Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

In the old days, selling your product or service consisted of developing the item, selecting a market and screaming your message as loud and often as you could. Releasing a new product that has a flaw? If you do participate in the mass dialog, you have the ability to: Learn and grow – improving your products and services.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 19, 2013

Before social media, traditional marketing roles emphasized push responsibilities. Most marketers focused on advertising, promotions and creating awareness through disruption of unrelated content. With the emergence of social media technologies , this responsibility shifts from mostly push to mostly pull (inbound) marketing.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 22, 2012

Let’s look at an example of someone who views sales as their responsibility, regardless of formal role: I learned a long time ago, unless I wanted a monologue about how amazing GM products are, I better not mention any problems with my vehicles in front of Eric. Improved Morale : The more you sell, the more market share you create.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Our world is saturated with advertising, marketing and branding, but are you missing the big picture? Take this further than retail and physical products. Do your followers recognize you as a leader or a manager? A servant leader or a narcissistic one? Logos, Brands, Slogans. An innovator or a maintainer?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2015

Our world is saturated with advertising, marketing and branding, but are you missing the big picture? Take this further than retail and physical products. Do your followers recognize you as a leader or a manager? A servant leader or a narcissistic one? Logos, Brands, Slogans. An innovator or a maintainer?

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

In the training, point out the basics, such as: Relevant social media posts on your company, brand, products and services. These are often found in Support, Marketing and Human Resource departments. On the other hand, what if a marketing campaign starts to go viral on social media channels? Include this in any new hire program.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Nobody knows what it means to be excited about the products and services. Or, what if you talk about the positive attributes of your products rather than focusing only on the negative? My boss is a jerk and our product is terrible. If Negative Ned were all Irene heard, she’d not likely by the product.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Backtabbing has become an art and nobody knows what it means to be excited about the products and services anymore. Or, what if you taked about the positive attributes of your products rather than focusing only on the negative? My boss is a jerk and our product is terrible. Increaed budgets drive further benefits and marketing.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Not only does this broaden the range of successful results, but it enables quicker decisions and buy-in – not to mentiontruly offer a Servant Leader, win/win communication. no bias) and Servant Leadership. Instead of seeking prospects for an appointment to pitch new products (i.e.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 17, 2013

In an evolving digital work place, it is critical for leaders to think of their products, services and leadership in terms of SoCoLoMo. The Digital Marketer: Benchmark & Trends Report 2012. Why is SoCoLoMo important? Here are some statistics to consider: . HubSpot: 9/21/2012 post of the same name.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

A leader’s greatest responsibility is not for his/her own glory, but it is for the well being of those whose care has been entrusted to them. A warrior’s heart, and the spirit of a servant leader have served my family well in both business and life in general.

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Modern Servant Leader

MAY 15, 2012

The company posted media of customer’s blasting the quality of their product. Domino's Pizza customer blasts the product in a focus group and praises the final result. Because they care enough to serve first though, their customers are huge fans, that double as the company’s “free” marketing force.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 3, 2012

In this series of traditional and social media marketing messages, Domino’s Pizza confessed to poor quality and said they would change. Support your audience through encouragement – especially when your product or services are involved. My favorite Sports store, Gazelle Sports , does a great job at this.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

But all too often, the long lag time between recognizing the need for a new solution and actually purchasing and implementing it leads to lost sales, lost opportunities, and lost productivity. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2016

In 1979 I became Rookie (stockbroker) of the Year at Merrill Lynch with 210 accounts (the market was 777). Marketers currently use the term Buyer Persona to denote ‘influencers’ who will enable a sale. This ignores most of the early decisions buyers make and keeps marketing from entering effectively much earlier.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Part II, if a leader is able to have the tough conversation, is to have it with the poise and caring that allows everyone to walk away understanding why the conversation was necessary. The Servant Leader by: James Autry You must give more to your culture than you take from it. Leaders are learners.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 31, 2010

and Gretchen Johnson of Virtual Wordplay Marketing Communications for a few years, a caring and supportive group of individuals who have helped each other without reservation to be successful in business and in life. He was, and still is, my Myers-Briggs Type Indicator mentor as I was learning my way around that instrument.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In the public arena, we vote for our leaders (this may provide the most obvious connection to our responsibility for bad leadership): In this case, we might ignore bad past behavior before we cast our vote. We may be snowed by the public relations machine that “markets” a poor leader. Worse yet, we may not vote for anyone.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 20, 2010

It only matters that they possess the requisite skills for the job, and that they are willing to apply those skills for the benefit of those they lead.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Sales, marketing, and social marketing attempt to place solutions and create relationships by supplying great content, discovering likely prospects, and creating trust. Unfortunately sellers end up closing a small fraction – less than 5% – of those they reach, and marketers and social end up closing even less.

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