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Why Great Brands Lose Their Way

In the CEO Afterlife

Never in the history of marketing has there been so much talk about branding. The conversation in the world of branding is well beyond product and service brand discussion by marketers and ad agencies. I remain impressed with the ongoing success of P&G, L’Oreal, Nike, Whole Foods, Pernod Ricard, Apple, and Starbucks.

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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.

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Beauty Marketers: Best in Class | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

Beauty Marketers: Best in Class. by John • August 15, 2011 • Branding , Marketing • 0 Comments. The piece described a passionate marketing company who has believed in the power of advertising and branding for most of its 100 years. well, the marketer better be a disciple of the Church of Brand. Leadership.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly. It has to be the responsibility of every single department: human resources, training, marketing, support, sales, IT, finance, operations and, most importantly, leadership. Traditional branding is an old paradigm.

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Even “bad” cultures get some things right

Surviving Leadership

The CFO update in particular was excellent – we learned how the company measured financial success, how to read a basic P&L, and what variable costs employees could help control in their jobs. Lesson: You want employees to learn how a business makes, saves, and spends money?

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

Ask Atma

E.g. take a team of developers to tour an abattoir, take the human resource team to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt, or take legal on an outing to a flower show. The more trust that exists between players, the more efficiently the system, market, or organization will work. Nash Equilibrium, Pareto Principle). ISBN 0262133849.

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It's Harder than Ever to Be a Senior Executive

Harvard Business Review

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. The CIO has to know what's going on in finance and marketing, for instance, and P&L experience is important even for support functions like human resources.