CEO Blog

APRIL 26, 2011

On my flight yesterday I read a short book (and a longer one but that review can come later). I learned gorilla marketing. And I am sure the success I had at that gave me the confidence to start my technology distribution company as I was finishing my engineering degree. They were open 7 days per week.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 14, 2011

We did it because we knew we that we were ‘in the right,’ so to speak—that we had the skills, the knowledge, and the passion necessary for opening up an online retail business. Luck is only a part of the equation, though, as I would like to tell others who are also interested in trying their hand at opening online retail businesses.

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CO2

JANUARY 2, 2011

RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. I think it was the graphic design of the book that first caught my eye. I could see there was something new about this book and how the authors thought about business models.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Widget manufacturing companies team with retail management experts to open a string of widget stores. Hardware, software and component producers revolutionizing the next generation of technology.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

With rapid globalization and advent of technology, the rate of change in society and in organizations has just multiplied. market forces) and internal ones (e.g. Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 15 Key Lessons On Managing Change Change, they say, is the only constant. Remember what Charles Darwin said ?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

and Canada with extensive experience in emerging markets persevered to take a closer look. We almost immediately learned that Iran is an astoundingly lovely place, with very little of the deep poverty one sees intertwined into the societies of most emerging markets. We didn’t see a fraction of the religious tension we expected.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Any professional should have antennae open for business every time you answer the phone, e-mail, or walk out the door. By investigating resources MOST open to you, momentum increases. Evaluate organizations online: their mission, major products/markets, history, and biographies of key participants. Rehearse your pitch.

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Management Craft

JUNE 7, 2012

Liz has put together a super interesting book called Women, Motorcycles and the Road to Empowerment that includes a collection of inspiring pieces from dozens of hip motorcycle chicks. This can be a life-long lesson, especially in our multi-cultural, multi-technology and multi-generational settings. by Liz Jansen. Decision Making.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2011

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. The book provides a social assessment for leaders, managers and employees to scientifically evaluate your individual social skills and competencies. Still skeptical?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

They all take advantage of four technologies that once were scarce and expensive but are now plentiful and cheap. These technologies can be combined in numerous ways, and we are just starting to see companies really taking advantage of the possibilities. As the member travels around, the car's location is tracked via GPS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

” Judging by the headlines and opening lines of recent articles and business books, digital is about to disrupt your industry and you with it – unless you act now (and buy the book). Many business models that make extensive use of digital technology have network-type properties.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

When companies expand into foreign markets, they need to gain the trust of local business partners and prospective customers in order to succeed. Both of these approaches, however, are time-intensive, requiring executives to spend weeks or months in foreign markets. William Andrew/Getty Images. A New Type of Local Partner.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2016

Companies can also rent their business applications (for accounting and finance, human resource management, marketing and sales, collaboration, project management, and so forth) on-demand from companies like Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Workday, Hubspot, Yammer, Dropbox, Basecamp and others. Need travel information or services?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

We saw what it's like to have as many hotels under construction as open; to hire 20,000 associates in one year; to watch consumers use smartphones to book same-day hotel rooms. All this drove home the point that we need to be more agile in extreme-growth markets. Friday is a "weekend" here and Sunday is a "weekday."

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2015

Just as the World Wide Web opened up the internet’s potential for use by billions, APIs — specifications or protocols for how to exchange information or request online services from an organization — are allowing companies to grow businesses at unprecedented rates by sharing services with external firms.

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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. It’s harder when I travel, but I’m getting creative when I have to dine out, and I know what foods are good for me, and which ones I need to avoid. I read 5-10 books every month and one of these books are just for fun.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Did you know that the average American only reads one book a year? Contrast this with the fact that CEOs of Fortune 500 companies read an average of four to five books a month. Even more impressive is that some of the most successful leaders throughout history were known to read one book every single day.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2014

New evidence shows how a strong customer culture drives future business performance and supports market strategies. Will the company lead the market with new services before customers recognize their own changing needs? Will the company lead the market with new services before customers recognize their own changing needs?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2014

First, in a world in which labor markets are fluid, leaders must inspire and impart purpose. And at Red Hat , where one of us is CEO, the organization’s mission is a powerful catalyst in communities of customers, contributors, and partners for creating technology the open source way. This requires intensive, one-on-one work.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly. The truth is that there are many things that define our career success , depending on what we value: Money Family Friends Flexibility Health Time Travel Etc.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I wrote a case study about this for my book and it ended up on the cutting room floor, but it's still a fascinating story and one that has valuable lessons for today. In the 1950's, the American market was quite small and dominated by entrenched players such as Harley Davidson, Indian, and imports like Triumph and Moto Guzzi.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Am I open to exploring new industries and roles, or do I want to stick to this specific job description? An honest open review of your abilities and interests can thus help you assess what career goals may be right for you. For example, a marketing professional might benefit from courses in psychology 2.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Sebastian and his partner Yulia Kryazheva travelled to many of the company’s locations worldwide (85+) to talk to stakeholders involved in the mesh on which the company is thriving. Step 1: Opening up. In return, they were able to get rid of their marketing department. This is a fabulous story - let's make it work here!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

But I''ve just finished work on a new book with Paul Nunes on the new age of disruptive innovation (based on our March 2013 HBR article, " Big Bang Disruption "). The earlier essay, "The Nature of the Firm," is justly famous for its introduction to economic literature of the concept of market friction, or what Coase called "transaction costs."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unexpected changes in technology, customer preferences, and regulation can disrupt even the best-run operation. Nevertheless, in researching my book, Mapping Innovation , I found that these exploratory efforts provide excellent ROI over the long term. In my book I offer an Innovation Matrix, which I’ve described previously.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Here’s a quick look at what I found: Rohit Bhargava, marketer, professor and author of Likeonomics , recently issued his report: 15 Marketing Trends In 2013 And How Your Business Can Use Them. Hanna Rosin writes in her book “ The End of Men and the Rise of Women ” that women are no longer just catching up to men.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Robert Pozen knows a little something about thriving at the top — he’s the former chairman of MFS Investment Management, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, and the author of the book Extreme Productivity. As to meetings, I’ve really been clear in my book about what makes a good meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. Or that little book retailing site that opened its online door in 1995 and became the world’s largest online retailer. Who is that David to our Goliath?”.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The key is to look beyond just the obvious places like marketing. So when I asked Mark Krolick—managing director of marketing and product development at United Airlines—about the hypothesis that having more superconsumers as leaders or employees enhances business performance, he smiled. Sales & Marketing Adapted from.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Don’t assume that someone will read your bio, alight on something you’ve done, open a browser tab, Google that accomplishment, search through the results, and then read about it. While that might work in technology or the start-up world, it won’t read as professionally in more traditional industries.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 8, 2020

From food blogging, travel blogging, and book reviews to sharing pictures of events with friends, a personal website provides you with the means to share what you love online at little cost. With open-source content management tools like WordPress, you can model a good website without much difficulty. TMD Hosting.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

Uber Technologies , a pending class-action lawsuit by Uber drivers in California, which alleges that drivers are misclassified as independent contractors. booking fee (formerly a “safe rides” fee) off the top, plus their commission of at least 20% on the remaining $3.40. The first is O’Connor v.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It’s also important that you leave on good terms with your company and indicate if you are open to occasional projects and assignments — which is a good way to keep your hand in your profession. Don’t: Be secretive about your intentions to leave your job — share your plans with colleagues and let them know you’re open to new opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Best known as the technology behind bitcoin, blockchain enables a ledger of transactions to be shared across a network of participants.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

India’s digital infrastructure is coming to life, with a combination of policy and technological innovation having played an important role. One of us, Arvind Gupta, is head of technology for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP party, and has been for the past seven years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2017

The rise of the internet has opened up new possibilities for communicating, from emailing and blogging to mobile video chatting and exchanging GIFs over messaging apps. The study also found that consumers are more likely to call a business when making a high-value purchase in verticals such as auto, finance, or travel. Insight Center.

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