Melissa Agnes
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Image: Nestor Rizhniak | Shutterstock. I was recently asked the following question by a professional who follows my work: Does my organization need to be crisis ready even though we aren’t a huge brand? This is an important question, as it often leads to push-back from management when those who know the organization isn’t crisis ready attempt to gain the necessary buy-in to become crisis ready.
Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
This Inside the Mind of the CEO interview features Shin Sakane, the chief executive of a Japanese company developing the Laundroid, a clothes-folding robot. For Sakane, of Japan's Seven Dreamers Laboratories, the key to innovation is finding a difficult but satisfying "theme.
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Consultants' Consultant
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Consultants Consultant: Story is an integral part of the process of enchanting, beguiling and well, lying. I don’t want you to lie. If you want, however, to make people listen to your point of view, the enchanting and beguiling part could be useful. Read the post here. In this podcast from Masters of Scale the founder of […]. The post Story works appeared first on Consultants' Consultant.
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The Vice President of Human Resources called. “I need to create a Strategic Workforce Plan for our company, get our leadership team on-board, teach all managers how to do this, and then implement this thing. How do I create this so it makes sense and doesn’t alienate everyone in the process?” That’s a great question, because the key issue is not “How do I do this?
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Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
The first time I met Catherine Hoke, she changed my life. That's what she does at Defy. She changes lives. After more than a year of persistent nudging, I was finally able to persuade her to share her story and her wisdom in a new book. I'm thrilled that it came out this morning. Defy works with men and women who were formerly incarcerated. They work with business leaders who are used to being treated with respect and privilege.
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Management and IT Consulting
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Part 2 in a two part blog series about what Consulting Firms should consider when selecting an ERP system.
Peter Stark
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Strategic planning is a vital part of every successful organization. Yet, at times strategic planning can seem daunting, time consuming and fraught with disagreements or even come to an impasse. Frequently our clients tell us they avoid strategic planning for the following reasons: A lack of clarity regarding the organization’s vision. A lack of agreement about the organization’s target market.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Daniel Day/Getty Images. “Sometimes, when I sit in meetings, especially ones in which people don’t seem engaged, I calculate the cost in staff time. I’ve estimated that one standard weekly meeting in my bureau—50 people sitting in a cookie-cutter conference room, looking both bored and anxious—costs around $177,000 annually, and surely this scenario occurs throughout the [organization] hundreds of times a day.
MBO Partners
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Once you've decided to team up with another independent professional, follow these three tips to build a successful working relationship.
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
steven moore for hbr. On February 13, 2018, the New York Times reported that Uber is planning an IPO. Uber’s value is estimated between $48 and $70 billion, despite reporting losses over the last two years. Twitter reported a loss of $79 million before its IPO, yet it commanded a valuation of $24 billion on its IPO date in 2013. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.
Seth Godin Blog
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Most of what we do at work all day is one of these three. Fun: It's engaging, it gives us satisfaction, people smile. Urgent: Someone else (or perhaps we) decided that this paper is on fire and it has to be extinguished before anything else happens. Fear-based: Most common of all, the things we do to protect ourselves from the fear we'd have to sit with if we didn't do them.
1 to 1
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Avnet’s Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Sellers captured the attention of a packed crowd at the recent Leadscon conference as he harkened back to the 1947 jewelry campaign, “A Diamond is Forever,” coined by De Beers’ Mary Gerety. The simple but catchy phrase reinvented what symbolized love with a simple emotional concept, Sellers explained, adding that the best brands own a simple message that breaks through the clutter.
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
How to build up your portfolio, keep your momentum going, and find the critical work-life balance. Description: On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines.
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Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Andrea Lardani/EyeEm/Getty Images. “We learned to take the long view, mostly because we didn’t have any other choice,” says Kate, now in her sixties and busy investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs. “Both sticking to our full-time corporate jobs or one of us becoming a full-time parent weren’t attractive options to us.
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
On this episode, I’m talking with Emma Sharley, an experienced and very successful brand and marketing consultant in Australia. She works with retail, technology, and lifestyle client companies on setting up market and brand strategies, brand positioning, transitioning markets, and marketing new products lines. She also has a complementary start-up in the retail technology sector called ShopYou, which she co-founded in 2016.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
John Kuczala/Getty Images. Employers are continually upping the ante on academic credentials. Nearly a third of jobs that once required only a high-school diploma now demand a four-year college degree, while one in four jobs that used to require a bachelor’s degree now require a master’s degree. Meanwhile, 75% of Americans believe that higher education is unaffordable and out of reach.
The Fearless Marketer
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
I really admire successful people. And over the years, I’ve studied many of them, read their biographies and books and tried to emulate their strategies. These books have helped me, but it wasn’t their strategies that gave me the most valuable insights. I discovered the one thing all successful people have in common: a trait that all of them have practiced without exception: They try new things.
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
Harvard Business
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
As biotech companies race toward the opportunities in Japan, no life sciences sector has received more attention, government support, and regulatory reform than the important field of regenerative medicine. Regeneratives are pharmaceutical cell therapy products that replace or restore cells and tissues lost to disease or aging. Some regenerative medicines stimulate our bodies to regrow or repair, so the field can include the use of stem cells for tissue engineering.
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