Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2014

They developed a trusting relationship, laid their cards on the table, face up, and walked around Palo Alto trading crazy ideas. Next comes finding the best partners and developing trusting relationships. The creative teams he developed laid the foundations for today’s music, movie, and telecommunications industries.

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P&L Telecommunications Chemicals Film 252

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. Helping People Change : Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth by Richard Boyatzis, Melvin L. Blog Post ). There's a better way. Blog Post ).

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Books Leadership P&L Learning-by-Doing 236

HR Digest

JANUARY 11, 2024

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. . employees (47%) experiencing it.

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CEO Altman McCarthy Supply Chain 52

Women on Business

DECEMBER 28, 2010

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Develop your web of influence (key stakeholders, decision makers, influencers, connectors) to assist you in reaching your goal. o Develop your subject matter expertise through social media, community organizations and board positions.

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Press Release PR Mentor Discount 239

Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

By Michael Lee Stallard and Katharine P. To begin to appreciate the emotional demands people in healthcare routinely face, read this eloquent article by oncologist Dr. Martee L. Vision]; “Develop a cadre of friends with whom you can be real.” Photo by Online Marketing on Unsplash. We’ve come to expect it. A Heavy Load.

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P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm, says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. As a young girl, I watched his work ethic and success drive him in life and business,” said Sullivan, CEO of Marketing Solved.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 74

Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

There is a noticeable focus on “culture” lately, whether the topic is recruiting, engagement, development, retention, what have you. This would include a day spent with an installation tech and a day spent with a call center agent – preferably, in a market other than your own. It’s all good stuff to discuss.

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CFO P&L Call Center COO 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

The L-word makes hard-nosed managers squirm. They’ll often use another L-word — leadership — in complete ignorance of how their loveless “bottom line” orientation is rooted in pessimism and fear. Fear of criticism, fear of failure, fear of getting caught, or fear of speaking up. ” Ya gotta love it!

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Airlines P&L Collins Leadership 53

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Steve Farber

MAY 31, 2017

Marina Lau, a senior marketing manager at JotForm , says one of her key mentors provided all sorts of practical advice, but it was all built on a foundation of creating a strong sense of inner confidence. As a young girl, I watched his work ethic and success drive him in life and business,” said Sullivan, CEO of Marketing Solved.

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Mentor Quality P&L Hammer 40

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. At L’Oréal, CEO Jean-Paul Agon signaled the company’s digital transformation when he recruited Lubomira Rochet to be the chief digital officer and a member of the executive team. Help Employees Embrace Agility.

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P&L Agility Fashion Media 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

As part of this effort, they discovered that the majority of employees who were advising Janssen on emerging markets had never set foot in those countries. Then assemble small, cross-silo teams and get them in-country to find ways to better deliver healthcare access in that emerging market.

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Innovation P&L Short-term Company 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

In an effort to explore executives’ motivations for serving on boards, we looked at how board service is evaluated in the executive labor market. As Mary Cranston, former CEO and Chairman of Pillsbury, LLP said in an interview , “Being on that board really helped me develop as a CEO because I had another CEO to watch.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In fact, there were six different groups managing two different processes governing product development. The wars between departments doubled the time required to bring a new product to market because teams were often given conflicting directions. The business unit teams focused on talent, customer segmentation, and marketing.

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P&L How To Finance Metrics 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Increasingly, Western companies are developing products in countries like China and India, and then distributing them globally. For example, GE developed an ultra-low-cost ultrasound for rural China which is now marketed in over 100 countries. and which they now sell in Europe and the U.S. The future is far from home.

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Glocalization Mass Marketing P&L Globalization 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2013

She holds the Ernest L. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. Why is P&G making this move, now? P&G is in the midst of a major restructuring, and has laid off thousands of people.

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P&L Restructuring Price CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2012

Two decades ago, organizations were designed around stand-alone business units, so all managers had to understand finance, technology, manufacturing, sales, marketing, strategy, human resources, and more. It also will force the functional service providers to be more market-driven.

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Management P&L Incubator Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Establish "an unbending standard of performance" : Since 1965, Buffett has annually compared Berkshire's compounded growth in book value per share to the growth in the S&P 500 (plus dividends). In all but seven of these 45 years, Berkshire beat the S&P. Berkshire's talented managers get the P&L independence to run their own businesses.

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Letter P&L Net Present Value Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market.

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P&L Fixed Assets Charan Delegation 8

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 18, 2019

Ruthless prioritization serves you—the CEO, the general manager, the team owner, the person on the hook for the P&L of your business. In the past, you may have felt tempted to delegate brand to marketing or even to an outside agency. It takes courage and conviction to develop and follow one.

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Brand P&L Delegation Loyalty 197

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources.

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Execution P&L CFO Globalization 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Even in the most commoditized markets, winning players need to create value by adding small slivers of differentiated services, logistics, quality and reliability. Decision making in today’s organizations often no longer has the necessary responsiveness, detaching them from both their customer base and market realities.

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CEO Supply Chain Disruptive Innovation P&L 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2019

However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. It’s clear that developing a customer-obsessed organization extends well beyond your customer service team. Reallocate advertising and marketing dollars to customer experience. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Company P&L Bottom-up Advertising 72

Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

In team development, research has shown that individual learning works best when accompanied by team learning. [1]. So the designer teaches everyone about UX/AI, the coders teach about their development methodology, the project managers teach about agile protocols, and the sales people describe what it is like in the field.

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Team How To Knowledge Management Self-aware 52

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

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P&L Lewin EBITDA Ries 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2017

I’ve also independently developed a number of online courses so have thought deeply about which kind of programming is appropriate for professionals’ needs. Do you really need to learn everything about corporate finance — or do you just need some accounting basics to help you get a better grasp on reading a P&L?

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P&L Education Learning-by-Doing Finance 8

Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2017

"When they get to own a P&L or become the CEO, in many cases executives are rusty at strategy or have never even been given a set of tools to set strategy," says management consultant Tim Lewko. Decide: What are the key products, markets, and capabilities? Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Process P&L CEO Execution 70

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. Market share expanded, cost controls tightened, safety improved, operational efficiency peaked, and so did profits. [For more, visit the Communication Insight Center.].

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2016

No matter how you look at it, there have been terrible, unintended outcomes from the introduction and marketing of next-generation prescription opioids. How did the making and marketing of drugs like OxyContin go so terribly wrong? has quadrupled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Commercial.

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Incentives Pharmaceuticals Crisis P&L 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Two-thirds of our respondents, for instance, said that they were tracking the number of projects in their development pipeline. Market share, cost reductions, and profit margins of new businesses are examples of impact metrics. P&L impact or other financial impact. Number of projects in the innovation pipeline.

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Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

One class discussion that gets the light-bulbs flashing is a case study analysis of a brilliant functional expert, Harris (not his real name), who gets sent to an elite business school’s general management program with the promise of a promotion into a P&L role upon his return. Figure out your market value.

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Career P&L How To Mentor 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2012

Cespedes and Benson P. Plus our sales cycles are long, and developing cross-functional relationships at customers is a key sales task. In fact it's not mainly about cost management at all — though that's certainly important in these market conditions. They were soon ushered into the restaurant's private dining room.

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P&L Management Chemicals Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Don’t Get Trapped in Your P&L. That’s why the organizations that are able to innovate consistently — over a period of years or even decades — develop a systematic and disciplined process for identifying new problems outside the normal operational content. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Innovation P&L ROI Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Who has P&L authority? Citibank Asia, which has a strong customer loyalty position in most of its markets, decided to change its operating model to double down on customer relationships to counter locally based competitors. Aligning the big picture with the day-to-day. It includes accountabilities. ” he asked. .”

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Strategy Company Banking Apparel 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Face facts: Most boards invest heavily in executive assessments, exposing chief-executive candidates to C-suite responsibilities and checking their P&L performance — while simultaneously scanning outside prospects. Stay inside or consider an “outside-in” candidate.

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CEO Committee P&L Charan 8