In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2012

My educated guess says that P&G and Unilever top management knew nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. As much as ‘branded’ companies pride themselves on being differentiated, ‘value-added’ marketers, they continually exchange ‘price buyers’ with their competition.

Price 162

Price Discount Brand Incentives 162

Strategy Driven

APRIL 9, 2020

But given the shockwaves reverberating from the market disruption that’s taking place, many normal business models are no longer operational, and new models must emerge. Yet, besides possible changes in delivery methods or product discounts, the companies’ information lacks flavor and innovation. Learn more at be-edge.com.

Business Model 123

Business Model Proposal Diversity Media 123

In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2012

My educated guess says that P&G and Unilever top management knew nothing of the conspiracy until the regulators came knocking. As much as ‘branded’ companies pride themselves on being differentiated, ‘value-added’ marketers, they continually exchange ‘price buyers’ with their competition.

Price 148

Price Discount Brand Incentives 148

Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2020

You can offer incentives such as a small discount for fast payment. If you do not offer the cheapest prices on the market, emphasize the quality of the product you offer and the need to invest in quality during hard times. Not even world leaders saw the COVID-19 crisis coming. Because of your next goal.

Tips 65

Tips Customer Loyalty Incentives Loyalty 65

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Managing Rewards and Mobility.

Short-term 59

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 59

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Most organizations don’t have a playbook to pull through the ongoing public health crisis. Management gurus are seeking to provide clarity, stability, direction to their employees and customers. These key areas include: Manage operations with minimal loss and disruption to daily business flow. Managing Rewards and Mobility.

Short-term 52

Short-term Committee Incentives Long-term 52

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 10, 2011

Liquor of the week - slightly discount something obscure each week and sell at the counter. Just like you see in an independent bookstore – just a little note under the product with a name and a short blurb about why it’s great. It would give people a reason to try new things. Unported License.

Career 281

Career Licensing Ethics Discount 281

Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2014

A typical post note transaction went as follows: a borrower approached an insurance company and requested a six-month IOU of $1000, minus a discount of say 3%. The borrower would then sell the discounted $970 post note on the money market, also paying a discount to the post note purchaser of say $30, receiving $940 in cash.

Insurance 52

Insurance Banking Crisis Discount 52

Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Twitter Lists For Event Preparation & Catalyst Discount Code. Holocaust and the 2008 Financial Crisis – Leadership Lessons in Resistance. Why Technology Managers Make Great Leaders. How to Handle a Seagull Manager. Do You Have a “Seagull Manager”? Management. Project Management.

Servant Leader 150

Servant Leader Leadership Microfinance Discount 150

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Leadership does not begin the when you step upon the first rung of the management ladder. Seldom, and at best, never to the degree of those in “management.” In the years to follow, Walter enrolled in supply management courses at some of the best universities. One direct report does not make you a leader; nor does ten.

Report 100

Report Career Discount Mentor 100

Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 1, 2010

They can be personal (better time management) or linked to your position (increase my sales by 12%). That was when the big discounts were available because the sales team was under goal. So here goes: STEP ONE – Plan The Big Picture. To the right, list when you’d like to get each one done (I hate the term deadline).

Goal 230

Goal Licensing Ethics Discount 230

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

Banking 15

Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

And because the traditional supermarket industry is highly concentrated (for example, in the UK, the top seven food retailers account for 87% of the grocery market), retailers have considerable market power to make change. Upgrade inventory systems with the latest technology.

Retail 8

Retail Supply Chain Crisis Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

A looming crisis. First, it’s important to understand the magnitude of the coming congestion crisis and its underlying drivers. Product overstocks result in discounted prices, which are usually about half to two-thirds of the gross margin. These include the following: Not enough port container capacity.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Crisis Transportation Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

The Practical Leader

APRIL 6, 2022

And don’t delegate purpose to marketing. McGill University management professor and author, Henry Mintzberg said, “an organization without human commitment is like a person without a soul: Skeleton, flesh, and blood may be able to consume and to excrete, but there is no life force.” Living on Purpose.

Mintzberg 111

Mintzberg Pharmaceuticals Energy McKinsey 111

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

Investors reward companies (such as Apple and Kimberly-Clark ) whose current performance or guidance for the future exceeds market expectations, and they punish companies (as they did Starbucks and Procter & Gamble ) whose performance or guidance fails to meet expectations.

CFO 11

CFO Metrics Price Depreciation 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2015

In my work in competitive intelligence I have met many managers and executives who made major decisions involving billions of dollars of commitments with only scant attention to the likely reaction of competitors, the effect of potential disruptors, new approaches offered by startups and the impact of long-term industry trends.

Competitive Intelligence 8

Competitive Intelligence Company Drucker Review 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Is the developed world on the verge of a skills crisis? Cathy Benko, a vice chairman at Deloitte, has been studying the various ways companies are working to prevent a skills crisis while transforming for the digital world. How talent management is changing. An edited version of our conversation follows. Insight Center.

Skills 8

Skills Company Core Competence Career 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

While this has always been a truism about great leadership, in our world of repetitive volatility, a leader's ability to manage his or her own internal experience around stress and use it to focus his or her team is crucial. Large discounters (most significantly Walmart) had entered the grocery business and intended to dominate it.

Leadership 14

Leadership Stress Long-term Morale 14

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Along the way, many defective tires hit the market, subsequently causing SUV rollovers, damage and, in some cases, deaths. Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. Ford blamed Firestone for tires that would not hold up.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

LDRLB

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Joan Kofodimos at Anyone Can Lead brings some insight into coaching with Biggest Coaching Mistakes Managers Make. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog offers Seven Steps to Success in Your New Management Job. Jane Perdue at LeadBIG tackles crisis management with Rewarding Hat Tricks or Planning. Jennifer V.

Leadership Development 167

Leadership Development Development Leadership McCarthy 167

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

Or hate it, depending on where you stand on the ebook-discount fight being waged on your laptop and tablet. Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. Publishers must therefore rebuild their cost structure by doing such things as “moving to a less fancy office and lowering [managers’] salaries.”

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Supply Chain Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

beyond creating an easy money situation through reduction of discount rates, there is very little, if anything, that the reserve organization can do to bring about recovery.". The European Union forgot to build a fiscal instrument and that's why they have a Euro crisis. The problem in the Eurozone is even more extreme.

Short-term 11

Short-term Banking Long-term Policies 11

Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 28, 2010

“ 7 Lessons For Leading In Crisis “ – Bill George I recently had the good fortune of seeing Bill George speak at the World Economic Forum in NYC; he’s an ex-big company CEO who spoke about leading in crisis, and turning crisis into opportunities. Here is the list: 1). Seeling, T.

Books 176

Books Review Leadership Crisis 176

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 15, 2011

Every year since 1995, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released a report on the state of competition in the wireless market. Or, if not, what negative effect its dubious conclusions might have on regulatory policy in wireless markets. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns.

Wireless 13

Wireless Report Price Analysis 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis. Why buy clothes at its Kmart stores rather than at trendier Target?

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

My grandfather ran the exports, while my great-uncle managed the palm plantation. And Southeast Asia''s financial crisis was crippling Indonesia''s growth; perhaps my uncles sensed vulnerability. He liked hearing that and became excited thinking about how to take advantage of the crisis. I laughed at that one.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

Family businesses rarely receive much public attention unless they are in crisis. Right now we have an honest to goodness Greek tragedy in Market Basket, a large family-owned grocery store chain being run into the ground by the feuding Demoulas (yes, Greek-American) family. And this is also true at Market Basket.

Marketing 8

Marketing Real Estate Loyalty Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team.

Company 8

Company How To Business Model Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Too many companies still follow a “Plan-then-Do” approach to strategy: The organization works tirelessly to create its best forecasts about the future market and competitive landscape. Any deviation from management’s forecast meant failure, regardless of how effectively the strategy was executed. Take Google.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Devices of all kinds have gone from advertising, branding, and marketing media to promotional platforms. Once significant distinctions between coupons, coops, discounts, and promotional currencies are blurring into nothingness. Google's failed effort to acquire Groupon for a reported $6 billion (!)

Innovation 15

Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 15

In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Mistrust of senior management. There’s a rift within top management and everyone knows it. Product discounting is chronic. Marketing blames Sales. Picture this: The CEO of the decaying company is addressing his management team. Too many meetings. No one arrives on time. Finger pointing. Scapegoat firings.

Absenteeism 100

Absenteeism Short-term Long-term Strategic Planning 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. It focused its efforts on earning a majority share of Europe’s digital classified advertising market (a product that connects buyers and sellers). Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

Media 9

Media Advertising Fixed Costs Content 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

A former campaign manager, Strasma started his company in 2003 to find a better way to predict who the true persuadables are in a campaign, and to find smart ways to target messaging towards them. What were some of Obama's key features that you would use to market him, to tell a story based on the data you had? Is it creating jobs?

Survey 8

Survey Politics Information Discount 8