Eric Jacobson

MAY 26, 2020

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 27, 2021

Years ago, when I decided to allow team members to work from home a few days a week, I worked with my managers to create an elaborate schedule of the days team members would WFH and be in the office. My managers and I found we had to work differently, and more intentionally, to foster relationships with team members. Yes, they are.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 17, 2019

“By understanding how their own mind works and training it for the most essential qualities, leaders can lead themselves effectively first, in order to better lead their people and tap into their human need for meaning, fulfillment and human connectedness,” explain Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter , authors of the book, The Mind Of The Leader.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. You help others to envision a brighter and better future when you spread hope which helps them to manage the stress.

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How To Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 94

Skip Prichard

JUNE 16, 2020

Maya Hu-Chan is a management consultant, executive coach, author, and speaker, and founder of Global Leadership Associates. It speaks to a deeper human need for dignity and acceptance, and the ways we grant dignity to one another. Linda is a manager at a software company. Me neither.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

All humans need to feel appreciated. Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees. What motivates employees to sell, manage, service or connect with people the way they do? Everyone is motivated by different things.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. You help others to envision a brighter and better future when you spread hope which helps them to manage the stress.

How To 65

How To Leadership Uncertainty Long-term 65

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The long-term is here today.” -- Blair Sheppard, Global Leader, Strategy and Leadership for the PwC network and author of, Ten Years to Midnight: Four Urgent Global Crises and Their Strategic Solutions. You help others to envision a brighter and better future when you spread hope which helps them to manage the stress.

Leadership 65

Leadership Uncertainty Long-term Supply Chain 65

Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

All humans need to feel appreciated. Graham Weston, co-founder and CEO of Rackspace Managed Hosting, gives the keys to his BMW M3 convertible for a week to his top performing employees. What motivates employees to sell, manage, service or connect with people the way they do? Everyone is motivated by different things.

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Webinar Library Motivation Video 133

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Billion, a truly global business, a worldwide workforce in excess of 11,000 and an enviable long-term record of revenue and profit growth. The culture Goodnight has fostered at SAS works because it meets human needs that are necessary to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

We named the effort "Global New Directions," and we knew we'd picked the right people almost immediately when they told us that they didn't want to retain employees, they wanted to inspire them. We're essentially reimagining a vision for the global nexus of ideas. And we're always looking to broaden the dialogue.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

Trends – and behavior more broadly – are ultimately rooted in our basic, fundamental, rarely-if-ever-changing human needs, wants and desires. When drivers of change bump up against consumers’ immovable human needs and wants tension arises. You’ll agree that these desires don’t come and go from season to season.

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Trends Supply Chain Innovation Human Needs 50

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Delight Global Snacks Consumers. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals. Unleash the power of iconic heritage brands.

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Combe also claim to be enjoying global growth. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In consumer business strategy – from branding to product development – addressing the emotional human needs continuum is crucial to success. Businesses that seek to create superior product/service experiences need to learn how to empathize with consumers’ needs. The Value of Human Needs. About the Author.

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Press Release Marketing Human Needs Advertising 50

Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Billion, a truly global business, a worldwide workforce in excess of 11,000 and an enviable long-term record of revenue and profit growth. The culture Goodnight has fostered at SAS works because it meets human needs that are necessary to thrive at work: respect, recognition, belonging, autonomy, personal growth and meaning.

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Conference Bottom-up Software Long-term 261

In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 1, 2011

After the stint at Bristol-Myers, I moved on to Beecham Products (now GlaxoSmithKline) as Brand Manager of Brylcreem Hairdressing, Macleans Toothpaste and Silvikrin Shampoo. Combe also claim to be enjoying global growth. 5 principles of simplicity via @ matthewemay [link] Humans need a reminder RT @ hunterwalk Good design teaches.

Brand 131

Brand CEO Stage-Gate Marketing 131

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 17, 2014

When businesses look beyond the rational data, and into the meaning behind their customers’ feelings, and behaviors, they will recognize the human needs that drive decision making. Control, one of the six core emotional needs I discuss in Empathetic Marketing , fuels our motivations in every aspect of our lives.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As a leader in business, you are familiar with the fact that you have risks that need to be managed or avoided completely. Trust has taken a back seat to a host of culture development programs and, over the past few years, cost cutting measures to survive the global financial crisis have eroded trust even further.

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Bottom-up Reputation Organization Crisis 99

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Whether to localize global-brand marketing programs remains one of the most contentious debates in multinational organizations. The head office, meanwhile, takes the position that achieving scale justifies losing some local customers in return for global efficiencies. But what if these brand managers are wrong? Insight Center.

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Marketing Brand Management Brand Globalization 9

Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Letitia, a senior leader at a global insurance company that I worked with, was adamant that her leadership team cultivate the trait of being open. Here’s a shocking statistic: two-thirds of senior managers can’t name their firm’s top priorities! When communicating, you need to have a clear and concise central message.

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Leadership Open-book Learning-by-Doing Quality 105

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dubbed the “Alien Dreadnought,” Tesla’s new manufacturing facility in Fremont, California, was designed to be fully automated — no humans need apply. Humans are underrated.” As such, many companies are trying to grow the talent they need in-house. It was going to be the factory of the future.

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Power Engineering Analysis Training 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2014

This was a major theme at the Global Education & Skills Forum last week in Dubai. At the forum we were reminded that the global economy is facing a “talent time bomb.” Therefore we need to see significantly greater investment in the education systems of these parts of the world – and others.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2014

Case in point: In my work as a psychologist and organizational consultant, I recently sat in on a strategy session at a global company. The managers were discussing how to better engage their employees. It wasn’t the first time I’d heard Maslow’s name in a meeting of managers. Different people are motivated by different things.

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Maslow Motivation Bottom-up Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Through our work at the global design and innovation firm IDEO and David’s work at Stanford University’s d.school, we’ve helped thousands of executives and students develop breakthrough ideas and products, from Apple’s first computer mouse to next-generation surgical tools for Medtronic to fresh brand strategies for the North Face in China.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

Brilliant, hard-working machines will require job reviews every bit as much as lazy and toxic humans. Effective executives understand the productivity and customer loyalty future depends as much on motivating and managing their machines as inspiring their people.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 13, 2014

To recognize what is driving either end, consider these six universal human needs and how each is being met, or not, in your job. The first need is respect. We need to be around people who are courteous and considerate. The next need is recognition. Are you performing at the top of your game at work?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Although leaders are concerned with collective success, most organizations—from sports teams to universities to global companies—still focus on rewarding individual performance. Organizations traditionally use financial rewards to motivate employees, but great leaders also fulfill the social needs of their employees.

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Cooper Sports Groupthink Construction 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Instead of just STEM, we should perhaps be promoting STEMMA — raising a new generation that also has greater capacities for managing collective human endeavors and appreciating the arts. Humans are not robots and neurons are not digital switches. It is not either/or, but both.

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Skills Drucker Gordon Ethics 8

In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The reason: a fundamental flaw in the management process that is supposed to renew brand health. The blemish is the abdication of brand attention by top management. CEOs (and to some extent, CMOs) are so preoccupied with Wall Street and/or the management fad of the day that their eye has drifted from the heartbeat of their brands.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Dan Hollings, online marketing director for The Secret , used AdWords to identify hot-button keywords and test landing page themes until he hit upon the winner: a series of curiosity-provoking trailers based on the human need to solve riddles. invests pennies to earn millions.

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Advertising How To Media Outsourcing 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

The second core need all of us share is to feel emotionally secure — meaning valued, recognized, and appreciated. Less than 40 percent of employees worldwide feel their managers are genuinely interested in their well-being. The fourth and final core human need is for significance.

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Fixed Assets Competitive Advantage Commitment Definition 15

CoachStation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Few managers and leaders are conducting useful one-on-ones and when they do, often miss the mark in making them effective and productive. Two of the most important, yet under-rated skills for managers and leaders are listening and questioning. It is too easy to get caught up in the operational and tactical aspects of management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Human suffering is certainly our main concern in the immediate aftermath of Japan's 3/11 tragedy. But even as we focus on immediate human needs, we cannot avoid recognizing — and coping with — the long economic shadow cast by this disaster. The direct impact on real economic activity worldwide is already being felt.

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GDP Aggregate Demand Supply Chain Crisis 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2014

When Paul arrived at Unilever in 2009, I was running the global laundry and home care business and also the water business around the world. So the role of marketing as I see it is identifying those deeper human needs and providing solutions. What’s the rationale for that? The construct came from our CEO Paul Polman.

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