In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. I was Nabob’s VP of Marketing, a 32 year-old disciple of an excellent turnaround CEO – a fellow by the name of Hugo Powell who eventually moved on to Interbrew (now Anheuser-Busch InBev ) as CEO. In the CEO Afterlife.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Companies with a healthy culture gain a positive reputation, not only among employees, but also with customers and the market. Left to its own devices, culture often bubbles up negatively, hurting the growth and success of the company. It is not an afterthought or a nice-to-have plan that they delegate to human resources to develop.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

by John • November 20, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. Michael Jackson , the theme to “Billie Jean” and a phenomenal blend of marketing and entertainment drove the Pepsi brand to the pinnacle of contemporary culture. So, what are Pepsi’s marketers doing to revitalize it?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 5, 2019

Many of those skills aren’t the kinds of things that project managers will pick up without either several years of experience or a carefully-plotted training effort. Still, in a job market where even the least-qualified competition holds industry standard certifications, every effort must be made to stand out.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 14, 2011

by John • April 14, 2011 • Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. In their minds, they have colluded to negate price wars that ravage bottom lines. As much as ‘branded’ companies pride themselves on being ‘value-added’ marketers, they continually exchange ‘price buyers’ with their competition. Leadership.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Diversity is about so much more than human resources issues. It is a mindset that must permeate organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. In either, one element still sinks to the bottom. It opens your services to additional market niches. It means making the most of the organization that we can.

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Chart Your Course

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, many, if not most, employers will wake up to the realization that what they have done in the past will not work going forward. Some companies, particularly start-ups, will not even consider hiring an employee full-time, before s/he has completed at least six months as a contractor.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

According to their human resource department, it is harder to get a job at Zappos than to be accepted at Harvard Business School. It has a huge impact on the bottom line. 9) Customer and market focus. TOOLS, PRODUCTS and RESOURCES The Great Workplace. Creating “happiness” is not just an altruistic thing to do.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

That’s a shame because the aviation industry as a whole still continues to be an industry model for how to operate with extremely high reliability despite having a highly fragmented set of organizational entities. The biggest challenge for companies when it comes to operational excellence is siloed behavior. Recall how the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It is a mindset that permeates organizations from top-down as well as bottom-up. That means doing things correctly the first time, without wasting counter-productive time in cleaning up mistakes. It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Quality is not something that managers assign others to achieve.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Needing a way to capture and document this event, I recruited Dan Evans , our Chief Marketing Officer , to join me on a journey that would span over 42,000 miles on four continents ( 11 countries total, including stops ) to interview and record sessions with experts in the science and art of leadership.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation.and will market their services accordingly. Predict the biggest crises that can beset your company.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post. You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 Interview Highlights. Full Transcript. Ben: Hi everybody.

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

For the full interview, see the video at the bottom of this post. You can also consider a business that awakens a massive industry then dominates the market shares globally at the same time, busting misconceptions about the way the food service industry must treat employees. $16 Interview Highlights. Full Transcript. Ben: Hi everybody.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Recognize the importance of customer service to the bottom line. Executives frequently focus on analyzing the company’s profit and loss to determine where the company is over-spending and being wasteful, and then figure out how to reduce expenses to drive more profit to the bottom line. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2017

The market panicked. The banks that have nearly completed their regulatory agenda have a head start, since they can free up more financial and human resources to address evolving technology. This is most apparent in the credit markets, where revenues have shrunk by more than 40% from pre-crisis peaks.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The value of the shares bought then, in fact, makes up a big chunk of Yahoo’s value today, and the windfall from that purchase is what many hope will allow the company to remake its future. At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

He had spent the last two months interviewing for a position as director of operations at a sporting goods company. His resume was spot-on — he’d spent five years as a sporting goods sales rep and several years as an operations manager doing “everything from ordering for shops, to speaking with dealers, to sales.” I won’t call again.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 5, 2022

The pandemic hasn’t diminished market demand for continuous innovation, but it also presented the opportunity for Bosch to re-evaluate how we build strong relationships and collaborations in an ever-evolving world. . What do you think most boards misunderstand or underestimate about human resources? Charlie Ackerman, Sr.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Our human resources department takes care of that. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Money covers up a lot of ills. Our company has got the most up to date technology.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. Surely, the newfound margin will drop to the bottom line – it will not. Added complexity makes sure of that.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Ahmed accused Damon of throwing up roadblocks and using his power to undermine the sales department. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Fundamentals of managing an organization : (Forecast & Plan) – Examining the future and drawing up a plan of action. To organize – Build up the structure, both material and human, of the undertaking. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. The elements of strategy.). the number of jobs increases.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

Linds gave up the studio and spent his remaining days walking Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf, taking pictures, drawing, making music and writing about living and dying. Others misshapen and graceless fragments, but harboring perhaps the glimmer of a smile or a grain of human truth which had won it’s temporary reprieve from the reject pile.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2018

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

People are accessing, consuming, and sharing content in more varied ways than ever, and marketers have scores of new opportunities to understand, reach, and engage with consumers. The next evolution in digital advertising must be driven by innovative platforms that more effectively help marketers move their businesses forward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. ” On-calls are when employees are scheduled to work shifts that can be canceled anytime up until two hours before they are scheduled to begin. Increasing staffing, they found, could increase sales and profits.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 10, 2011

by John • April 11, 2011 • Human Resources , Strategy • 0 Comments. Bottom line? Sixty-five innovative operations - four in the state of California alone. So why don’t they reduce the number of operations? Kraft’s Worldwide CEO is a lawyer who came up through the legal department.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MAY 30, 2012

Sales went up and the company went into the black. The fact that giant companies don’t operate this way opens the door for the smaller competitor. Businesses who live by these 5 bargains are the ones who enjoy success – both in the journey and the bottom-line destination. Creativity. But, beware.

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