Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

What types of ‘wild goose chases’ have you pursued in your networking career? Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Are there networking situations which are beneficial for all parties?

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create a career development plan for employees. You can increase engagement and reduce turnover by supporting your employees’ career development goals. Make it easy to attract top talent by developing your employer brand. Without a doubt, a career in human resources can be a wild ride. Create a mentorship program.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re using the same old marketing strategies today because they brought in business in years past, you’re in danger of being pummeled by your competition. you have to get their attention, and that means your typical tried-and-true marketing tactics aren’t going to cut it anymore. …And the Clients Went Wild! :

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is simply a more intelligent approach to consistently manage brand exposure than it is to let your brand run wild and then attempt to triage overexposure. Once a brand’s appeal begins to erode, it will require significant time and expense to recover.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Mine your backyard.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2017

” The notion of moonshots is a hugely appealing idea, whether you are an enterprise working on a market innovation, a nonprofit organization tackling societal problems, or a government trying to govern better. At the time, those charged with achieving the goal had questions as to whether it could be done. Assemble it in space?

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 13, 2013

Over the past 25 years, Joey has worked with leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s and Newell Rubbermaid, and has emerged as one of the nation’s foremost visionaries and leading authorities on thinking and marketing. He is the best-selling author of several books, including [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 8, 2013

Over the past 25 years, Joey has worked with leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s and Newell Rubbermaid, and has emerged as one of the nation’s foremost visionaries and leading authorities on thinking and marketing. He is the best-selling author of several books, [.].

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Posted by: Sue Lohr | February 01, 2011 at 09:44 PM The wild goat chase and the one that got away. Posted by: douglas | February 03, 2011 at 02:36 AM Numb-Bubba thought to himself, "This 'driving his goats to market' idea might need a little PDCA," and decided he'd better call his upline before he made his next trip.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2016

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. Some products are truly innovative but stay walled up too long in R&D and then are released to market when they are no longer unique. The odds are stacked against new products or services. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Morgan projected up to $1T in investment would be deployed this decade — which would make impact investing twice the size of official development aid to the world’s less develop countries (as defined by the United Nations) , presuming historic levels of aid stayed constant since 2010. In 2010, J.P

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But theory, such as Statistical Learning Theory in Machine Learning , teaches us that predictability typically first improves and then deteriorates as model complexity increases, so adding complexity should not be a goal in itself. Developing and applying predictive analytics requires a delicate balance between art and science.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

That’s why CMOs need to develop four types of leadership, which are based loosely on Gartner’s Intelligent Brand Framework. The idea is to identify your power center — which one best represents your natural capabilities — and develop skills to flex across these leadership styles. By listening. It resonated.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. Keep moving!

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

Maybe you can identify with a marketing professional, an MBA we'll call Sophie, who worked as a product manager in a consumer products company. Here's how Sophie described it: I don't understand why R&D kills so many of my projects when I am supposedly measured on new product development!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

But theory, such as Statistical Learning Theory in Machine Learning , teaches us that predictability typically first improves and then deteriorates as model complexity increases, so adding complexity should not be a goal in itself. Developing and applying predictive analytics requires a delicate balance between art and science.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? Let’s start with the question of what year you should be targeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2012

The review summarizes what sets Apple apart from other companies: a relentless product focus, a culture of delivery, and an extraordinary marketing engine that communicates the magic of each new Apple offer. Strategy is less about the new, new thing than it is about actually delivering on the goals you set. I asked why he took the job.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Companies such as Opower and My Energy have developed these data systems, and they can now point to studies that show the combination of data and social pressure reduces home energy use. Putnam Investments has developed a “How Do I Compare?” Innovation Marketing' feature for its 401K clients. Finally, make the data actionable.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2015

The painful truth is: attention itself isn’t worth as much as today’s marketers, boardrooms, and beancounters think. Institutions and leaders, obedient students of modern marketing, obsessively ask, “How do we get people to be loyal to us?” You must help them develop into the people they were meant to be.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. professional organizations. organization that could also be a customer.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

Passion is not yelling or being wild; it is simply caring deeply. Being able to "see" is a skill that must be present or developed in an EntreLeader. The corporate mission statement is further clarification and definition for your dreams and vision and assures you that your goals are aimed at the right target. Carl Sandburg.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

“Make it known you want more challenges that fit your goals and talents,” says Gulati. Meeting new people committed to their careers and explaining your own goals and passions to them can help renew your sense of mission and expose you to aspects of your job that you may not have previously appreciated.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

A better approach is to target and design for consumers based on what my colleagues and I call their “jobs-to-be-done” – the fundamental problems they are trying to solve or goals they are trying to achieve. Everyone from Amazon and Google to Instacart (partnered with Whole Foods) and FreshDirect are already jumping into it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2016

But to compete long term, insurgent companies also need to develop scale and scope, which very often dulls their insurgent’s zeal. Of course, fighting the future is never a stated goal. It is open to different partners and willing to try “wild things” to support the customer.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Your customer metrics must correlate with financial and strategic goals. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. One direct marketer learned this the hard way. Truly reliable feedback and metrics. Organized learning.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

degrees Celsius , or even 2 degrees (the stated long-term goals). Besides possibly saving humanity, the deal has another big upside — it signals to financial markets and businesses that the low carbon economy is worth investing in. Multi-trillion-dollar markets are in play and there will be many more winners than losers.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

Every developing region I’ve worked in has a specific word for influence or connections. In less developed areas, the default assumption is that any piece of paper that is sent needs to be tracked to its final destination, and its recipient must be encouraged (gently or otherwise) to provide the desired outcome.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. They cannot be all things to all people. Social Networkers.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The virus, once released into the wild oceans of social media, preys on its victims. In fact, quite the opposite is the case: unlike viruses, people actively choose to engage with marketing messages and to share them (or not) with friends. Asking people to “share” as if sharing itself were the goal. Marketing Social media'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Google Fiber, as the effort was named, entered the access market intending to prove the business case for ultra-high-speed internet. In the Big Bang Disruption model, where innovations take off suddenly when markets are ready for them, Google Fiber could be seen as a failed early market experiment in gigabit internet access.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Increased demand for transparency and its close partners, (a) the quest to define and develop useful sustainability metrics and (b) the growing sustainability data explosion. Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. The goal: to reduce negative environmental and social impacts of the $1.4

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2011

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. The negotiators achieved their goal and closed a clever and profitable deal. The long-standing exclusive arrangement between Xerox and Fuji Photo Film in Japan is one example; pharmaceutical licensing across markets is another.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

Three years ago, I developed " Random Acts of Shaqness " — Twitter stunts designed to help Shaquille O'Neal bridge the virtual and physical worlds by, for example by posing like a statue in Harvard Square so fans could take pictures with him. It's a truly open market of ideas. Consensus is the only authority. Brevity reigns.

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