Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best leadership book for 2014 is, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. It is very candid and transparent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

Now, he’s tackling the second piece of the puzzle with his open memo on Microsoft’s strategy, where Nadella lays out the numerous tactical changes he has in mind to reach that destination. In addition, Randy is an established author as well as a legacy leadership expert. It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 30, 2019

Flashback to this post from early 2015 : After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Front-Line Leader: Building a High-Performance Organization from the Ground Up , by Chris Van Gorder. It is very candid and transparent. Over time the philosophies become well-understood.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After reading nearly 40 books about leadership released this year, my pick for the very best is the book, The Font-Line Leader: Building a High-PerformanceOrganization from the Groumd Up , by Chris Van Gorder. He has presided over a dramatic turnaround, catapulting Scripps from near bankruptcy to a dominant market position.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing. His voice was high-pressure, probably the result of sales training classes.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

It is an ongoing process of evaluation, planning, tactical actions and benchmarking accomplishments. Futurism is a continuum of thinking and reasoning skills, judicious activities, shared leadership and an accent upon ethics and quality. “Upper classes are a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.”

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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

I have been speaking, teaching and consulting on marketing and branding for 30 years, and I began to notice a disturbing trend. So, in writing the book, I decided early to break each short chapter into a specific offending behavior, policy or tactic employed by business and offer specific examples that everyone could relate to.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. It’s not about definitions, it’s about people. Now that I’ve stated my case, it’s time for you to weigh-in…what say you? It is about getting the result the client wants.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

He is one of my favorite leadership bloggers, and hopefully we’ll still be on speaking terms after this post. It is the responsibility of executive leadership to set the tone for great teamwork by putting forth a clearly articulated vision, and then aligning every aspect of strategic and tactical decisioning with said vision.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Life-threatening experiences (loss of business or market share, economic recession) signal the urgency for the team to collaborate. Marketing’s importance was fully embraced in the 1960′s. Marketing departments deal most often and immediately with the side effects of poor quality. Access to global markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Over the past 18 months, Sergey’s experience has been echoed in offices in Ukraine, South Africa, Turkey, Brazil, and many other emerging markets that have faced substantial currency depreciation due to the drop in commodity prices and the flow of capital to the U.S. Normally, MNCs raise prices in the emerging market, (e.g.,

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 22, 2012

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy. Cause-related marketing materials. by Hank Moore.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While I think I’ve come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. Read this book, absorb this book, practice what it preaches, and you’ll be on your way to being a great communicator. Thanks, Nancy!”

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. He told me that I must think like a world-class visionary, grow into the role and not just remain a radio DJ. Business Know-How Comes From Experience – The Value of Life-Long Mentoring. by Hank Moore. Any company or organization is like a tree.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This Book Will Make You Money : How to Use Attention-Getting Online Marketing to Increase Your Revenue by Jim Kukral This book provides an educational and motivational guide to using social media to market your brand or business online. In three parts, it teaches readers how to get off the ground and thrive in the social mediasphere.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2017

Like its American compatriot Ford Motor Company , GM’s market share in India has always been in the single digits, but recently Ford has reported rising monthly sales of 36% in India. 1 — Consistent Leadership Over Time Matters in This Market. Unlike Bentley or Rolls-Royce, GM is a mass-market car company in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

I mean, tactically managed? The data points revealed 306 metrics considered by leadership to be key to effective sales management. We found three different classes of sales metrics, each with its own managerial value and purpose. What sales managers can control are the third class of metric: Sales Activities.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hacktober has a number of different elements, from phishing tests and marketing campaigns to contests, workshops, and expert talks. In the spirit of keeping things fun and engaging, we also offered a series of lighter events that reflected our hacker culture, like hands-on lock picking classes. Weak passwords? Physical security?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanics as votes they can buy through inauthentic sales tactics. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. And it certainly doesn't help matters when Hispanic leadership voices are lacking in the mainstream national media. To date, Obama and Romney have decided to approach U.S.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? Taking notes in business is just as important as it was in your advanced economics class in college.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

An organization showing ethical leadership can galvanize ethically sensitive stakeholders into supporting it in its endeavor to fight corruption, which can lead to reputational benefits for the organization. Others who had stayed away from the market (absentee) emerge. Resisting Corruption in Corrupt Environments.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Successful companies are notoriously prone to pursuing tactical fixes rather than confronting strategic problems. In the last three years, these two companies have rapidly gained share and now account for more than 8% of the market, while Tesco has lost more than 2% share, down to 28%. and spends it in international markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Hispanics as votes they can buy through inauthentic sales tactics. As founder of the Center for Hispanic Leadership, I can attest to the fact that the U.S. And it certainly doesn't help matters when Hispanic leadership voices are lacking in the mainstream national media. To date, Obama and Romney have decided to approach U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Start with leadership. Not only do leaders need to create ways for all employees to increase their self-awareness, but they should also employ tactics to ensure teams are assembled with each individual’s innate talents in mind. Ultimately, their consistent encouragement can propel the company to world-class performance.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2018

One reason stock prices increase so much when activism is announced is that market participants perceive an increased probability that the company will be sold at a premium, or at least be shaken up. Yet this narrative is breaking apart as the structure of our capital markets continues to change.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Whether it’s about leadership and talent, or customers and innovation, identifying and communicating an inclusive aspirational vision – to both men and women – is key. The culture was, if anything, even more masculine, competitive, and class-conscious than before. For example, “40% minimum of both genders, at all levels.’”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the fact that it seems nearly impossible to build a stable, secure, happy life in the segment formerly known as the "middle class" by doing worthwhile work that makes a real human difference is the exception that proves the rule, illuminating just how deeply, and perhaps fatally broken our economy is. Let me put that even more simply.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But the fact that it seems nearly impossible to build a stable, secure, happy life in the segment formerly known as the "middle class" by doing worthwhile work that makes a real human difference is the exception that proves the rule, illuminating just how deeply, and perhaps fatally broken our economy is. Let me put that even more simply.

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