Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2019

In February 2018, Musk launched the now-famous red Tesla Roadster sports car into space, atop the first SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Musk’s antics occurred at a time when Tesla’s investors were becoming increasingly concerned over its finances and ability to build cars at scale. Who else has a roller coaster? …

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. Musk’s long arc in guiding Tesla from highly-ignored sports car, which financed the luxury Model S, which, in turn, made possible the 3, is now crushing an entire global industry. The second is to lead innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. Loyalty is a missing ingredient in job market of both the secular and sacred. Show-up : You can’t make a difference if you don’t show-up.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 31, 2010

Sure it would…Likewise, if I drove up in a new Bentley, wearing a $3,000 custom tailored suit, sporting a fresh manicure, a GQ hair-cut, and with an attitude of arrogance, wouldn’t that also color your opinion of my ability?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Marshall Goldsmith : Leadership is a contact sport and it’s often messy. Among the many things that make leadership more challenging today is the global market in which leaders must compete. All three of these individuals have had a profound and positive impact on those individuals and organizations which they have led.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Closing gaps becomes much easier when you can position differences as non-adversarial and operate within a framework of trust. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Real life is not a spectator sport – it’s a participation sport, and in fact, I submit to you that it’s a full contact participation sport. Recently I spoke to a group of high-school marketing educators about the current state of social media marketing. Thanks for adding to the discussion Becky.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. World authority on project management.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

In thinking of your example of sports teams, for example, is it possible that leaders can emerge at different times, for different purposes or tasks? One question: in addition to the hierarchy (focused accountability) you identify so well, is it still possible that leadership can emerge at any level?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Remember that leadership is not a spectator sport. It is more critical than ever in today’ economic climate that leadership development be a top priority for CEOs who want to build a thriving enterprise moving forward. Great leaders will do anything to get off the bench and into the game.

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Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

What really occurred was a financial commodities bubble caused by a complicated set of games-playing in the commodities markets by banks operating with secret and unfair federal exemptions to bring investment money into a place it was never supposed to be. 

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

These executives have responsibilities we might expect to reside within marketing. That leaves Chief Marketing Officers with a decision — do you see the rise of these roles as an opportunity or a threat? Marketing faces a particular challenge since customer engagement has traditionally been considered its domain.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

But many businesswomen are so overwhelmed with running day-to-day operations, there is little or no time to do a good job at casting the net of promotional effort out—whether through community activities, donations, networking events, promotional campaigns, public relations initiatives, or advertising—it is NEVER enough!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The marketing budget to cement that perception was nearly $100 million, but the opening weekend not only missed financial expectations, it flat-lined. Disney admitted its studio would have an operating loss of $80-$120 million, making the film arguably the biggest flop of all time.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2011

Instead, we’ve looked for a new scapegoat, chosen to operate from the same fundamental theories, and doubled down on the same fixes." That theory, says Roger Martin, “had the unfortunate effect of tightly tying together two markets: the real market and the expectations market.” THE STORY BEGINS. Like us on Facebook.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2011

We compete with other kids in sports. In reality, each country needs the other to succeed in order to thrive — to finance growth, secure export markets, train talent, transfer technology, and more. For example, pharmaceutical firms license compounds to each other and co-promote products in different markets.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. When it comes to building management strength, these executives are similar to professional sports coaches. They want their teams to win this year, that is, to achieve their annual goals and objectives.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

For example, marketing optimizes its activities for its own benefit and the sales and customer service functions do likewise. The end-to-end process of customer acquisition and retention — getting rid of duplicate activities and information across marketing, sales and customer service — isnt touched.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2013

In order to see the future more clearly, it''s almost always helpful to look back — and this certainly goes for IT and its ever-increasing impact on operations, and ultimately on competitive advantage. Yet with each wave, the criticality of IT to basic operations and delivery of service to customers continues to escalate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

She ultimately realized she had to take control of how she told her story, and make those hiring managers understand she wasn’t marketing her flying abilities — it was about the leadership skills she’d developed. He tried tech, finance, and real estate — all to no avail. Do you have a strong work ethic?’”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

While both had top people, one was dramatically more successful in the market. You see it in business, in sports, in creative endeavors from movies to magazines. And then there are great sports examples, including Kyle Busch’s amazing six-man NASCAR pit crew. You can and should create an A-team.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In Precision’s case, good tactical performance required developing rules, checklists, and standard operating procedures and then following them closely. A great salesperson will operate much more efficiently with a defined process for reaching out to prospects. We made a number of operational changes to the call center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2014

The nine courses consisted of four that introduce the MBA core — Accounting, Finance, Marketing, and Operations Management — as well as Gamification and the Global Business of Sports. For business schools, then, MOOCs are a tremendous opportunity to expand into underserved markets.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. Of course I have. But it doesn’t help.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Home Run Media, a media agency that helped its clients plan and carry out their marketing strategies, had been operating for more than a decade when a key client in the fantasy sports industry began to grow rapidly, thanks in part to Home Run’s work and to a healthy dose of venture capital that was fueling its growth.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2011

To modify the Peter Drucker quote, "Culture eats tools for breakfast" — if you don't understand the culture you're operating in, creating change will be an uphill battle. They must be supported by incentives, different processes, training, and often changes in how adjacent activities are carried out (as tools rarely sit in isolation).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

I’ve developed this framework based on the experiences that my collaborators and I have had implementing prediction systems over the last 25 years in domains like finance, healthcare, education, and sports. Driverless cars, for example, operate in domains in which the physics is well understood.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Tactics deemed as ’standard operating procedure’ for some companies were exposed and ridiculed by others. billion as the stock market plummeted, amid a crisis of investor confidence. We have been subjected to the second longest bear market in history, the longest being that of the Great Depression.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Machine Shop began to offer its grassroots marketing services to other bands, film studios, TV networks, and brands. I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business. Our business now operates like a tech startup, with less hierarchy and far more agility.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), Moving from “top-down” valuation to “bottom-up” The default valuation method for finance professionals is “top-down” in nature.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

So I have a question for you, and I want you to be brutally honest with your answer - when you hear the word “ coach &# used outside the world of sports, what’s your gut reaction? We all "buy" consulting so if coaches just want to transact they just need to market and burnish their brand. Its about results.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

As a marketing and special events coordinator for an outdoor sports company in the Bay Area, she’d worked hard for months to prove herself worthy of a promotion. Eight months later, she landed an executive administrator role that expanded her duties outside of marketing. Case study #1: Proactively build your skills.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

And although senior managers’ remuneration was tied to Contect’s overall sales and operating profits, the head office had relatively little control over the 30,000 projects the company had underway at any given time. It hits our collective reputation and our finances.” Now Vera was getting worked up.

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