Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Squeezing another penny out of costs, getting product to market a few weeks earlier, responding to customers’ inquiries a little bit faster, ratcheting quality up one more notch, capturing another point of market share–those are the obsessions of managers today.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 2, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 10 Tips For Holiday Party Etiquette. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And you have to go to your office holiday party. Wear that snazzy tie or that elegant scarf.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Where others become disheartened by failure, leaders use it to fuel their motivation. Steve Jobs is a great (perhaps the best) example of understanding your markets. Henry Ford became the subject matter expert not just in cars, but in getting cars to market at a low-enough price that consumers could afford to buy his products.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works! Not necessarily.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

I spoke with Nick about their research and their book, WILD THINKING: 25 Unconventional Ideas To Grow Your Brand and Your Business. What is wild thinking? Wild thinking is what happens when you pose 25 thought-provoking questions to 25 intelligent, creative leaders in organizations as diverse as Google, Gap, Time Out and Twinings.

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Wilde Brand Open-book Creativity 66

Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

At ABC Corp, the key behaviors identified are for marketing to solicit ideas from new sources, and to use the new criteria for vetting ideas. Motivation Underlying the behaviors of individuals is the collective set of conditions that either encourage or discourage people from doing them.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! gives you the tools to take an eclectic approach to your marketing, and pick the best, most wildly successful marketing methods – traditional, online, or both — to win at achieving your marketing goals. Do what works!

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Wilde Real Estate Discount Advertising 50

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

On your road to success (whether it be to increase profits, become an industry leader, capture more market share, etc.), Use The Zig Zag Principle to assess your resources, use them to their fullest, and keep yourself and your team motivated – all while living a life of balance. Rich has founded or co-founded 32 businesses.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Media momentum is much like a wild fire—the power of one well-placed match can ignite dramatic pyrotechnics! Base marketing initiatives on shared values and multiple-agendas. Their advice can be invaluable.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago.

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Chemicals Creativity Micromanagement Wilde 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2014

Look at DaVita, a market leader in providing dialysis treatments for kidney patients. Shareholders may care about financial performance, but employees are more often motivated by the impact their organization has on the world around them. Managing people Motivation' How powerful is engagement?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2014

Academic studies are showing that the peer effect works in motivating people to save more. Here’s what you might see on (what you’d hope is) a typical week: Competing wearables offer a variety of peer data, differentiating themselves from the mechanical activity trackers and pedometers that have long been on the market.

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Discount Energy Motivation Wilde 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

Style one: Market-driven CMOs who capitalize on the voice of customers. Market-driven CMOs are great listeners. Fara Howard , VP of global marketing for the shoe and apparel firm Vans, describes her brand as “an intuitive brand that leads with its heart.” Market driven CMOs listen to customers. By listening.

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Leadership Styles Leadership Brand Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2018

It’s important to respect the fact that you haven’t cornered the market on drowning in work — other people may be swamped too. One of the most important motivators for helpers is the potential to feel effective. One of the most important motivators for helpers is the potential to feel effective. Say Thank You.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2018

Consider this example: When The Interpublic Group (IPG) merged the direct-marketing company Draft with the ad-agency Foote Cone & Belding (FCB) to become one agency in 2006, “it was immediately apparent that the cultures of the two agencies were wildly different,” shared Marty Stock, then head of Coors advertising at FCB.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 31, 2016

In addition, highly successful companies — those who are leaders in their market and have surpassed revenue expectations — are the most likely to adopt this compensation policy. Start with market rate. Begin with a good, data-informed baseline of what each employee is worth on the current talent market.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2014

This approach to entrepreneurship increases your market knowledge: as a potential user, you know the problem, how you’re currently trying to solve it, and what dimensions of performance matter. And you can use this knowledge to avoid much of the market risk in building a new product. Oculus, of course, was wildly successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Inequality, in the broadest sense, is precisely, and perhaps paradoxically, what entrepreneurship is all about: entrepreneurs use their wit and grit to burst into new markets and generate extraordinary wealth, sometimes very quickly, more often over decades. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Characterizations of what happened in the early years of PARC (founded in 1970) range from strategic fumbles to "wild geysers of creative energy" perfectly appropriate to early-stage invention , but those early years didn't yield the stream of profitable innovations that Xerox had imagined. and then letting most of it slip away.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 22, 2018

The people who have created new e-commerce enterprises ask the same questions raised by slick and motivational articles about success, instead of clarifying their vision. Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz Brendan Wilde of Discountdomains.co.nz Solution: Look for a web development contractor with extensive expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

Consider a real example: Not long after a company created an online suggestion box on its new intranet, with all the bells and whistles of the latest social-media technologies, an executive lamented: “All we get are a bunch of complaints and impossibly wild ideas that we couldn’t follow up on in a million years.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

Use that information to pinpoint what tasks make you feel motivated and absorbed. She knew she’d like to add more marketing tasks to her role because she really enjoyed them, but she didn’t know how to go about it. ” She took over the launch of the temporary marketing site, and really enjoyed the experience.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If you're a product guru, maybe you need a business development or sales-oriented leader to get your vision to market. Even after all the many other pieces of the puzzle come together, it is essential that your partner's main motivations for joining your venture include a passion for the project you are pursuing.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

This has been an explosive summer — markets in turmoil, cities in flames, politics in meltdown. Who markets each event? A carefully designed "architecture of participation" that blends wild-eyed creativity with the spirit of unblinking competition. Who gets to perform? Who performs in which venue?

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Creativity Participative Audience Incubator 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

For Alexis Products to survive, Steph needed to either come up with another hit — quickly — or formulate a cohesive strategy to take on the language-learning market as a serious competitor. But lately her marketing chief, Gregoire Ferron, had been raising difficult questions about what that duality meant for Alexis Products.

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Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing. The second principle is working out or the dirty word exercise. Keep moving!

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

By analyzing the true motives for networking (yours and other people’s), one can avoid hurt feelings and letdowns. The longer they network, the better they get at niche marketing. Inevitably, when high-level forums are organized, the juniors, mid-managers and self-marketers infiltrate and take over… which chases us away.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Moreover, they challenge, excite, comfort, and motivate. The market doesn't care how leaders get results as long as they are achieved legally. The best leaders and artists give us perspective on our social condition (good or bad) and greater appreciation of our world, ourselves, and our choices.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Product and package designers can see how people open, store, and use their purchases “in the wild.” Marketers and innovation specialists can immerse themselves in the sights, sounds, and emotions of consumers’ daily lives, surfacing opportunities to make their products and services more emotionally resonant and durable.

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Document Marketing Learning-by-Doing Travel 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

The coach is only concerned with the CEO''s wild success as the leader of the company. Comparatively, there''s a reluctance to be coached on so-called "soft skills" like motivation, compassion, and persuasion. Is there a way to be transparent about a CEO being coached without causing shareholder and market panic?

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CEO Survey Charan Welch 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

Corporate executives spent months trying to nail down a new market strategy. Narrowed focus allows clearer line of sight between what workers do every day and the market performance of the organization. You don’t have to be a wildly successful organization, rolling in cash, to make work more meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2011

It's a truly open market of ideas. I watched the streams of traffic and was amazed to see everyone's typical Twitter motives (branding, self promotion) pushed aside. One thing is certain: This is an opportunity to motivate employees and to add purpose to their work day in a way that's unmatched historically. Brevity reigns.

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