Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2012

I got an (unsolicited) email offering a webinar to teach me about how to measure, and the importance of measuring, the ROI of social media. They spoke over CEOs, media, newspapers, government, lobbyists, and politicians. If Bezos measured the ROI at Amazon in the first five years, he would have quit. TOTAL JOKE.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 23, 2018

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Digital transformation starts at a strategic level with leadership being committed to change. Advisory Services Focused on Leadership Training & Organization.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 28, 2018

While your company may have a think tank of brilliant strategists devising new inroads into your market, what you will soon learn is that any strategy is doomed to fail if it isn’t executed as brilliantly as it was conceived. If not, it’s time you invested in your key players to raise up a leadership team by department.

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CO2

APRIL 28, 2013

As executive coaching continues to expand, the field is shifting away from a therapeutic model to a greater emphasis on business performance, leadership, and communication. In the past decade or so, coaching has become increasingly professional and leadership development is now the largest market segment.

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Thin Difference

JUNE 29, 2019

The ROI of learning is clear when you realize that companies who invest in recurrent, intentional employee training yield 24 percent more of a profit margin than companies who overlook this resource, according to the Association for Talent Development. How will you talk about it in marketing? Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Too many business leaders are preoccupied with the next answer to growth and find themselves stretched thin – trying to play in too many disparate markets and pursuing multiple strategies and directions that undermine rather than reinforce each other. As a result, they forgo the right to win in any market. .

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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.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JULY 9, 2010

  Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.   Weekly topics are wide and varied and include just about everything from innovation and communication to leadership and corporate social responsibility.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 26, 2011

’” “In studies … as much as half of the difference in operating profit between organizations can be attributed to effective cultures … an organization’s culture provides especially significant competitive advantages in bad times … all of this is possible with little or no capital investment, yielding an infinite ROI.

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Heskett Competitive Advantage ROI Organization 49

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

  One unique feature of their knowledge resource center that I particularly like is that in addition to publishing great primary research, they also compile secondary market data and research and organize it into convenient and easy to read tables and graphs that make following government data and macroeconomic trends a breeze. 

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

He is Chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. About the Author Barry Libert is the author of Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business.

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Guidelines Management Media Newsletter 62

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. This emerging social era is about engaging everyone around you to redefine what you do and how you do it – including sales, marketing, R&D, customer support, and product development.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Open-book Company 66

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 22, 2010

Share this: This entry was posted in Engagement , Leadership , results , Team building and tagged Max Carbone , strategic planning , Team performance , top team building tips , What Really Works. the losers that were at the bottom of the heap). If you want accountability, then people have to have a say in how things are going to roll out.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Whether you’re a man or a woman, it’s time to start embracing your feminine side (and yes, many women have squelched their natural leadership style for far too long). Women tend to have less ego tied up in leadership. And that’s a good thing, because traditional leadership no longer works in the social business world.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

As the chairman and CEO of Mzinga ® , a company that provides social software to businesses, quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy. Yes, blogs are fun to read and to write – and they can also be used to grow your business, engage business partners, and establish thought-leadership.

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Media Learning-by-Doing Newsletter Blog 57

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga, a company that provides social software to businesses. Marketing 101 principles still apply. If you don’t want your company’s social strategy to fall flat, there are some guidelines you’ll need to follow. Quite literally, it’s my job to be social media savvy.

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Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Here, I think, are five important reasons that companies fail at business model innovation: CEOs don't really want a new business model. The most obvious reason companies fail at business model innovation is because CEOs and their senior leadership teams don't want to explore new business models. Think iPod.

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Business Model Innovation Company ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2013

A simple summary of the work suggests that CEOs believe that CIOs are not in sync with the new issues CEOs are facing, CIOs do not understand where the business needs to go, and CIOs do not have a strategy, in terms of opportunities to be pursued or challenges to be addressed in support of the business.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Never confuse power with leadership. Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP followed Jim, or at least attempted to…While Bill has a successful track record in business going all the way back to his years as an entrepreneurial teenager, his presentation was horrid (sorry Bill). It was full of trite cliches and worn out leadership rhetoric.

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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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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt.

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

They simply cannot answer it because it's way too early to know what the ROI will be. They will try hard to extrapolate numbers from market trends and past experience, rather than thinking about customers, good ideas, and new paradigms. This question scares innovation team and forces them to tell lies. Are you meeting your milestones?"

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Don’t believe the hype: Not every business is using AI… yet.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The Truly strategic leaderships — and their boards — should treat Brin's "worst idea" as their most provocative thought experiment for revisiting how they recognize and value data. What a pity. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

CEO Ginni Rometty is leading the company into new areas, betting big on its Watson software and cloud computing. IBM leadership must have the courage to quickly modify or even eliminate the ones that aren’t working according to plan. To address medium-term opportunities, IBM formed partnerships with hospitals (e.g.,

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Venture Capitalist Short-term ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2017

The market is pushing companies to hit incredibly high numbers, quarter after quarter and month after month. Increasing market pressures from Wall Street and investors, heightened competition, and fears for the future of the national and global economy all come into play. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs.

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Cost Company Tactics ROI 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Strategic plans necessarily involve hypotheses that certain outcomes (increased revenue, improved margins, higher ROI) will result from a given set of initiatives. The leadership challenge, however, is to make sure that it’s more than just a corporate exercise – or bad theater. Escape from template tyranny.

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Strategic Planning Planning Tips Disintermediation 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

Nokia’s CEO was featured on the cover of Forbes magazine in 2007, with the headline “Nokia: A billion customer and counting. In one, a star researcher said that he was leaving as there was no space for creativity anymore, as the company squeezed budgets and eliminated roles without a clear ROI. Eliminate bureaucracy.

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Company Competitive Advantage Bureaucracy Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

During my second year, when it became utterly apparent that the new products were not going to hit their targets, the Times shifted to growth-minded leadership. Marketers market themselves, directors research deals, the executive talent team doesn’t recruit — that is very much “organism think.”

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Innovation Bottom-up Organization ROI 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. People will stop honoring or identifying with the organization. Cautionary tales abound. If so, how?

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Positioning Hamel Company Charisma 78

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

And while research about financial performance is still in its infancy — Catalyst has found a strong correlation between the number of women on boards and in the C-Suite and ROI and ROE of company returns — we’re starting to learn more about the important ways women are changing the inner workings of boards.

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Osgood ROE Diversity Bond 8

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Tweet This Post Tagged as: Leadership , Social Media { 10 comments… read them below or add one } Brandon Cox January 24, 2010 at 10:21 pm It’s funny to me how boardrooms are now addressing a subject that grassroots marketers and small business owners have adopted ahead of time. Popularity: 8% [ ? Two points I would add.

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Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Almost any enterprise you can think of, no matter the industry or sector, is trying (or being pressured by competitors) to use new technology to harness the vast new oceans of data being generated by smartphones, sensors, digital cameras, GPS devices, and myriad other sources of information originating from customers and markets.

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Technology Metrics Budgeting CIO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Mauro Porcini is PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer—the first to hold the position—where he oversees design-led innovation across all the company’s brands under CEO Indra Nooyi. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough. How do you define design?

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

CO2

JANUARY 15, 2017

‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Sometimes this distancing happens gradually, and sometimes it happens quickly–soon after a bad hire, a failure of leadership, or a divisive decision/event.

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