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Leadership Lessons from the Navy

Skip Prichard

A couple of years ago, my wife and I were traveling in Europe and visited a close personal friend, Rick, who was employed as a public affairs officer on a U.S. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. military base.

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There Are 4 Futures for CMOs (Some Better Than Others)

Harvard Business Review

At Airbnb, CMO Jonathan Mildenhall is driving the company’s evolution to an end-to-end travel brand by reinventing “ experiential marketing.” Sometimes it’s because CEOs want their CMOs to drive growth and transform the experience, but don’t give them the mandate, resources, or span of control to do so.

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