Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Even though you’re not part of this particular project, I bet, within a few seconds, you’ll have worked out what I’m trying to achieve. I’ve been tasked with the content marketing effort for a hotel website and a key part of it is the blogging strategy. This may be the project, meeting title or business idea. Take a look again.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 6, 2010

For many, leadership has become just another buzzword. We used to go to “management training,&# and now we go to “leadership training.&# We are team leaders, program leaders, project leaders, thought leaders, market leaders, and cheerleaders. Leadership is always substantive and rarely fashionable.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

When it comes to tradition, the challenge today is how to motivate the next generation to work in old-fashioned (read: unsocial as in media and societal interactions) work cultures. Foster an understanding of how learning directly leads to results/next project. Provide immediate feedback.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 9, 2012

A leader’s ability to create a collaborative environment through open communication and mutual understanding is undoubtedly becoming a critical leadership skill in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. But how do you establish and maintain team harmony if those team dynamics are in constant flux?

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 11, 2021

Prior industry experience is very important for entrepreneurs targeting some markets, but less important for other markets. If you launch a beverage brand or a fashion apparel company, industry experience is super valuable. All three types can be gained by working for a big company before launching a venture.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

The marketing professionals in your business, don’t think the same as the risk department. Although they’re on the same team, they talk differently, use specific language and if you really get down to the human psyche, they even dress in a similar fashion. Departmental cultures exist because we all come from different backgrounds.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

While many equate strong personal branding only to powerful leadership, there's a lot more that goes into crafting a personal brand statement. Great leaders often align their leadership values with personal beliefs and ethics of their own. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

To this day I’m amazed at how many CEOs still own tasks, roles, projects, and responsibilities that should be delegated to others. Kicking the bird out of the nest and saying go fly with the project is short sighted and very weak leadership.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress I’m not a fashion consultant — but I do know good choices of clothing and bad ones. Who got the best projects, the largest teams, the raises, and the promotions? So if someone is looking or approaching you — you might not realize that you are actually presenting yourself with a less than appealing demeanor. What did I do?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. 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.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. These rubber pieces are produced from a mold, so once the company has fashioned the mold (which can be quite expensive) the costs for making each part for sale is quite low.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

Creating a framework for decisioning, using a published delegation of authority statement, encouraging sound business practices in collaboration, team building, leadership development, and talent management will all help even out the uneven. If conflict does flare up, you will likely minimize its severity by dealing with it quickly.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Mazzeo : We were continually surprised by the creative strategies that small businesses had developed to compete better in their markets. These rubber pieces are produced from a mold, so once the company has fashioned the mold (which can be quite expensive) the costs for making each part for sale is quite low.

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Travel Learning-by-Doing PR Open-book 74

Women on Business

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Salinger, famous for “Catcher in the Rye” passed away this year, as did the talented fashion designer Alexander McQueen. This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. The brilliant writer, J.D. The Bush law did allow a $1.3

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 202

Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

For example, he worked purposefully to fashion an image of himself as a hardworking, hands-on inventor (he once reportedly smeared soot on his hands and face before an interview to bolster that reputation). [1] What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities? Moreover, it’s hard. “I

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Rajesh Setty

OCTOBER 1, 2013

How the Book Series Project Came About: The trigger was a conversation with the editor of Scott’s book “Making Ideas Happen” and brainstormed ideas for a book series. You know that you need to spend time on your creative projects with the same respect that you give to the meetings with someone. You now what to do.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

It’s more than simply clumsy leadership. Demonstrate the leadership and clarity that will drive not only [your] own investment returns but also the prosperity and security of [your] fellow citizens.”. They’re free to innovate and create market-differentiating, competitive ideas. It’s a breach of promise. Their hearts will break.

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CEO Short-term Learning-by-Doing Blanchard 161

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

“Why change my leadership style? It got us to this point, where we’ve established a real beachhead in our market.”. One such abrupt transition — from project to process mode — occurs once a company launches its initial sales efforts and begins to service its first customers.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

subprime mortgages, instead doing business the old-fashioned way, with 80 percent of revenues derived from retail banking. While so much expansion can be tough on a brand, Santander is moving quickly to rebrand all of its acquisitions under the Santander name and launched substantial marketing campaigns in the U.K., and Latin America.

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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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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

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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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

Steve Farber

AUGUST 23, 2016

—that I used to get after teaching the canned, scripted workshops that were the staples of my earlier days in the leadership development business. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the idea of changing the world as the core business and leadership proposition, but I still found myself doubting my ability to actually get it done.

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Leading Blog

MAY 4, 2020

This was because the market for mobile games had become more competitive, making it difficult to acquire users cheaply. Traditionally, entrepreneurs love to talk about their product, but investors need to know about more than just the product - the market, the team, competitors, business model, etc. I call it the killer slide.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As fashionable as it is, “data science” is not a business objective or a learning objective in and of itself. Prediction is the Holy Grail for more effectively executing mass scale operations in marketing, financial risk, fraud detection, and beyond. 1) Don’t Fall for Buzzwords — Clarify Your Objective.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Is the innovation effort only inducing fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the market, or is the company really walking the talk? Is she motivated extrinsically through incentives, or is she intrinsically passionate and committed to the project? Or is this just another aspirational flavor of the month?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2017

Slow innovation projects can be just as impactful in the long-term. Their extended timelines struggle to weather leadership change. And, for those managing such projects, it can be difficult to sustainably guide them through circuitous organizational terrain. We call it slow innovation.

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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. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Consider, for example, the average investor's inability to understand the subtleties of fashion design or scientific research. It apparently takes a courageous and confident board member to second-guess the market! Operational decisions at the firm are often influenced by the short-term price.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

Discussions about story and storytelling are pretty fashionable in marketing circles. On the other hand, I''m worried that too many marketers think that telling their story through advertising is enough. The story is understood and cared about by senior leadership outside of marketing. Marketing Strategy'

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Storytelling Company Marketing Strategy Media 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

And while you're in your apartment, organizing W-2s and awkwardly navigating free online software (OK, maybe I'm projecting here), many big U.S. Old-Fashioned Personnel Assessments Are Demotivating and Unhelpful (Washington Post On Leadership). companies (or at least their money) are in a much more interesting places.

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Fashion Performance Review Sharpe Budgeting 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. The Growth Manager also needs creativity, strategic thinking, and of course leadership.

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Company Management Objective Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2018

We think there’s something more here than executive over-exuberance or slowing markets. It requires foundational investments in skills, projects, infrastructure, and, often, in cleaning up IT systems. P&G could probably have lost little ground to competitors had it invested in digital in a more targeted fashion.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2014

British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes has never been afraid to stand out. But she’s moved on to other projects, and today’s hottest designers credit her influence. Craig Venter made waves in 1998 when he and his for-profit company challenged the public Human Genome Project to a DNA-sequencing race. (It

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Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Creativity 14

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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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections. Champion : Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted. " Regards, Leadership Freak Dan Rockwell [link] Bob MacNeal Mike, Thanks for this helpful post. Senior leadership must champion any new idea being adopted.

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