The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

Their reputation or “leadership brand” has become as critical to their success as the company brand they are selling in their market. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture. They brand themselves and the workplace.

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Energy Crisis Absenteeism Leadership 52

Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

We [at FedEx] have a very clear business mission and a business theory which is understood certainly by every member of the management team, and probably by 90 percent of the work force.". The CEO of Connecticut's Farmington Bank told George that its Main Thing is to "Drive economic development in central Connecticut.".

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Organization Mission Statement How To COO 284

Coaching Tip

JUNE 29, 2015

The "SEVEN DISCIPLINES OF A LEADER" details how to: Emulate leaders whose behaviors foster open, two-way communication with the team. Leadership Development Investments. Building Your Leadership Brand. Managing a Successful Career. Identify how ego gets in the way of effectiveness. Only then will people be motivated.

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Leadership Brand Management Open-book Motivation 70

Lead on Purpose

JUNE 2, 2012

Instead, product and brand managers are organized into coalitions that serve as a resource one to another. In my experience, there are three major competencies that when developed, create a magnetic leadership style. Once again this is a personal development issue. Authenticity. So how does one become transparent?

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Leadership Apparel Productivity Products 200

N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

The preceding description paints the perfect illustration of why branding is one of my favorite topics…It is complex. Unless you are a very large enterprise it is unlikely that you have the time, money, staffing, or external professional relationships to execute a brand management strategy such as the one outlined above.

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Brand Blog How To Public Relations 271

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2016

Similar to the brand of a company, your personal brand is the feeling and experience that people have when they interact with you, think about you, or talk about you. Do you have an identifiable personal brand? Managing your personal brand can be one of the most important things you do as you progress in business.

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Career Company Brand Long-term 50

Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Over the past 27 years of my career in marketing, brand management and executive search + coaching, I’ve found time and again that organizations have blind-spots when hiring talent. People can’t handle constant change unless they’re highly involved with the direction of the product, company and team. It’s human nature.

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Emotional Intelligence CTO Stress Exit Strategy 75

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Are you engaging and retaining frontline team members through effective employer brand management ? Are you living your brand from the inside out? Is career development fostering engagement ? Do most people in your team or across your organization Lead, Follow, or Wallow?

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Simon Discount Hotels Open-book 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. How do you prevent a drop-off?

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 17, 2009

It’s often in the realms of business development and leadership, creating their business and life visions, co-designing their relationships with each other, and even creating their signature or key note speeches. It’s great space. And we work on whatever is “up” in their life.

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Hotels Brand Brand Management Creativity 70

Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 23, 2011

In addition, all these jobs kept him in top physical condition, reinforced his work ethic, and made him a better athlete on the baseball team. He had always wanted to play in sand lot games and be liked by his friends, but no one wanted him on their team. At 14 he played for two teams and coached a little league team.

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Sports Learning-by-Doing Construction Brand Management 78

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 9, 2020

Focus on Your Own Branding. Some digital marketing agencies are so busy working on the branding of others that they simply forget to work on their own brand management. Develop Comprehensive Procedures. It is never advisable to set your price low in order to satisfy a few customers. Hire Professionals.

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Marketing Tips Succession Price 17

Roundtable Talk

DECEMBER 17, 2010

It’s a good exercise to do and eye-opening as a leader to see how you’d like to be perceived vs. how your team really is interpreting your actions and behaviours. Share this: This entry was posted in Career Management , Communication and tagged Dorothy Lazovik , how to create your brand , managing your brand , personal branding.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2016

The greater your or your team’s decision rights, the more empowered and accountable you are. That is, digitally linking the relevant individuals and teams identified in a RACI review should be straightforward. Decision rights are needed to determine and define how brand management and data management collaborate.

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RACI Agility Brand Management Decentralization 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Remember that connections are not the same thing as relationships, but that connections can develop into relationships with the proper effort on your part. link] mikemyatt Hi Jerry: Kudos to you and your team on the closing, and even more so for your approach. What more proof does one need?

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 19, 2011

’ Just this week, I sat in on a client management meeting during which the president and owner of the company told her team that she wanted ‘buy in’ from the team before putting a strategy in place. Warring camps develop, each seeking supremacy in what has become a political organization. Absolutely not.

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Marketing Objective Short-term Discount 50

Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 8, 2018

Debbie Laskey developed her brand marketing and communications expertise while working in the high-tech industry, the Consumer Marketing Department at Disneyland Paris in France, the nonprofit arena, and the insurance industry. 5] LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN Set up alerts for your brand, company name, industry, and more.

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Brand Tips Media Customer Loyalty 50

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2014

A brand can’t just be a promise; it must be a promise delivered. And brand stewardship can no longer be under the exclusive purview of marketing departments and brand managers. Brands may drive communications activities, but little else.

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Brand Strategy Advertising Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

Developing an integrated communications capability within your organization will give you just that. It will also enhance your reputation and the value of your brand. A strong strategic foundation: Many organizations view their communication teams as a service resource or as process enablers. It's essential to your business.

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Brand Audience Tools Planning 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Ford, for example, reengineered its global product development process to keep all parties, including suppliers, up to date on the status of new products in its pipeline. And they are using long-established approaches such as sharing data, online standards and templates, and using teams that map processes. Knowledge work redesign.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

In some technology companies, for example, software development is critical to business success. So the best-performing companies in this industry make sure that software development roles are filled with star talent. In other industries brand management matters more, so the A players tend to be clustered there.

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Company Sample Software Brand Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

They inhibit brilliant silo-spanning marketing, cross-silo offerings, brand consistency over products and markets, disciplined organization-wide marketing resource allocation, and the development of marketing excellence centers for capabilities such as social media or events. In fact team building can be the primary objective.

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Brand Aaker Objective Team Building 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2016

As a result, respondents said the business doesn’t develop the right insights, get the information to the right people, or make the moves that could add real value. For example, at Progressive Insurance , the marketing team collected data on how mobile app users were behaving. Data-Driven Insight.

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Marketing Content Insurance Brand 8

HR Digest

JUNE 27, 2021

Hard skills can be an exhaustive list, hence we have pared it down somewhat to include technical and management skills. Brand Management. Supply chain management. Collaborations and conflict resolution are good skills to leverage as, again, working in a team where most business is carried out online is an advantage. .

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Skills Supply Chain Emotional Intelligence Affiliate Marketing 116

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

Even those employees who don’t have direct customer contact understand and embrace their role in delivering on-brand customer experiences. To cultivate employee brand engagement, consider the multidimensional approach used by Lilian Tomovich, chief experience officer and CMO of MGM Resorts, and her team.

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Company Brand Report Training 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

By the 2000s, they had developed a methodology for a new class of culture-specific line extensions for specific markets, helping drive growth. ” Successfully managing with culture in mind is an art based on judgment – like a tightrope act, it hinges on balance. Recategorize.

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Globalization Company Self-aware Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The CMO, who didn't "own" the product line but was responsible for brand and strategic positioning, said that he understood the value proposition but felt it blurred the "premium" positioning he wanted that product to have. He wouldn't approve any further development. Apparently, it doesn't matter. There was no good answer.

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Venture Capitalist Due Diligence Innovation Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We recently worked with a department store retailer and a team of analysts looking for creative insights into customer loyalty. In our experience, they can come either from the experience of an expert in the sector or brand, as was the case in the previous example, or from qualitative research using observation or in-depth interviews.

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Analysis Loyalty Customer Loyalty Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

It’s how their executives develop the skills to lead across cultures and learn the inner workings of a global business; it’s how rising leaders advance into the senior ranks. You and Your Team Series. Many companies expect their aspiring leaders to work abroad. That’s the reality. Career Transitions. Andy Molinsky.

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Career Globalization Constraint Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

leadership team realized that to get every employee to connect with customers, they had to find a way to give "the customer" a name and a face. The leadership team realized they had two types of customers. Using continuous improvement methods, a team tests a new offer with a small group of customers first to see whether it resonates.

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Process Marketing Bottom-up Brand Management 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Other start-ups develop a core technology that has myriad possible uses and they’re not quite sure which will be most appealing, so they plan to just put it out on the market and let customers decide. It may be tempting to skip brand development in the rush to get a new product to market.

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Brand Ries Entrepreneur Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's. The team "regularly tested" as many as 18 variations on subject line and email copy. It was that good. Of course, the analysts were using Facebook and Twitter data, as well.

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Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Food fads develop quickly in today’s marketplace. Amid this changing environment, you’ll find rows and rows of marketing teams at the Mid-Western headquarters of America’s largest food companies — in no industry does marketing appear to play a more prominent role. Put the product ahead of the brand. Kale, quinoa, or chia anyone?

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Word of Mouth Marketing Brand Marketing Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

15 years ago Marmite's own "Love It or Hate It" campaign evolved out of a difference of tastes among the creative team at DDB London. The campaign's longevity and fame reflects the fact that even in its country of origin, the brand's strong taste is "challenging." In 2010, the brand spoofed the British elections.

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Brand Media Brand Management Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2016

Maybe a brand manager is moved to a different department, but little else changes – the same consultants are hired, the same “best practices” are pursued – and organization itself rarely actually learns. Use competitive intelligence differently. Study personal use of intelligence.

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Planning Competitive Intelligence Pharmaceuticals Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Some companies now actively involve stars in their product development process and other aspects of their businesses. Undoubtedly, some of these relationships are simply glorified brand endorsements and can be classified as CDINO (Creative Director In Name Only), but some celebrities are having a bona fide impact on companies.

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Creativity Brand Advertising Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2014

For example, new product development may be the lifeblood of a consumer products company—and thus need to be cultivated and resourced carefully—while in a low-cost producer, or fast follower company, product development may be only a nice-to-have activity.

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