Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2019

A BRAND properly conceived is more than a marketing activity. Creating an ironclad brand is not just the function of the marketing department. What is your asymmetrical, lopsided, disproportionate strength that far exceeds the rest of the market? It must be sharp-edged. It’s more than a logo. It’s more than a great ad.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Their previous brand had a particular geographic focus, and the company wished to expand its market horizons while keeping their traditional name. They quickly recognised that sustaining and growing an organisation’s fortunes in a volatile market required courage of thought and action — and investment in the future. How did they do?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In leadership, we often discuss vision and blind spots. Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision. And they check to make sure that moving objects–be they customers, competitors, markets, or employees–don’t pose a significant threat.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In leadership, we often discuss vision and blind spots. Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision Great leaders know where their blind spots are, present a high-resolution vision of the organization’s future, and are mindful of activity happening on the periphery.

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In the CEO Afterlife

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Leadership. by John • October 30, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Marketing , Strategy • 4 Comments. In a strategy seminar I asked the leadership team to tell me what business they were in. Leadership , Marketing , Strategy. Leadership. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

In leadership, we often discuss vision and blind spots. Still, the image won’t be sharp unless you turn your head toward it. Leadership Vision. And they check to make sure that moving objects–be they customers, competitors, markets, or employees–don’t pose a significant threat.

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Leadership Objective Sharpe Diversity 60

Center for Creative Leadership

MAY 19, 2019

” Employees are constantly told they need to change processes and practices, only for the leadership team to keep on doing what they always do, and managers maintaining the same old routines. And with the right leadership, it’s an exciting and galvanizing message for employees. Becoming Resilient in the Face of Change.

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Altman Six Sigma COO Sharpe 86

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 13, 2011

Dress nicely and if you want to, add an element of flair to your wardrobe — a scarf, a sharp tie, a cool belt, cool shoes. I wore what they wore — sharp shirts and expensive slacks. When you first look at a person, the face is important, but your clothed body makes up a larger remainder of the perceived person. What did I do?

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Succession Sharpe Licensing Hedge 225

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Remember how much of a difference high definition television made when it first came to market? Asking why provides laser sharp, HD focus. In Inspiration , Leadership , Organizational Effectiveness , Personal Effectiveness , Questions. Can you make leadership seem easier, less complicated, and more fun? Leadership (26).

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Simon Sharpe Mentor Resources 243

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Lyft: Values-driven leadership: nobody does it alone. of that vision is a company called Lyft, the world’s fastest-growing ride-sharing firm, whose focus on values-based service and collaborative leadership serves as ballast during this period of exponential growth and change. Version 2.0 Pinterest: Redefining success.

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Competitive Advantage Banking Diversity IPO 70

Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 12, 2011

The Lean Startup delivers a lot of great insight for leadership and product management. Through this process of steering, we can learn when and if it’s time to make a sharp turn called a pivot or whether we should persevere along our current path.”. Put your focus and efforts into growing your products’ market share and revenue.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

It applies to your branding, marketing, supply chain, and ultimately to your customer base. Here is a simple rule of thumb…the bigger the key man policy the less scalable the company is. The dumb factor not only applies to talent, capital, and technology, but it also extends throughout the entire value chain.

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Business Model Brand Blog Supply Chain 344

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

To find out, it may be worthwhile to make some sharp distinctions between what Big Data driving AI can do, and what it cannot. Famously, Steve Jobs had no interest in market research when imagining where Apple needed to go next. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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CEO Balanced Scorecard Supply Chain Sharpe 66

LDRLB

JUNE 22, 2010

Prior to entering the private sector as a researcher and consultant, Rick spent a number of years as a university professor where he taught courses in research methods, statistics, marketing, communication, and psychology. Leadership trust' He received his Ph.D. from Michigan State in 1987. How did you define trust in your study?

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

LEADERSHIP Leadership skills aren’t just about being a boss or a manager. And when leadership skills are valued and encouraged in the performance evaluation process, employees are more likely to take ownership of their work, seek out new challenges, and contribute to the overall success of the organization.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November 2021. The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership : Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace by Tim Elmore. The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership unpacks the fresh strategies and new mindset required today from a next generation leader.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim (President of the World Bank), Peter Drucker (founder of modern management), Paul Hersey (noted author, teacher, and personal mentor of mine), and Warren Bennis (one of the world’s greatest leadership thinkers of his time). Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. Co-founder Partners in Health.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

A Choice, Not a Symptom “Confidence is a choice,” wrote marketing savant Seth Godin, “not a symptom.” In politics, what if Vice President Al Gore’s sharp intellect had been driven by on-center confidence and less by off-center arrogance, which made him come off as condescending in election debates with George Bush?

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Self-aware Comparison Learning-by-Doing Charisma 229

HR Digest

MAY 2, 2019

"Unleashing Collective Genius" As globalization takes a sharp turn from government to business, the issue of global talent mobility rapidly moves up the agenda. I’d say we’re very focused on creating a skilled workforce and leadership pipeline that can execute our strategy. Michael Fraccaro: That’s an interesting way to frame it.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Provide leadership. The sharp focus and direction on your objectives and goals can only be maintained with constant monitoring of your procedures and processes. Marketing plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals. A leader’s purpose and job is to give direction and purpose and motivate his people.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2014

The best Healthcare Executive Resumes outline human capital management, profitability successes, market share increases in addition to their impressive academic and association credentials that will generate the most calls for interviews. The following six healthcare resume and job search tactics will help you obtain the results you seek: 1.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 13, 2015

In New York City, you don’t have a choice, you have to walk in razor-sharp and razor-prepared and razor-ready. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! And both of those were developed in NYC.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Despite enormous resource constraints, Beane developed a system that applies a razor sharp focus on finding and hiring the most under-valued, and thus relatively inexpensive, athletes on the market.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Besides, I truly appreciate good marketing, and this is creative stuff! Still, all the great marketing in the world wont make a mini van cool. The humor is sharp, dry and keeps you looking for the next unexpected in-joke. Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) Just sayin.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp). Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2015

Your mother never told you to use the alternative of choice close or the sharp angle close on Johnny. Attitude , The Little Green Book of Getting Your Way , The Little Platinum Book of Cha-Ching , The Little Teal Book of Trust , The Little Book of Leadership , and Social BOOM! She just said make friends. Say nice things.

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Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Sharpe Seminar 50

Tim Milburn

OCTOBER 2, 2013

It’s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington’s corridors of power, they didn’t even stand out.” Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive. ” ACCOUNTABILITY.

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Waterman Automotive Learning-by-Doing Industry 140

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The Benevolent Dictator : Empower Your Employees, Build Your Business, and Outwit the Competition by Michael Feuer and Dustin Klein What does it require to take a concept rapidly and effectively from mind to market? A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical.

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Bottom-up Sharpe Follow-up Retail 50

Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

It''s that among the sharp-elbowed hordes pushing through Washington''s corridors of power, they didn''t even stand Out." Focused leadership over time implies productive, useful perseverance. The initial costs of entry, especially for marketing, will be prohibitive.

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Waterman Follow-up Automotive Learning-by-Doing 56

Reiter Thinks

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

My current projects are, expanding my own business through targeted marketing and empowering the right people to make key decisions. It helps you stay mentally sharp and is a great stress reliever. We need to celebrate those little victories together, no matter how small, along our climb towards success. Matt No trackbacks yet.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2016

And while two years of shrinking GDP growth , sanctions , and a volatile ruble have led some companies like GM to leave the market, there has not been a large-scale exodus of MNCs from Russia. For multinational firms, Russia’s attractiveness lies primarily in the size and sophistication of its market.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Tweet This Post Tagged as: Leadership , Social Media { 10 comments… read them below or add one } Brandon Cox January 24, 2010 at 10:21 pm It’s funny to me how boardrooms are now addressing a subject that grassroots marketers and small business owners have adopted ahead of time. Popularity: 8% [ ? Two points I would add.

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Media Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Blog 305

Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

​ For example, the job function I have now, digital marketing , didn’t exist when I left college, and had I focused on other areas without adapting as my career progressed, I might’ve missed my calling in digital marketing. However, it's also the MOST CRITICAL skill in senior management and leadership positions.

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Career Advice Succession Learning-by-Doing 74

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2012

In sharp contrast to Nokia's approach, Apple offered developers a uniform development environment and a direct path to market. Rushing your innovation to market before your co-innovators are ready can result in a costly delay at the starting line. Are You Targeting a Phantom Market? Apple learned from Nokia's mistake.

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Innovation Supply Chain Telecommunications Core Competence 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. This is where the leadership principle of authenticity comes in. Complexity turns people inward and distorts information flow, slowing the pace of decision-making down and making the decisions themselves increasingly incoherent.

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