Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

” Whether in marketing or sales, it often feels like jobs are contingent on external circumstances, the whims of executives, strategic pivots, and shareholder demands. ” “We have so much to learn from sports culture”, Bunge continued. He will always know how he performs.

Sports 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2017

When Doug took over as CEO of Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the company had just lost half its market value, sales were declining, and the organization was reeling from a series of layoffs. These expectation-setting actions provided a public platform to build a performance-oriented culture and were crucial in transforming the culture.

Turnaround 29

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MishTalk

MAY 21, 2014

I did not like the cultural change so I left and became an independent consultant. I was on a project at US Bank in Minneapolis involving a merger or sale of a Piper Jeffrey trading system. I met Pater under a different name on Silicon Investor in 2001. I have been through more bank mergers than one could imagine.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2016

This was the headquarters of Campbell Soup Company when one of us, Doug Conant, took the reins as CEO in 2001. Contrary to popular belief, cultivating a high-trust culture is not a “soft” skill — it’s a hard necessity. This clear manifestation of respect powers huge inflections in organizational culture.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

When Enron, one of the world’s largest energy companies, collapsed in 2001, it sent shock waves through the corporate world. Each person played the role of a sales manager and answered a series of questions about the business they “worked” for.

Ethics 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.

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Seth Godin Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Lucky for me, the world cooperated and our entire culture shifted from one based on long-term affilitations (you know, ''jobs'') to projects. Using the 80/20 rule as a guide, I realized that the top 30 titles probably accounted for more than 95% of their sales. But projects, one after the other, mark my career.

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007.

Education 29

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

” For example, productivity has grown dramatically in the retail sector since 1990; inflation-adjusted sales per employee have grown by roughly 50%. Lakhani then provided the dates at which Nokia had offered those features: an app store in 2001 , a touch screen in 2002 , a web browser in 2006. Why, then, did Apple prevail?

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