Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

In case you haven't heard of Elon Musk, he's a cofounder of PayPal , the CEO of Tesla Motors and the CEO of SpaceX.   After all, what's the market for six figure sports cars?  Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image.   Very sweet. 

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Executive Coaching Blog Letter Execution 141

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

One of the things I think is most interesting is there’s a lot of old models of innovation and of strategy that I won’t say they don’t necessarily apply anymore, but they apply to very, very, almost static markets. That’s not our market position, so we don’t need to worry about it. DAVID: Yeah.

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Early Adopters Rogers Disruptive Innovation Innovation 60

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

  A lot of this, I think, is driven by the 24/7 expectations that are made possible by our communications technology.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market. Leadership is more complicated.  Nancy is awesome.

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Laswell Blog Executive Coaching Learning-by-Doing 183

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

” He put up posters that read: “Send they a letter.” Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. ” It was no longer an acceptable excuse.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The criticisms of Léo Apotheker as Hewlett-Packard's CEO are easy to list. The general reason was expressed well in a letter from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to his customers explaining his recent unpopular decisions: "Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly."

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CEO Price Committee Letter 11

Sales Wolf Blog

MAY 21, 2010

   You will find their research in a variety of formats like case studies, surveys, white papers, newsletter articles, and editorial-like letters from Buck team members on select issues.    Why do they do all this?    Why do they do all this? 

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Resources Consultative White Paper Human Resources 100

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

The Washington Post Max Schireson, the chief executive of database company MongoDB, was working the typical crazy full-time hours of a CEO. The model isnt perfect: It has an expensive subscription rate, and places like Gawker have been using it free for months (the downside of Slack''s marketing approach).

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CEO Letter Industry Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2018

billion people, the Chinese consumer market is a tempting target for Western technology companies. The recent news that Google is considering a re-entry into China further highlights a troubling balancing act faced by technology companies looking to do business there. With over 1.3 Regulatory creep.

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Ethics Technology Short-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5 Conspicuously absent from the photo was Uber’s CEO , Travis Kalanick. counterparts tenfold.

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Marketing CEO Mass Marketing Price 8

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

He put up posters that read: "Send they a letter." Now, Xerox is reviving its copying business by focusing on the value added by advanced technologies and color copying. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. The late Bill McCowan, MCI''s former Chairman and CEO, did "his best to ban.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 55

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In our research for Beyond Performance we found there is a simple one that is often overlooked: Moving beyond the 'market contract' with employees and forging a stronger 'social contract'. The offer of a gift rather than payment indicates that social and not market norms are in play. She'd probably have accepted it graciously.

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Motivation Levitt Letter Business Objectives 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. For example, one large technology company embraced a strategy to win through new digital businesses.

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Long-term Incentives Short-term Management 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2018

Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his platform needs to change. The stock market reacted negatively to the announcement Friday, costing Facebook almost 5% of its market capitalization, or about $27 billion. Hiroshi Watanabe/Getty Images.

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Short-term Company Long-term Customer Loyalty 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. To consider another example, say a hedge fund is looking to acquire a tech company that claims to have a leading-edge technology.

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Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Possibly, but the concrete synergies are hard to see, especially considering the $9 billion premium that Microsoft is paying over LinkedIn’s market value as of last week. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner may have had this Microsoft experience in mind when he assured his employees that their new owner would grant LinkedIn “independence.”

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Software Price Marketing Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

No one has done more to spotlight the contrast than Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. trillion in holdings, Fink in February sent a letter to the CEOs of all S&P 500 companies that essentially cut the Gordian knot of short-termism. For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2017

The marketing, underwriting, and servicing of SME loans have largely taken a backseat. banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Other sectors of retail lending have not fared much better. Sometimes David can triumph over Goliath.

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Banking Stage-Gate Credit Scoring Competitive Advantage 9

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Show me a CEO with a bad attitude and I’ll show you a poor leader. As a CEO, how can you expect to inspire, motivate, engender confidence, and to lead with a lousy attitude? Leaders are not perfect, and as CEO, trust me when I tell you that you’re going to have your fair share of bad days.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2012

It's enough of a phenomenon that CEO Gregg Steinhafel recently penned a letter to his suppliers with a competitive battle cry: "we aren't willing.to And because their products were seen as indistinguishable by the market, the Dells of the world could effectively outsource the customer education function to Gateway.

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Retail Real Estate Price Letter 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. How technology is changing the way we work. Virtual reality technology presents new opportunities too: employees might virtually commute between different offices, immerse themselves in their customers’ worlds, or play with multiple identities. Insight Center.

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Gilbert Mission Statement Letter Software 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Manipulation of energy markets. CEO Jamie Dimon consistently espouses the virtues of size and diversity. In his letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report, Dimon said that “we are now making our control agenda priority #1.” Poor controls over risk and valuations. LIBOR rate rigging.

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2017

Mr. Moon (as Susan had been told to call him by her half-Korean father, Don) was the Seoul office manager of Zantech, a technology security firm with headquarters in Amsterdam. A quick search showed that he was Zantech’s head of market research for Asia. “I’ve even talked to the CEO.” “Not yet.

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Case Study Follow-up Ethics CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster revealed that not only had BP not moved beyond petroleum, but that its former CEO John Browne, who launched the beyond petroleum campaign, never had support for his vision in the company. CEOs could editorialize about the pressing need for climate action, like the CEO of The North Face just did.

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PPM Policies Engineering Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

market and stay there, often for several years, because it's worth twice as much as the European market and three times that of going to Asia. The whole world is fast becoming one market — and money is a universal language uniting all, whether you're selling in China, marketing to the French or closing a deal in New York City.

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Globalization Marketing Entrepreneur Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Look out across today’s ultra-competitive smartphone market and you’ll see something resembling the religious wars of the Middle Ages. Android’s release, for Apple’s late founder and CEO Steve Jobs, was the ultimate heresy. “I Innovation Tech industry Technology' This is no quaint summer-weekend reenactment.

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Outsourcing Software Industry Construction 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Debbie Laskey Mike, while I agree that a great presentation could showcase the evolution of leadership over time based on circumstances and types of companies, what about creating a "how to" playbook for how new leaders (CEOs) can create a leadership style? What were yours? His officers stared at him, wondering.

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Influence Blog Leadership Video 359

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

From the Pope to global CEOs to almost all the world’s political leaders, the most powerful people got on board. Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. In the U.S., Blackrock, with $4.7

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Supply Chain Apparel Energy Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Sitting at his kitchen table after another long day of meetings and interviews, the CEO read the e-mail from his board chair again, this time out loud to his wife, Fleura: “It’s the strong feeling of the board that someone needs to be held publicly responsible for what happened. At Target, the CIO and then the CEO resigned.

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Case Study Crisis IPO CIO 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

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Marketing 105

Marketing Content Audience Brand 105

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Since taking over as CEO, sales had increased fifteen-fold. His letter announced a compensation restructuring, which accompanied a dismantling of hierarchy and the introduction of self-managed, self-organizing teams throughout the company. .” Profits were up 150%. Headcount was growing. Regional expansion was underway.

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Management Long-term System Delegation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Hackers replaced the company's Twitter avatar with a Cadillac logo and explained to Jeep's 100,000-plus followers that the company had been sold because its employees and CEO were found using drugs. A better approach is to use what's known as single sign-on technology ( which we use at HootSuite ). But there are ways to reduce risks.

Media 15

Media Company Competitive Advantage Follow-up 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Top managers at a global marketing firm were curious how some of their more social-media-savvy employees referenced the firm and its clients in their tweets, blogs and Facebook posts. But those are roughly the roles they're being asked to assume as the enterprise dependence on their technologies expands. The CIO acquiesced.

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CIO Compliance Ethics Policies 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Apple is a case in point, and it represents the rule, not the exception.

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Innovation EPS Incentives Supply Chain 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Mitch Barns, the new Nielsen CEO, recently recounted a story of how a young leader who was asked two pointed questions at a Q&A session. “Do The first view is one that many hold–and one that retirement services marketers love to espouse. Do you think the work we do has any redeeming social value? billion.

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Diversity Retail Letter Learning-by-Doing 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, October 2016. This shift from the current Programmatic Era to the new AI Era will be transformative and disrupt companies and entire markets. Ultimately, it is strategy rather than technology that will drive value creation. “The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile-first.

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Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2013

Hackers replaced the company's Twitter avatar with a Cadillac logo and explained to Jeep's 100,000-plus followers that the company had been sold because its employees and CEO were found using drugs. A better approach is to use what's known as single sign-on technology ( which we use at HootSuite ). But there are ways to reduce risks.

Media 8

Media Company Competitive Advantage Follow-up 8