confidence and loyalty from peers and subordinates alike. It takes far more courage to display love than disinterest, as compassion requires an investment of time, caring, empathy and understanding.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You hit my point exactly – a good hug between people transfers something, a closeness, a bond. Rich Gee 12.20.10 at 8:39 AM Tim – I think I hit a place in your heart (and mind) with this one. I always love your comments! Happy holidays! – Rich Tim Trent 12.20.10 at 9:00 AM It has to be experienced, Rich. Unported License.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2015

Prior to the global financial crisis, deflation looked like a uniquely Japanese problem. The policy response to the global financial crisis exacerbated and entwined these trends still further. Interest rates of zero meant that central banks took to targeting asset prices – stocks and bonds – to boost spending.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This is a bonded collaboration toward each other’s success. 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 mentor stands for mentees throughout their careers and celebrates their successes. About the Author.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Accepting a person where they are, creates an bond of trust. The following perspectives if kept top of mind will help in identifying and bridging positional gaps: Respect leads to acceptance. Trust, leads to a willingness to be open to: new opportunities; new collaborations; new strategies; new ideas, and; new attitudes.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The latest Euro crisis summit was different from the 19 others that preceded it in one very important respect: The PR department of the EU played this one very well. And market participants were initially thrilled. Yields on sovereign bonds fell immediately following the deal's announcement. in one day, an unprecedented drop.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2011

You could even argue that there's a bit of a haircut going on since longer-dated, lower-interest bonds are presumably worth less than shorter-dated bonds with higher rates. Governments seldom succeed in bucking the bond markets, which so memorably impressed the American political consultant and Clinton adviser James Carville.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it’s kind of sort of about to start ever-so-timidly pulling back on the massive monetary stimulus it’s been pouring out since the financial crisis. Still, even Eichengreen thought the policy shift was too inconsequential to justify the market reaction.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2014

When Shanghai Chaori Solar Energy, a Chinese solar cell-maker and power-generator, missed an interest payment on its bonds in February 2014, the Chinese government didn’t intervene. Sino-Capital Guaranty Trust is confronting the reality that insuring commercial bonds is not a risk-free business. But it hasn’t.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

In my former position as Managing Director of Philip Morris Ukraine where I was based from January 2012 until February 2015, I was forced to see it as a business crisis that threatened our people, operations, and bottom line. ” A crisis breeds pervasive dread. We called this bonding “tent time.” Avoid secrecy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2014

Argentina lost big to a group of American “vulture” hedge funds in court last week, when the Supreme Court declined to reconsider an appeals court decision that the funds had the right to demand that the country make good on a bunch of old bonds they owned even though it long ago renegotiated the terms of that debt with most creditors.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2012

The past year or so of Euro-crisis has turned me into a fan of the currency markets. Currency markets impose a fair amount of transaction costs on individuals and businesses, which is of course why people were so enthusiastic about the Euro. And what kinds of policies make them rush for the door?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

And if you doubt it, ask Toyota about the impact their latest crisis has had on their market share. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says that negative actions of the recession (pay cuts, layoffs, slashed budgets and poor communications) “are combining to erode the bonds of trust between some employers and their employees.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2013

John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. Over time, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein demonstrated in a great 2002 article in the Financial Analysts Journal , stock market returns should and do trail economic growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

The alternative, of course, is to restore the currency markets. Southern companies and the governments would have to pay more to borrow internationally, to be sure, but at this point, a great deal of that premium may already be priced into their bond prices in the euro. Still, a forced exit from the euro would be seen as humiliating.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. He was simply rationalizing a corporate marketing initiative. Do not run your “foundation” out of a corporate marketing department. He was not listening.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2017

Next, you’ll want to balance your bonding and bridging capital. In 2008, less than two years after starting my marketing strategy consultancy, I took a leap of faith. View your conference attendance aspirationally, as a chance to connect with the people whom you wish to have as your peers in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2018

When my firm helps executives craft talks that will persuade and forge bonds with listeners, we often have to help them recall or dig up latent stories that come from a deep place of personal conviction. Learn what market pressure may be on the minds of your audience. Choose Stories with Your Audience in Mind.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

However CEOs that implement a well thought out and clearly articulated vision, create a sense of stability and a bond of trust amongst the ranks. A lack of clarity, the presence of ambiguity, obviously flawed business logic, or constantly shifting priorities/positions are the death of many a venture.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T. Servers are a major expenditure, and a faulty server can lead to a crisis. So it gives you added freedom.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2011

Over the past decade, S&P and its rival Moody's helped bring on the financial crisis by completely flubbing their evaluations of subprime mortgage securities and the derivatives built atop them. S&P, Moody's, and third wheel Fitch deserve all the criticism they've gotten over the financial crisis. You should all be fired."

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