In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In the CEO Afterlife. Beneath the pier and within reach of your coins from above are 5 picnic blankets spread six-feet apart, each with novel merchandising themes to entice charitable currency. Formerlife: CEO of Jacobs Suchard (Nabob, Kraft), Strategy/Branding Consultant. © 2011 In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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In the CEO Afterlife

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

It might even increase sales of vintage Redskins merchandise. Currently, there’s a storm brewing ten miles down the road from the Wizards, at the home of their neighbors, the Washington Redskins. Frankly, dumping Redskins for another name will not affect stadium attendance or television audiences. I suspect this debate isn’t going away.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 5, 2016

Bean , the idea of selling really good merchandise at a reasonable profit and treating customers like human beings is worth the effort. But, that’s not to say you can’t be inspired by a company vision that thrills customers the way Zappos does. Matters of Values. For the nearly 5,000 employees who work at L.L.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 16, 2021

And availability of merchandise is what allows a company to make a sale – or not. One of the best leaders I ever saw demonstrate this attribute was Bernard Tyson, the former CEO of Kaiser Permanente. In fact, it’s only when these things go wrong that we hear about them. And, yet, great customer service keeps customers coming back.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Beneath the pier and within reach of your coins from above are 5 picnic blankets spread six-feet apart, each with novel merchandising themes to entice charitable currency. On the sand below the Santa Barbara Pier is the domain of a homeless entrepreneur. Our homeless merchant’s theme is targeted at the male audience.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2011

I wanted my money back – I had the receipt, I had the merchandise in perfect condition, and virtually everything in the store was on sale at that time. To make matters worse, my wife and I went through the store looking for a suitable replacement, but it was virtually empty due to the holidays. Bad Customer! You must play by our rules!

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 15, 2011

Mark recently replaced the well-known Michael Hyatt as CEO of Nelson. Also, get out of the office and get into stores and online to understand the focus of merchandising and promotions. From the outside, it appears Mark will approach the position different from Michael. I was interested in learning from Mark’s leadership.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 24, 2019

But in one of the most transformative business acts in business history, owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta and CEO Dana White formulated an approach to gain legitimacy in the greater sports world. Seen only on pay-per-view and videocassette, UFC struggled in its early days to find venues willing to put on their show.

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Roundtable Talk

JULY 30, 2010

Leadership and Sustainability: voice your opinion → Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Under this direction, Zappos.com has grown from nothing to over $1 billion in grow merchandise. 2 Responses to Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Skip to content Home Welcome!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately. In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Here’s what they should do instead.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 18, 2024

In a memo circulated on Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat unveiled Google’s plans to restructure its finance organization, signaling a strategic shift towards prioritizing investments in artificial intelligence (AI).

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Groupthink is stealth. Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) combat groupthink, which is a mode of thinking that occurs when individuals of a highly cohesive, insular group or an in-group strive for consensus and might avoid or override alternate viewpoints, ideas, actions, or dissent.

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CEO Insider

JANUARY 3, 2023

The hospitality industry is highly competitive, so it’s important that it moves with the times. Additionally, customer expectations are always shifting based on new technologies that are introduced. Obsolete systems will have a negative impact on your bottom line.

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CEO Insider

JULY 26, 2022

Organizations are witnessing a record wave of cyber-attacks and whether it’s data breaches, ransomware attacks, fraud or espionage, a common theme seems to be emerging — threat actors are increasingly targeting identities instead of targeting systems.

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CEO Insider

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of my coaching clients is an entrepreneur whose business looks great on paper. In year 2–3, she had made a whopping 83% profit. Everything seemed to be going perfectly. Yet, when we took what I call a “strategic pause” to review her goals, I noted that personally, she wasn’t doing great.

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CEO Insider

JULY 18, 2022

How empowering your organization is crucial: George Harrison wrote the song “I Me Mine” just as the Beatles were breaking up. In the book of the same name, George writes, “Suddenly I looked around and everything I could see was relative to my ego, like ‘that’s my piece of paper’ and ‘that’s my flannel’ or ‘give […].

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CEO Insider

MARCH 24, 2023

A few days ago, I decided to get a different perspective on Peernovation – a value proposition I introduced to the marketplace upon publishing my third book, Peernovation: What Peer Advisory Groups Can Teach Us About Building High-Performing Teams.

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CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 19, 2022

It’s understandable if business leaders feel ready for some respite from the turmoil and challenges of leading organisations during the past few years; first Brexit caused untold headaches, then COVID-19 struck, now we are facing the disruption of global supply chains and the threat of a new war across Europe.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 15, 2022

This is not a typical CEOWORLD magazine article. Still, there are events whose significance cannot be ignored. My text – written in Warsaw, Poland, not far from the Ukrainian border – follows up on Dr. Joe Zamit-Lucia’s article “Tomorrow The World Will Not Return To Normal” (CEOWORLD Magazine, March 7, 2022).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

A lot of CEOs are being shown the door lately. In the apparel industry alone, we’ve just seen the end of American Apparel’s Dov Charney and the ouster of Lululemon Athletica founder Chip Wilson – plus the installation of interim CEOs at Target and JC Penney following their previous leaders’ firings. Here’s what they should do instead.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 7, 2022

If you’re a business leader, you’ve probably spent a lot of time talking about things like vision and planning, leading your people instead of managing them, and how to set the right culture from the top down. You might have worked with coaches to help you improve in these areas, or participated in trainings and […].

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CEO Insider

MARCH 16, 2023

Which companies have the strongest reputations within and across industries?

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CEO Insider

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The success of any company can be significantly contributed to the efforts of its employee brand ambassadors. They promote the company’s brand, products, and services on social media platforms such as LinkedIn, acting as the company’s official spokesperson in the process.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 11, 2022

Do you know how many of your leaders are getting up at 4am in order to ‘get their work done’ before the day’s meeting frenzy begins? It’s likely to be more than you think. Or perhaps not – perhaps you’re also trying this tactic to get on top of your meeting overload? This is an […].

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, Procter & Gamble’s board voiced confidence in embattled CEO Robert McDonald. Bloomberg’s Jeff Green recently took a close look at P&G’s directors, half of whom are acting CEOs of other companies. Wolff suggests we take a cue from Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs: "Pictures are easy. Words are hard.".

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2013

Penney and its CEO Ron Johnson have parted ways. In a "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" moment, Penney announced that its previous CEO, Myron E. Just as important, Johnson was trying to significantly change the retailer''s merchandise offerings and hence, its customer base. Ullman III, is returning to the helm.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

At Costco, another good jobs retailer, store managers are empowered to display merchandise and provide input into the merchandising system. ” When asked about automation in retail, a good jobs company CEO who recently visited our class at MIT said he saw automation as a force multiplier.

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CEO Insider

MAY 19, 2022

It is not by accident or any act of favoritism that Ulugbekhon Maksumov was recently honoured in his home country of Uzbekistan with a commemorative award on the occasion of the country’s 30thindependence anniversary.

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CEO Insider

MARCH 24, 2022

Hybrid work is all the rage lately – initially out of necessity, but now out of flexibility and preference. When businesses moved to remote work in 2020, it was a stressful period of time when they needed to figure out how best to continue on with work while not in person. Since then, all businesses […].

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Competition from big box retailers and Amazon as well as CEO problems certainly contributed to the brand’s demise, but Radio Shack’s biggest misstep was its failure to stay true to its original purpose — equipping electronics DIY-ers and tinkerers. But sometimes the right decision is the more painful one.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded. ” This Mess.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Macy’s, for example, now allows customers to order merchandise online for store pickup. Andy Dunn, the CEO of Bonobos, told Rigby, “We were wrong at the beginning. In fact, notes Rigby, some of the biggest retailing success stories showcase strategies that fuse digital and physical experiences. All we’re going to do is be online.’

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Last week, Procter & Gamble’s board voiced confidence in embattled CEO Robert McDonald. Bloomberg’s Jeff Green recently took a close look at P&G’s directors, half of whom are acting CEOs of other companies. Wolff suggests we take a cue from Apple’s late CEO Steve Jobs: "Pictures are easy. Words are hard.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

In manufacturing, the villain might be expensive or defective products, the victims are the consumers paying for them, and the hero is safe merchandise that performs as promised. A local moneylender extended credit for the raw materials but retained the exclusive right to the merchandise at prices he would establish.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

A sound economy, a booming stock market, and huge business tax cuts, the story goes, have convinced CEOs of companies flush with cash to distribute some of it to front-line employees. So here’s my question for CEOs: Why simply smooth out the rough edges of our “winner-take-all” economy?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

One way insightful retailers are breaking free from their conservative cultures is to have the CEO lead a weekly “drop in” meeting for project teams or 15-minute daily catch-ups. When CEOs lead these meetings, teams can raise any issues, big or small, and get them resolved in minutes.

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