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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

We regularly share information and costs across business activities. Our strategy emphasizes versatility and empowerment in allocating human resources. Conscientious folks are “high achievers that feel a strong need to take responsibility for doing things immediately” (p. percent in return on assets (ROA), 5.01

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Why Great Brands Lose Their Way

In the CEO Afterlife

I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. I searched the information network, but came up empty-handed with regard to this CEO’s views on what the brand stands for in the consumer’s mind. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation? That’s an understatement.

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It's Harder than Ever to Be a Senior Executive

Harvard Business Review

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources.

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

To stitch it all together meaningfully, CMOs are increasingly expected to act as general managers with P&L or shared/shadow P&L responsibility that drive revenue growth. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. Some of the more obvious benefits of knowledge management are: Sharing of valuable organizational information throughout organizational hierarchy. ISBN 0262133849.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. It has changed the way we communicate, behave and think. But it has also led to a dramatic decline in our people skills.

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business Review

It also informs future spending levels, allocation of the budget across programs and media, and which messages a marketer chooses. While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. Comparing marketing efficiency with competitors.

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