Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth: In most positions you rarely get the opportunity to experience the functions associated with the roles of a Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Marketing Officer, as well as manage the day-to-day requirements for customer engagement and retention.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 29, 2013

One of the primary functions of business strategy is choosing the dimensions of excellence in which the company will pursue leadership. For example, some businesses may focus their efforts on price leadership, some on full service, or some on convenience. The franchising concept has been wildly successful over the past 40 years.

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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. In this post, I compare the ineptitude of BP against the leadership of Rudy Giuliani during a much bigger crisis.

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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. I was Nabob’s VP of Marketing, a 32 year-old disciple of an excellent turnaround CEO – a fellow by the name of Hugo Powell who eventually moved on to Interbrew (now Anheuser-Busch InBev ) as CEO.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2020

They all have one thing in common: excellent entrepreneurship and leadership qualities that make them unique and reach success’s pinnacles. It is common in some stores to find ill-mannered sales personnel who force customers to buy their marketed products. Entrepreneurship Skills. No, it’s not their luck. Sociability.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Even one remote worker in a state may make your company liable for franchise taxes or a different standard of workers’ compensation insurance. And employee conflict, always a drag on productivity, is even more damaging in the tight post-Covid labor market. Additionally, remote work hasn’t caught up with state legislatures, yet.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Every General Manager of a sports franchise will tell you that building a great team is far from a science. As individuals we are all a bit unpredictable, and when you add the complexities associated with team interactions and the serendipitous nature of market environments, you end up with a very dynamic system.

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ExactHire - Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Even one remote worker in a state may make your company liable for franchise taxes or a different standard of workers’ compensation insurance. Employee conflict, which affects your productivity and culture, is even more damaging in the tight post-Covid labor market. Sometimes payroll mistakes will happen.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Fed up with peppy leadership books? Taiwanese-born Wen-Szu Lin thought he had a great opportunity when he bought the franchise rights to Auntie Anne's in China. and fresh out of business school, he seemed perfectly positioned to bring the addictive soft pretzels to this new market. 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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2013

Fed up with peppy leadership books? Taiwanese-born Wen-Szu Lin thought he had a great opportunity when he bought the franchise rights to Auntie Anne's in China. and fresh out of business school, he seemed perfectly positioned to bring the addictive soft pretzels to this new market. Raised in the U.S.

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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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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 13, 2016

Let me explain – any marketer can play the social media game and do it well with a concept that resonates. Herein lies the myth of social media marketing. Some people think that’s enough to build brand franchises. A message from a marketer doesn’t have to mean that at all. You don’t need deep pockets. Not so fast!

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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. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen. The result was the Booking.com platform.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

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? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation. This didn't work well.

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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. Humbled, validated and taking nothing for granted.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Women-owned entities in the formal sector represent approximately 37% of enterprises globally — a market worthy of attention by businesses and policy makers alike. Similarly, I recently met with Sanergy and Copia Global, Kenyan social enterprises using franchise models. I think it''s safe to say that it''s the latter.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

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? Bruce is familiar with all of these issues from his tenure as Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Marketing for the IBM Corporation. This didn't work well.

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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. Power Stars to Light the Business Flame , by Hank Moore, encompasses a full-scope business perspective, invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. 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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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 23, 2015

Guest post from Rowan Gibson : Not since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution has there been a greater need to learn the art of innovation leadership. Leveraging Resources: Thinking of a company as a portfolio of skills and assets rather than as a provider of products or services for specific markets.

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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

JULY 12, 2017

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. Eighty-four percent of sellers working with companies that prioritized this saw real impact.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2014

Instead of thinking about technology for technology’s sake, we studied the real consumer pain points in the market. There’s a saying that “It’s expensive to be poor,” and it really applies to these segments of the market. So it is expanding our franchise. Leadership' It was a technology-driven form factor.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

” 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. At Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and Owner/President Management Program. Weatherhead, Jr.

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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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Skip Prichard

JULY 29, 2019

I have been speaking, teaching and consulting on marketing and branding for 30 years, and I began to notice a disturbing trend. Those who can’t or won’t accommodate our growing demands are perceived as “poor” market players. From this mindset has come the “franchise approach.” How did you develop the list? . It’ll be great!”.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Market Position: Contracts, licenses, legal monopolies, customer lists. Business System: Organizational models, software investment, proprietary process, franchise rights. With more consumers, more "noise" from brand messaging, and more people invested in the stock market, there is greater transparency to these elements.

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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

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. Management and leadership skills. North Star Alliance is a strong example in SubSaharan Africa.

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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

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

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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