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Does a Mentor have to Breathe?

In the CEO Afterlife

In the early days of my 40 year business career, I was lucky to work under two gentlemen who instilled several critical success factors that guided me from Brand Manager to CEO. I came up through marketing; quite honestly, during my years in marketing I hadn’t given much thought to HR. Strategy.

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Invest in Digital Marketing to Control Your Destiny

Harvard Business Review

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. By far the best synthesis and summary of the digital keys to the campaign's success is Engage DC's Inside the Cave. It was that good.

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Developing Future Leaders – It’s Imperative Not to Wait!

Great Leadership By Dan

Continuity of company culture, labor shortages, and an unexpected death of a senior manager are just a few important reasons. In his book, Built to Last , Jim Collins describes the very successful succession planning process that GE’s CEO, Reginald Jones, took to find a new CEO. Challenges for Mid-Market Companies.

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My 12 “Must Read” Best Leadership Books for 2014

The Empowered Buisness

While there are many classic leadership books that are still relevant today – like Good to Great and 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – and a flooded market of other business books , I wanted to share …. whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job. Success can be blind, even for the best companies.

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Culture Doesn’t Trump Strategy

In the CEO Afterlife

As a critical success factor, strategy turned into a lucrative industry for a host of consulting firms such as McKinsey & Company , and the Boston Consulting Group. Most leaders and managers know this. In the last 40 years of the 20 th century, strategy was the champion of business supremacy. or so the saying goes.

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