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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

Great Leadership By Dan

They check websites, blogs, or peer reviews that they trust. Gen Xers and Baby Boomers need to realize that how they grew up is affecting the way they are selling and marketing their organizations. But you cannot sell and market to Millennials the same way you were sold and marketed to. Information is essential.

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Loyalty Beyond Reason Defined

Leading Blog

This is a post by Brian Sheehan, author of Loveworks: How the World''s Top Marketers Make Emotional Connections to Win in the Marketplace. You can become a Lovemark. * * * Brian Sheehan, author of Loveworks : How the World''s Top Marketers Make Emotional Connections to Win in the Marketplace , is Associate Professor of Advertising at the S.I.

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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? The problem rests however in how this pre-occupation with being acknowledged as a “leader” by your peers is perceived by your employees. My most recent peer review included a comment that I needed to get a better car. The other employees: Do they know you? Read a novel.

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Cracking the Behavior Code

Great Leadership By Dan

Marketers claim that cajoling in just the right way will get things done. He is the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, the nations largest pharmacy benefits management company, and has authored and published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers. Educators tell us that better behavior requires better information.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. There has been a rapid uptake in health care, consumer marketing, crime reduction, agriculture, scientific research, and many other areas.

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Good Bosses Switch Between Two Leadership Styles

Harvard Business Review

These two leadership styles, which I and other researchers refer to as dominance and prestige , respectively, reflect two fundamental strategies people use to navigate their way through social and organizational hierarchies. Some leadership situations call for dominance, whereas others call for prestige.

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions. In the U.S.

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