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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Companies now understand the impact of diversifying their talent pool, especially in leadership roles. o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. o Develop your subject matter expertise through social media, community organizations and board positions. They need to advocate for an advocate or sponsor.

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shorts.005 | Cycle of Success Spiral

LDRLB

If you expect your employees to provide impressive customer service without providing them the resources they need to make it happen (training, technology, autonomy) you are living in la-la land. Bret blogs about leadership, followership, and social media at his website Positive Organizational Behavior. Simmons, Ph.D.

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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

high technology). CEOs could enlist individuals who posses these traits for their top management teams and could give them prominent roles in specific strategic domains…Venture capitalists could use these personality measurements in predicting the success of SMEs operating in dynamic industries and thus, in making investment decisions (p.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Coca-Cola recently reshuffled its leadership team to focus on growth, innovation, and digital. L’Oréal has made a strategic investment in Founders Factory , a digital startup accelerator. “A clear, easy-to-memorize digital group strategy is now vocally championed by leadership across the company,” Rochet says.

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What A.G. Lafley's Return Means for P&G

Harvard Business Review

She holds the Ernest L. She is also Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. In her latest book, SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good , she analyzed how P&G (among other companies) achieved long-term performance. But note how P&G did it.

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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. They endorse a whack of dough into media and they continue to extend brand names into other categories, but they are falling short in spearheading brand equity growth. Wouldn’t you expect more innovation?

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Why Your Company Should Use the Kickstarter Model to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Impulse patronage" looks and feels like impossibility to anyone who isn''t a manager with a cash-flow-positive P&L and the courage to take a chance. Moreover, funding for innovation overwhelmingly comes from "budgets" rather than any discretionary funds held by individuals or small teams. Perhaps it should be.