Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

Brand 68

Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. One of LinkedIn’s 2017 ‘Top Voices’ among all Influencers. Non-profit CEOs.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

Dirty Little Secrets offers dozens of examples to clarify precisely how buying decisions can be facilitated through the right kind of questions, including an in-depth case study of a marketing manager who recognizes the need for a better website and wants to bring in an external design team. The result?

Servant Leader 50

Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

If it’s all about the operations then you lose sight of the customer. Rather than measuring marketing KPIs or operations KPIs, focus instead on the more customer-oriented journey KPIs, such as lifetime margin. Once the drivers of the costs of the journey are understood, marketing can work with operations to address them.

COO 8

COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. Starting at 8:00 am, each attendee would deliver a presentation on his or her area of expertise or influence. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations.

P&L 15

P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

billion to acquire the webOS operating system, Hewlett-Packard discontinued its webOS-based series of smartphones and line of Touchpad tablets — losing its bet on a webOS-everywhere future. This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market.

Innovation 12

Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

Strategy 8

Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Because the new data analytics horizons typically span a range of functions, including marketing, risk, and operations, the C-suite evolution may take a variety of paths.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Increase operating margins to 18% (by cutting expenses).

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Family businesses are defined by three overlapping domains of influence: the family, the owners, and the business. Their son-in-law (married to their eldest daughter) had recently been named chief operating officer. Their execution had to be accomplished within an operating facility that could not be shut down for the project.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

For him, the project was a shift from executing a pre-defined series of tasks to influencing an organization and helping them to overcome barriers. For example, a sector manager for an internet commerce organization decided to stretch her skills by forming and leading a community of marketing experts from different organizations.

Porter 9

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 9

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

So once the finance department, CFO, or treasure department has determined what the rate is, managers know that is the number to beat if they want to win support for their projects or proposals. The formula looks like this: Cost of equity = risk-free interest rate + beta (market rate – risk-free rate). x 4.3%) + (0.7

Cost of Capital 8

Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2015

Reading the banner headlines about family businesses gone sour — Market Basket , Rollins , L’Oreal , among others — people often conclude that conflicts in family businesses spiral out of control like mighty tornadoes that destroy everything in their paths. 2) Positions harden. 4) Alliances form. 6) Advocates are called in.

CFO 8

CFO Positioning COO Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Their operations involve partnerships, specializations, and supply chains. Rather than thinking of a clandestine hacker working out of a basement, you will be better served to picture a sophisticated, professional operation working out of an office tower. What could they most readily monetize on the black market?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% The role had little influence : Some companies appointed process owners at middle management levels. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

The company was known for being a generous donor to nonprofits, both in Minnesota and in the out-of-state cities where it had stores; it gave 5% of its pre-tax operating profits to charity each year. It’s absurd to think that a company our size doesn’t need influence in Saint Paul and Washington. Harold shook his head.

Case Study 8

Case Study Politics Committee Letter 8