The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

As much as I enjoy reading Fortune magazine, they keep adding to this misguided leadership view by continually putting larger-than-life CEOs, politicians, and other leaders on their covers and featuring stories on their forceful personalities. Charismatic leadership seems to especially confuse many people.

Charisma 78

Charisma Emotional Intelligence Webinar Self-aware 78

Women on Business

MAY 11, 2012

DON’T trust industry averages for budget and performance comparisons. Rohr is a columnist for PHC News, Business Journals, and several trade magazines– providing “in the trenches” insight that business owners can relate to. •DO run a balance sheet, income statement and cash flow report every WEEK!

Real Estate 194

Real Estate Succession Franchising Price 194

Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Five years after receiving their awards, these companies outperformed the comparison companies by 77% in sales, 44% in assets, and 18% in operating income. A study by Quality Progress Magazine examined over 600 company's results over 10 years. compared their financial performance to that of similar companies that had not won awards.

TQM 98

TQM EFQM Comparison Quality 98

Six Disciplines

JANUARY 4, 2012

Five years after receiving their awards, these companies outperformed the comparison companies by 77% in sales, 44% in assets, and 18% in operating income. A study by Quality Progress Magazine examined over 600 company's results over 10 years. compared their financial performance to that of similar companies that had not won awards.

ROI 85

ROI TQM EFQM Comparison 85

Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 14, 2014

If not, try this visual on for comparison. What Got You Here Won’t Get You There was listed as a top ten business bestseller for 2013 by INC Magazine / 800 CEO Read (for the seventh consecutive year). 2) conclude that it isn’t, and 3) say, “Thank you.”

Sports 157

Sports Document Leadership Comparison 157

Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 9, 2013

But when Time magazine put him on its cover in 1933, it was for playing polo.”Jock” There’s no comparison of this phone booth with other booths in the area.” What Got You Here Won’t Get You There has just been listed as the #2 bestselling business book for 2012 by INC magazine / 800 CEO Read.

CEO 146

CEO Open-book Magazine Middle Management 146

Strategy Driven

MARCH 3, 2020

It’s not to say that dental employees receive inadequate pay, but it pales in comparison to the owner’s income potential. From magazines to television, consider getting the word out as your opening day approaches. It’s also no secret that joining an existing practice comes with inferior income packages.

Finance 66

Finance Credit Scoring Licensing Short-term 66

Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Cultural differences – how to hug, how to politely eat a meal, and what to give as gifts – seem inconsequential in comparison. Also published in Echoes of LBI (Long Beach Island) Magazine.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Learning-by-Doing Library Mentor 170

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Three weeks after the explosion, Hayward called the spill “relatively tiny&# in comparison with the size of the “ocean.&# He is a contributor to Fortune magazine and a regular blogger at CEO Afterlife. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed.

CEO 137

CEO Crisis Leadership Risk Management 137

Tim Milburn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

First off, props to Smashing Magazine and their periodic Smashing Newsletter for pointing this out. There is a downloadable PDF that offers visual examples of each typographic sin, providing the right way to do it alongside for comparison. Repent of this sin by using only one space.

Commitment 68

Commitment Newsletter Comparison Magazine 68

In the CEO Afterlife

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Three weeks after the explosion, Hayward called the spill “relatively tiny” in comparison with the size of the ocean – 6 weeks later he said he’d like his life back, and 6 weeks after that, BP’s shell-shocked Board finally put him out of his misery. Afterlife: Fortune Magazine Contributor, Wannabe Novelist.

Crisis Management 268

Crisis Management Crisis CEO Management 268

LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Three weeks after the explosion, Hayward called the spill “relatively tiny” in comparison with the size of the “ocean.” He is a contributor to Fortune magazine and a regular blogger at CEO Afterlife. Everyone watched as CEO Tony Hayward made blunder after blunder while their crude killed.

CEO 92

CEO Crisis Leadership Risk Management 92

Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

I was surprised to see that the inside blurb referred to a story published in a magazine I hadn’t heard of before. The magazine had published that one issue and then was discontinued. Arrange the information in a matrix to facilitate a comparison. When the book arrived, I was delighted that the dust jacket was still intact.

Library 90

Library Due Diligence Travel Document 90

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 8, 2012

There are lots of theories as to why CEO pay has increased six fold over the last 20 years but here’s mine: since magazines started publishing the salaries of CEO’s, executive comp packages have skyrocketed. The likely cause is a little thing called “comparison other”. It happens to everyone.

Power 41

Power Banking Comparison Middle Management 41

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2011

sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom. This article was republished with the permission of sas com Magazine.

Real Estate 66

Real Estate Magazine Rogers Long-term 66

Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

One site, Charisma Magazine , suggested I add more ways husbands and wives injure each other, based on the two post’s feedback. Comparison – I learned that some were offended that they were grouped into a general post, rather than making one post for husbands and wives combined. Numerous sites re-posted them. I get that.

Charisma 83

Charisma Learning-by-Doing Active Listening Comparison 83

Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Friends who are interior designers, architects, and builders tell me that many customers get immersed in Houzz, Pinterest, HGTV, and many magazines and home fashion catalogs. You can make your own comparison when it comes to sex.). We see evidence of their empowerment across settings and industries.

Politics 76

Politics Power Self-aware Short-term 76

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom. This article was republished with the permission of sas com Magazine.

Magazine 52

Magazine Chief Operating Officer Newsletter Objective 52

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2010

sascom Magazine sas com Magazine is the quarterly publication of the SAS Institute, Inc. Subscribe now to get your subscription to this award-winning quarterly magazine. sas com Magazine can also be accessed online at www.sas.com/sascom. This article was republished with the permission of sas com Magazine.

Resources 50

Resources Process Constraint Objective 50

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 20, 2010

Successories Motivational Products Talent Managment Magazine Testing and Assessments - An Employers Guide to Good Practices Testing and Assessments - DOL The Rainmaker Group - Possibility Maximization An amazing group of people commited to making a difference in the world they live - one soul, one organization, one Customer Experience at a time.

Peer Review 124

Peer Review Leadership Human Resources White Paper 124

Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

I wrote a piece for Studio30 Plus magazine about this very topic. What a nightmare for someone as weird as I can be by comparison to the garden variety high school student. Here’s a link if you would like to read it: [link] Studio30 Plus is a social media site for writers. Dailey September 18, 2010 at 12:48 pm Nice Dana.

Blog 339

Blog Learning-by-Doing Conference Media 339

The Idolbuster

JANUARY 3, 2013

What I noticed yesterday was another comparison -Jesse was driven by the need to “show everybody that he could be the best at something.” He went “five years without taking a day off” he told Baltimore Magazine. I saw being the best as an escape, a way to write my own ticket.

Price 42

Price Comparison Long-term Travel 42

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Chris Watson is a 20-year marketing veteran, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the magazine publishing industry. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Jason played an instrumental role in turning Everspark Interactive into a $1.2 million agency in only three months.

Newsletter 50

Newsletter Engineering Short-term Diversity 50

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

The process and the eight dimensions are explained in the May 2014 HBR magazine article: Navigating the Cultural Minefield. Over the years I’ve built up quite a lot of data on cultural differences and I’ve drawn on that work to provide pair comparisons for a number of counties, which you may find useful in working that out.

Team 15

Team Comparison Globalization Letter 15

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2011

Chris Watson is a 20-year marketing veteran, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the magazine publishing industry. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Jason played an instrumental role in turning Everspark Interactive into a $1.2 million agency in only three months.

Video 50

Video Marketing Mix Press Release Engineering 50

Rajesh Setty

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Tabbloid promises to create a personal magazine out of all your favorite feeds and then deliver it to you as a neat PDF – something that is print-worthy. One way is to help people create more materials that are “print worthy&#. Tabbloid from HP is one such project.

Company 28

Company Licensing Newsletter Business Model 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Take the recent column by David Carr in the New York Times on New York magazine , a perfect example of a needlessly dismayed reaction to an industry in transition. That The Cut , nymag.com’s successful fashion vertical, will be integrated into the revamped magazine. That print revenues have declined, with the magazine 9.2%

Magazine 9

Magazine Media Advertising Content 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2014

Books became the dominant form of persuasive technology and sister products like newspapers and magazines used the same fundamental persuasion technology: formulate your argument in prose, typeset it, print numerous copies inexpensively, and distribute them broadly. Second, the printed book is pretty darn inflexible.

Video 15

Video Audience Technology Open-book 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is designed to make one aspect of shopping, price comparisons, very simple. Thus, the simplicity of Amazons price comparison goes away. Unless you take the store price, remember what the sales tax rate is and open a calculator app, you cant make a precise comparison. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

Retail 14

Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Time magazine may have called it “the most boring bank in the world,” but after the crisis, its conservative approach is looking more appealing than ever; it is a brand that played it smart and safe. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. If you don’t know very well your customers, don’t lend them any money.”

Brand 66

Brand Globalization Banking Long-term 66

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

Back in the Middle Ages when I was still with Fortune magazine, we had Warren Buffet in for an editorial lunch. The observation “ comparisons are odious ” dates back at least to the 15th century (long enough for Shakespeare to work a comic riff noting they’re also “odorous”).

Comparison 8

Comparison Hammer Library Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

To determine the impact of semantically resonant colors on graph analysis, we ran experiments to measure how quickly people can complete data-comparison tasks on bar charts using either default colors or semantically resonant colors. For example, “magazine” and “newspaper” might both map to gray. What’s going on here?

Comparison 8

Comparison Analysis Examples Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

The news magazine that once told us what the future holds now seems incapable of telling us what the present does. Locating the magazine in 1965, on the other hand, gives us powers of sight. A useful comparison in any case. We are obliged to observe a world of such complexity in which reports seem thin, conclusions doubtful.

Innovation 11

Innovation Disintermediation Magazine Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Barely 3% of Adobe digital magazine downloads went to Androids, fully 97% were iOS. To make a vulgar comparison, just because someone buys a lot of books doesn't mean those books are read. Where Android jumped from 1.43% of Black Friday shopping traffic in 2010 to 4.92% this year, Apple's iOS pole-vaulted from 3.85% to 18.46%.

ROE 11

ROE Metrics Download Comparison 11

Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Related Posts: The Personal Branding Dilemma The First Few Steps – Article published in BizTech Magazine What a "Personal Brand" is NOT – at TomPeters.com FREE eBook: Personal Branding for Technology Professionals – Japanese version Invitation to participate in BRANDTASTIC! Have a great week ahead!

eBook 28

eBook Licensing Brand Newsletter 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Vanity Fair 's Kurt Eichenwald takes a close look at what the magazine provocatively calls "Microsoft's lost decade" in a sprawling story this month. Makes the 16% who said they'd gladly engage in insider trading if they knew they wouldn't get caught look paltry by comparison. 50 SHADES OF I-WANT-IT-TODAY.

P&L 8

P&L McKinsey Comparison Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

By comparison, the ideas of each person in the largest segment of meditators (21% of the group) were in nine categories, which included gardening (cutting trees, watering flowers) and security (extinguishing fires) and ranged from the somewhat plausible (washing windows) to the downright silly (feeding giraffes).

Creativity 15

Creativity Brainstorming Participative Open-book 15