The Practical Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Raise your hand if your organization has a mission statement. When I do that survey during leadership/culture presentations, almost every hand goes up. Mission statements are as common as a logo, website, or budget. Many mission statements sound like they were written by bureaucrats and lawyers.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Your mission is a calling, an innate urge to pursue an activity or perform a service.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

A recent survey conducted by McKinsey found that 42% of millennial and Gen Z consumers cited purpose as the primary reason they switched brands. For example, they preferred brands that shared their values and treated employees well. Your mission is a calling, an innate urge to pursue an activity or perform a service. .

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. So, with the help of WordPress analytics and content judgment, here’s my list of the top ’CEO Afterlife’ blogs of 2011. Why Mission Statements Suck [link]. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link].

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

In today’s post I’ll clearly explain the difference between vision and mission … As as a backdrop to answering today’s question, I want to share a simple organizational framework I developed several years ago to help executives gain a better understanding of leadership structure.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Uncover Effective, Expert Personal Brand Statement Examples​ What do Rand Fishkin, Charlie Puth, and Martha Stewart all have in common? They are all killer personal brand examples. While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Here’s a collection of the best blog posts over the last month written by top leadership bloggers. Thanks to Dan McCarthy over at Great Leadership for organizing it. Welcome to the November 7, 2010, early bird edition of leadership development carnival! Simmons gives us Power: The Heart Of Leadership | Bret L. .&#

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I want to frame my thoughts on the topic of significance by beginning with an excerpt from my book “ Leadership Matters…The CEO Survival Manual “: “By the time you reach the CEO level you should be striving to move beyond success and towards significance.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 13, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Leadership. Why Mission Statements Suck. by John • June 13, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 1 Comment. 2000 by 2000” was Starbucks’ mission twenty years ago. CEO Howard Schultz wanted 2000 stores up and running by the new millennium. Leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 5, 2016

We read about these factors in the quintessential mission statements that occupy real estate in annual reports and gather dust in reception lobbies. But, as a concept it is no different than a long list of other key success factors that organizations strive to achieve.

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Sales Wolf Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Conference Board seeks to drive thought leadership and business results by focusing on four key topical categories: 1) corporate leadership 2) economies, markets, and value creation 3) high-performing organizations, and 4) human capital.  I cannot recommend highly enough that you head over and check it out for yourself!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

Shelly Lazarus has been building brands at Ogilvy & Mather for more than 40 years. Twenty-six years later, having steered successful branding efforts for clients such as IBM, Ford, American Express and Unilever, she was named its Chairman and CEO. and Blackstone recommend to people who want to build their own brand?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fauzia Burke Many of the leadership books I read and sometimes review on my blog I first learn about from FSB Associates , a digital publicity and marketing firm specializing in creating awareness for books and authors. I lead my team to help build digital platforms, online brands, and launch books on the web. What is your title?

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Roundtable Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

25 of the worst leadership lines ever. Posted on September 20, 2010 by LeaderTalker | Leave a comment Just like a classically bad pick up line (“Do fries come with that shake?”), some leaders are notorious for dishing out lame leadership lines. adweekcdn #genesimmons 12 hours ago Every brand has to work hard to stay relevant.

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Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

A personal note: This post is a tribute to Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of Texas Roadhouse who tragically passed in March 2021. What kind of CEO displays his biggest failures on the wall of his office? Texas Roadhouse’s mission statement is “Legendary Food, Legendary Service” . in the past year.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 16, 2010

Even worse is when those sound-bites are used in an attempt to make statements which embolden a corporate position that doesn’t really even exist to begin with. If I only had a nickel for each time a CEO has told me “We have the best talent in the industry.&#

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! Sunday, September 19, 2010 Do you have a brand strategy? A fellow Blogger, Debbie Laskey, shared these keen insights with me: “A brand strategy is the ultimate business strategy and often the least understood."

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Fred Smith, the Founder and CEO of FedEx, once described to us his understanding of The Main Thing—which he refers to as the "theory of the business." we see people digging into their wallets for the latest mission statement. Our good friend, Claude Roessiger has long experience with luxury brand management. Dr. George H.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

Yet I’ve seen so many companies with lofty-sounding “mission statements” and “core values” that have the most toxic workplaces imaginable. Leadership scholar John Gardner calls this outlook “tough-minded optimism,” and it’s a hallmark of cultures that can move and morph with the times.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Revered brands such as Apple or Disney understand that enchantment leads to attachment, not just loyalty, with their customers. Have a challenging mission. Corporate mission statements often are watered down into lowest-common-denominator compromises. In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 17, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! 15 Inspiring Biographies For Leaders 20 New Words Every Leader Should Know Reach Communications & Leadership Expert David Gro. Good Sample Business Principles Do you have a brand strategy? Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the 1970s, the automobile industry introduced new models roughly every eight years; by the 1990s, the product lifecycle had fallen to three years, and, as we know, car brands now need a facelift every two years to stay in the race. CEOs should look in the mirror, and ask themselves: “Is my style like Magath’s, or like Guardiola’s?”.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 20, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! Saturday, March 20, 2010 Read Good To Great Near the top of virtually every list youll see of the best leadership books, youll find Good To Great , by Jim Collins. publicly traded companies and their performance over 40 years. Foster said.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

In the 1970s, the automobile industry introduced new models roughly every eight years; by the 1990s, the product lifecycle had fallen to three years, and, as we know, car brands now need a facelift every two years to stay in the race. CEOs should look in the mirror, and ask themselves: “Is my style like Magath’s, or like Guardiola’s?”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Even the most sophisticated psychometrics and people analytics have yet to make leadership development more science than art. I’ve found no better diagnostic for promoting authentic revelations around personal leadership style and substance. ” Smart leaders want to build their brands.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

The construct came from our CEO Paul Polman. Second, I developed a new marketing strategy called Crafting Brands for Life. This included, for example, refreshing our brand positioning statement – not something a consumer goods business does lightly. He had a mission statement back then – making cleanliness commonplace.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

In the real world of quarterly numbers, though, embracing failure mostly remains a throwaway line in CEO speeches. The transformation of a venerated but legacy brand into a digital leader. Executive leadership has your back. We went radical by re-casting our team’s mission statement into two words: Reinvent PBS.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 21, 2010

Hsieh has done a lot of research on the science of happiness and has brought this science into his leadership philosophy. From the outside, Zappos.com is a successful online retailer, but from the inside Zappos.com has created a mission that is about creating happiness. Skip to content Home Welcome! billion (yes billion) dollars.

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