article thumbnail

Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

o Make sure your position has P&L responsibility. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this. Create visibility and credibility for yourself in the organization. o Take on high profile projects. Identify your value proposition. What do you bring to the table? o Build and leverage these relationships.

article thumbnail

Why Great Brands Lose Their Way

In the CEO Afterlife

I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks. This top management ethic is essential to brand resilience. Wouldn’t you expect greater care in stewarding brand presence, personality, positioning, single-mindedness, and strategic consistency?

Brand 260
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Team 52
article thumbnail

Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

In a departure from GE’s traditional control systems, the Center was not set up as its own business unit with its own P&L, but rather was funded by a $1 billion investment by Jeff Immelt and became part of GE Global Research. The next question was where to establish the software center. She told me how difficult it was.