Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

What are your thoughts about a family owning a franchise business? Many families own successful franchise businesses. Of course, franchises come with rules and requirements from the franchisor -- you are not as free to build the business in your own way as you might be if you started a business from scratch. Absolutely!

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

I began blogging about leadership, strategy, marketing and life last February. You’re Not a Real Marketer until You Create a Brand [link]. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link].

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Even those who manage to survive may not always be successful in making their businesses profitable. There are many reasons for most start-up businesses to fail, but the main reasons are these: Lack of practical management skills. When a business grows, an entrepreneur cannot manage it alone. Entrepreneurship Skills.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2021

Apart from conducting detailed market research, finding out fair clientele, performing surveys, retaining target groups, exploring SEO, and researching public data, which are obviously important factors, one must also remain very adaptable to changing situations. What will be the market where you want to get into?

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 11, 2011

Leadership. by John • December 11, 2011 • Branding , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 1 Comment. Believe me, there’s nothing that can match the turnaround experience in teaching or seasoning a young manager. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Turnarounds and the Big Play. And guess what? About John.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create additional, in-depth training programs for managers. When a potential HR discrimination issue arises, it will likely be brought to the attention of one of your managers first. Even one remote worker in a state may make your company liable for franchise taxes or a different standard of workers’ compensation insurance.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 18, 2015

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. They’ve never franchised. Their economic performance supports the theory that specialists beat generalists.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The more common case, however, is that someone (the coach, general manager, or owner) plays a strong role in consciously and consistently putting together the right players, coaches, and front office that form a cohesive, effective unit. That is why most great leaders spend the majority of their time on the art of people management.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Create additional, in-depth training programs for managers. When a potential HR discrimination issue arises, it will likely be brought to the attention of one of your managers first. Even one remote worker in a state may make your company liable for franchise taxes or a different standard of workers’ compensation insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Fed up with peppy leadership books? Bulleted lists of do's and don'ts that make management sound duh-level straightforward, when it's anything but? Taiwanese-born Wen-Szu Lin thought he had a great opportunity when he bought the franchise rights to Auntie Anne's in China. Raised in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

After looking hard at the numbers and algorithms, the smartest — and richest — general managers and franchises have made up their collective minds: They're not paying a premium for yesterday. The cultural values of loyalty and leadership are being redefined by the economic value of forecasting methodologies (PDF).

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 6, 2014

I recently stopped for lunch at a franchise restaurant. I support cause related marketing and have advised many corporations on setting up such programs. I went to their website, where franchise chains allege they want customer comments. I say it is not, and I’m an expert on cause-related marketing.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Fed up with peppy leadership books? Bulleted lists of do's and don'ts that make management sound duh-level straightforward, when it's anything but? Taiwanese-born Wen-Szu Lin thought he had a great opportunity when he bought the franchise rights to Auntie Anne's in China. Raised in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

In a study of S&P 500 and Global 500 firms, our team found that those leading the most successful transformations, creating new offerings and business models to push into new growth markets, share common characteristics and strategies. These CEOs are what we call “insider outsiders.” The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

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. Let me say this as clearly as I can…a ready, fire, aim approach will rarely find the target.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2014

If you’re a mid- or late-career marketer, chances are your job today is mostly unrecognizable from what you signed on for. Many marketers are left behind, simply tuned in to the wrong frequencies. But data, alone, isn’t enough; search and social marketing, for example, are content hungry disciplines.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

How can you adapt management systems that are used to managing short-term performance to become capable of supporting a "test and learn" approach to innovation? How can you align leadership across a corporation to support these new, risky ventures when all of their DNA is committed to driving profits in today's franchise?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2015

One remote on which I joined Cactus was for the fourth KFC franchise in the United States. Senior corporate executives, especially those who rose to the rank of CEO, have had to adapt more in their careers than young people who never rise past mid-management. We got to interview Colonel Harlan Sanders on his new business venture.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

This striking gap signals an opportunity for companies: Secure a competitive advantage by building your employees' ability to succeed in the increasingly complicated labyrinths of today's — and tomorrow's — markets. In our experience, social entrepreneurs can be extraordinary role models in this regard.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Investing in tools and the change management that goes with them is essential. For example, when the Sacramento Kings took on new ownership, the basketball franchise’s sales leadership adopted social selling, which drove a shift in confidence, especially among its newer reps.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Specifically, he saw that the advent of digital technologies was going to fundamentally alter the way people conduct commerce, pay for things, and manage and move their money. Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market. So it is expanding our franchise.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. ” Observers debated whether this was lazy branding or a very deliberate effort to market the iPad as a sibling to the Mac. That’s why Harvard Business School marketing professors John T.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. Bottom line: Are you game or are you out? And have you heard that we have more mobile phones than any other continent besides Asia?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2013

Size can be represented as market share, revenue, or units sold, depending on the context. As a result, both have been reduced to tortoises, and leadership that was built over decades was decimated in just a few years. It needs to treat this like a disciplined experiment and fine tune the parameters actively as it gets market feedback.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 7, 2013

The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. There became too many competitors, too much franchising, too much hype and just as many who exited the industry as quickly as they entered it. In 1959, radio stations used to do live remotes from advertisers’ locations. No, he never returned.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries. Market focus. The non-profit Karuna Trust now manages 68 health centers in seven Indian states through a public-private partnership model.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Any number of franchised coaching offerings can be purchased at affordable prices, numerous affliliations with the hot coaching brand de-jure are available for the asking, or if all else fails coaches can just go it alone as a solo practitioner – the more the merrier right?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. We simply need to restore principled leadership in Washington.

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