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

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

My guess is that it was not the know it all professors who lived to put you in your place and show you how much they knew and you didn’t. My suspicion is your best memories are of those teachers who inspired you, encouraged you, brought out your passion, and challenged you in a positive fashion. The boss will never go for that.&#

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Nevertheless the reality is this…blogs are not a tool for those looking to get rich quickly (that train left the station a long time ago), nor are they likely to transform insignificant thoughts into something other than what they are. You Know How To Say It : Mark Twain I’m not, but for the most part I can put across a cogent thought.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll share some thoughts on how to make sure the lunatics don’t gain control of the asylum… Let’s begin by defining “Crazy.&# Be well and have a great day sp [link] mikemyatt Glad to hear you've got the train back on the tracks, and I hope this post was of some use.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

only to fail in miserable fashion. Leaders and non-leaders alike need career-pathing, training and development. IMO, what passes as 'leadership training' is often managerial grooming in disguise. They get the job done, they stand out from the crowd, they don’t need identifying – you know who they are.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

The first key in understanding how to make great decisions is learning how to synthesize the overwhelming amount incoming information leaders must deal with on a daily basis, while making the best decisions possible in a timely fashion. Tweets about this great post on TwittLink.com [.] Well said Sir.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Talk fashion. HOW TO SAY IT: Talk positive. His website, www.gitomer.com , will lead you to more information about training and seminars, or email him personally at salesman@gitomer.com. Talk vacation. Talk travel. Talk books. Talk movies. Talk culture. Talk passion. Talk ideas. Talk social media. Windshield time.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

We know how crucial it is to having talent who love working for us and who will offer discretionary effort and innovation. We even know how to quantify all this stuff. They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. How to Be a Soul-Sucking CEO.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 6, 2011

Teaching someone how to get to a yes is one of the most valuable things a leader can do. Parents are raising their children in the same fashion and we are breeding a world where people cant take rejection, and people or managers who do say no are bad or don't practice "intellegent leadership."

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I’ve addressed this topic before, but perhaps not in this fashion…True leadership is dedication to something beyond self. I believe the fear of public misperceptions have trained many people to completely avoid outward displays of compassion. It’s as if it has been socialized out of them over time. I admire this.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

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. Combine social media with traditional marketing techniques for breakthrough results! And the Clients Went Wild!

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Wilde Newsletter Marketing Motivation 50

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2018

Still others describe it as the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us. So before we could focus on how to improve self-awareness, we needed to synthesize these findings and create an overarching definition. Take Jeremiah, a marketing manager.

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Self-aware How To Learning-by-Doing Participative 19

Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2021

Customer contacts, payment details, marketing data, product inventories, supplier information, and more. To avoid these unpleasant scenarios, any business owner needs to know how to manage their data. One of the most effective tools in any business’s arsenal is digital marketing. Train your team. Create a plan.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 22, 2011

It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. A young, inexperienced, but talented associate had what he thought was a plan for a powerful new marketing initiative. Essentially, when people stop believing they can win, some then devote their energy to how best to lose.

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CEO How To Venture Capitalist Follow-up 57

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Kick-starting the effort in truly retro fashion, they hired actors to dress up as Minnie and Mickey Mouse, lock themselves to Walt Disney’s headquarters building, and fly a banner reading "Disney is destroying Indonesia's rain forests.”. But that all changed when they switched tack and targeted, not the company itself but its customers.

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Fashion Video Morale Magazine 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

Its cars didn’t match up well with those of top luxury brands like Mercedes, BMW, and Audi, yet the company lacked the capacity to compete with mass-market leaders like Toyota and GM. He hired salespeople and marketers from Google, who transformed Volvo’s use of technology and social media in those disciplines.

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Engineering Mass Marketing Automotive Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

By viewing product development and marketing as integrated functions, not silos, leading tech companies like Facebook and Pinterest are rethinking their approach to driving growth and achieving breakthrough results. Yet, the Growth Manager role remains poorly understood, especially outside Silicon Valley. So what makes a good Growth Manager?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 26, 2020

Quality control has always been important, but in today’s market, it is essential. Instead of thinking about what they could do to make the company better, they’re consumed by thoughts of how to prevent negative evaluations at their performance review. Even though they have fallen out of fashion, they’re not defunct.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

As CEO of the TLEX Institute, Johann Berlin specializes in bringing mindfulness training to CEOs and corporate teams. “Most of our new clients … are not sold by mindfulness as a novelty. “There was this one instance where the market tanked and there was panic on the desk. The trading desk was an organized riot.

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CEO Emotional Intelligence Cooper Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

The head of a business unit — we’ll call him Cal — was weighing three finalists for the open position of marketing VP, who would also report through a dotted line to the corporate CMO. It takes a long time to build trust and political capital, but you can lose credibility very fast. Consider this example.

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Advice Emotional Intelligence Management Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works , Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Myriad potential public policy-related risks and opportunities for companies arise across a broad spectrum of political and economic systems — from the state capitalism of former Communist states to the “ mixed economies ” in traditional “liberal” democracies, from developed to developing markets.

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Policies Politics Short-term Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. So the Foundation convened aid organization leaders and asked how it could help. Take Cisco. Many graduates join Cisco as employees, contributing to the firm's bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

Dench's character lands her first job, drawing on her experience and accumulated know-how to train young Indian call center workers in the subtleties of cross-cultural communications. Next year's The Intern features Tina Fey as the founder of a fashion company who takes on a 70-something mentee.

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Outsourcing Film Hotels Open-book 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

While culture tells us how to behave, identity tells us who we are. Around 85 players, between the ages of 12 and 18 years, either live in or visit the school every day for education and training. In hyper-competitive markets, instead of focusing on what they’re good, most companies tend to react to rivals’ strategies.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

In a recent post , I described how Tesco, the $100 billion U.K. and in its home market in the U.K. In the UK, Tesco lost the plot several times in recent years as they grew to double the market share of competitors like Sainsbury''s and Asda/WalMart. It''s a great success story, but there''s a catch.

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Organization Supply Chain Customer Intimacy Stress 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

He will be “on trend,” as they say in fashion — in recent months, leaders from the new Mayor of New York to the Pope have also been vocal on the subject. In other words, business should wait to be told how to address the issue. Action could take the form of supporting worker skills training in broader communities.

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Golden Parachute Apparel Trends Short-term 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

But in most of the cases we’ve seen, how to invest to scale such inventions has not been evident. Local Craft : Africa is a land of craft with local artisans involved in leather works for shoes, bags, and fashion. But participants are poorly trained and produce low quality products.

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Innovation Engineering Entrepreneur Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Our work covers each brand’s visual identity, from the product itself all the way to the marketing and merchandising activities that bring a brand to life across different platforms—music, sports, fashion, and so forth. Let’s say that in the room there is a marketer who tells me the brand is not visible enough.

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Organization Brand Six Sigma Innovation 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

If you choose to dive into the social media world without a strategy, without understanding how to create social media influence, you will not be pleased with your results. Become a part of them as opposed to a vendor to them …This is a difficult concept for old-school marketers to get their arms around, but a critical one nonetheless.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2016

For instance, teams that prioritize reliability over adaptability (think accounting departments) may require highly stable structures — and they’re often well served by traditional training (in regulated environments, the rules are the rules, and you have to know and apply them).

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Company Management Learning-by-Doing Tactics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. It’s the things that scare you the most that you have to do…One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” We asked her how she stays ahead of the curve.

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

Any company in a truly competitive market suffers an inevitable decline if it ignores this basic discipline for too long. Zara, the Spanish fast-fashion company, receives quantitative data and qualitative observations from store managers daily to better understand what customers want.

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Mayo How To Banking Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In recent years, the fashionable suggestion has been that companies sell experiences and solutions, solving the needs and aspirations of customers. A focus on solutions might mean they figure out how to help you reach your goal weight. Branding and marketing. Traditional marketing has focused on short-term immediate benefits.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2017

In the world of marketing, brand anthropomorphism can be a powerful mechanism for connecting with consumers. How to Properly Rear Your Brand Ambassador. It’s no surprise then that “personality training” is becoming such a serious business, and people who perform that task can come from a variety of backgrounds.

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Brand Disintermediation Ethics Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

According to a new book by Harvard Business School’s Ranjay Gulati, it is customer-centric firms—those with a so-called outside-in perspective—that are most resilient during turbulent markets. Gaining real insights into customers’ needs demands more of companies than those arising from typical market research.

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Education Execution Content Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

Their job done, they fell out of favor in the ‘80s and ‘90s as focus came into fashion. In the near future, if jet sales are down, GE’s Alabama plant could switch over to supplying parts for trains, medical devices, or whatever division is selling strong. 3D printing offers even more advantages to these groups.

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