Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Findings from Deloitte Consulting , as highlighted in its infographic advertisement in the March 2014 issue of The Atlantic magazine caught my attention today. Revenue Before Cost - Higher revenue is worth more than lower cost. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management'

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15Five

JULY 18, 2019

While increasing revenue, adding MQLs, or improving customer NPS are all important places to focus, most people are driven by impact, not numbers. They set goals that are focused purely on quantity-based metrics or heavily skewed towards only tracking revenue. But goal-setting should be a balanced and nuanced process.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 27, 2014

Findings from Deloitte Consulting , as highlighted in its infographic advertisement in the March 2014 issue of The Atlantic magazine caught my attention the other day. Revenue Before Cost - Higher revenue is worth more than lower cost. Eric Jacobson on Leadership and Management Exceptional Companies Leadership Sales'

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15Five

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

HR leaders and managers need a clear understanding of their high and low performers in order to improve team performance and make fair and objective talent decisions. 15Five’s Talent Matrix is a flexible performance framework that enables HR leaders and managers at companies of any size to better understand their talent.

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15Five

MAY 10, 2018

When companies build an employee engagement program from the outside in, without understanding what employees or managers want or ensuring the program is flexible, it will not gain traction, Cassie added. And managers may need to develop additional skills to help them do that, she added. Developing employees takes work on both sides.

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15Five

APRIL 18, 2018

Over the last several years a performance management revolution has taken place, and businesses are now focusing more on the growth and wellbeing of their employees. There’s a common saying in the business world: People don’t leave their jobs, they leave their managers. This is the danger zone for managing talent.

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Peter Winick

AUGUST 18, 2022

Today, I’m speaking with Gene Rice, the Founder and CEO of Rice Cohen International, which provides executive search and consulting services to a premier list of global clients across the Learning & Development, Ed Tech, and Management Consulting fields. I think it’s unusual and maybe I’m wrong.

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15Five

JUNE 27, 2019

Introducing, the Best-Self Management Podcast! Best-Self Management is a journey of self discovery and ultimately, transformation for everyone in business, from CEOs to managers, and people working their first jobs. We’re now in a high growth phase, hitting some pretty big revenue milestones, and recognized by Inc.

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15Five

DECEMBER 20, 2017

While some businesses focus solely on the revenue side of things, they fail to realize that people are the bottom line. The Ubiquity team find ways to hack the business to be happier or to increase revenue. A great product or business model will only get you so far.

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Peter Winick

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

And so we spent a lot of time and effort evangelizing this point of view, meaning we would write thought leadership articles for Forbes and Fortune magazine and other publications as well, that were around the benefits of secure cloud collaboration. They would be they weren’t even talking about our product or our company.

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Zenefits

AUGUST 25, 2022

You need HR to help with hiring, compliance, and employee management. Or, choose certain responsibilities for HR to manage. Enter the business manager. Today, many companies hire a business manager to drive the HR team to success. Managers help companies save on hiring, recruiting, onboarding, and more.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 21, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. Your employees need to know about the health of your company or organization. Or, theyll hear it second-hand.

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Peter Winick

MARCH 6, 2023

You remember those like old inserts in or supplements in magazines that were usually. The old media business model began to come under pressure, right, because classified ads were being disrupted by Craigslist and then Google and basically all the old like sources of revenue for traditional media began to be taken away.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 26, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Eric Jacobson On Management And Leadership Welcome! This blogs tips and ideas are perfect for managers and leaders of all types of small to large businesses and nonprofit organizations. big and small improvements, new ideas and suggestions for innovation.) Love the Blue Shirt Nation idea.

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15Five

AUGUST 2, 2019

While increasing revenue, adding MQLs, or improving customer NPS are. They set goals that are focused purely on quantity-based metrics or heavily skewed towards only tracking revenue. For example, if through hard work and substantial luck your company achieves an ambitious revenue goal. Increase code coverage to 90%. •

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Walk Me

MAY 8, 2023

This spending in strategic human resources management is a wise investment. Training is about getting job-specific skills – in the latest ERP tool, new compliance issues, or project management. However, for an effective learning culture, line Managers and CEOs must all be ready to support investment in training.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Management knows it and so does Wall Street: The year-to-year viability of a company depends on its ability to innovate. Yet many companies have not yet learned to manage innovation strategically. One tool we've developed to help companies manage their innovation portfolio is the Innovation Ambition Matrix (see the chart below).

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Graduate schools of business, back when they were fewer, favored applicants with work experience, and much of that experience had been won on the front lines of revenue generation. In seeking a master's degree, these go-getters wanted to acquire the general management skills their day-to-day jobs didn't teach.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2012

The committee organizing the London 2012 Olympic Games faced an extraordinary business challenge: How to price 8 million tickets in a way that allows equitable access to 26 sporting events, meets revenue and attendance targets, and adheres to the explicit social objective of making the Olympiad "Everybody's Games.".

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If any given news outlet ran a story, it had the same chance as each of its competitors of earning ad revenue from Google links. Your chance of a Google News link (and the associated revenue) would be the same as others who re-published your story. Thats the theory, but there are some issues with Googles plan.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Shrinking revenues, customers who pirate (and actively distribute) products, dizzying technology change, new competitors, defecting advertisers, plummeting discretionary consumer spending — almost everything that could go wrong for music, magazine publishing, radio, newspapers, and broadcast television has gone wrong in the last fifteen years.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Once wholly in the hands of managers (the "visible hands" chronicled by industrial age historian Alfred Chandler), technology innovation used to begin with a company's commitment of resources to R&D and patent protection. For example, Texas Instruments' 1990 revenues from patents exceeded its manufacturing revenues.)

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In 2017, CIO magazine reported that around one-third of all customer relationship management (CRM) projects fail. Front-line sales professionals and managers rarely find the majority of these capabilities useful in winning more business for the company. Managers provide coaching to improve, not reporting to inspect.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2012

The first-ever ranking of Indian CEOs based on the long-term shareholder returns they generate (available here and published in Business Today , an Indian business magazine) provides an interesting answer. Who are the best-performing CEOs in India? Our top ranker.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Cross-functionalizing the marketing mix to drive incremental revenue generation opportunities" isnt reflection (and heaven knows few breakthroughs ever lie down that path ). Conversely, "we will reduce the number of thirsty people in the world" is a reflective statement — simple, resonant, meaningful.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Bank boards need simple and commonsense — but powerful — tools to cut through the complexity and push management behavior in the direction of responsible risk taking. Here is one that could help a lot: Boards should not judge managers (just) by earnings. That added penny on the dollar falls directly to the bottom line.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work. Managing Yourself Book. Your manager will perceive you as more productive. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Perhaps most notable was a story in Life magazine that included a photo of a Pakistani child sewing Nike-branded soccer balls, titled “Six cents an hour.” Firms with a strong brand to protect are also often social innovators receptive to intrapreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Every manager can learn from the excellent The Invention of Difference by Jo and Binna Kandola, the 4-part series by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant in the New York Times, or the various articles that have appeared in this magazine, by Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb , Joan C. But managers generally don’t.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2012

While on the surface revenues remained strong, its rapport with customers and physicians was rapidly eroding, and its reputation was being bludgeoned by lawsuits and a national backlash against health maintenance organizations and managed care (which Aetna had championed). In the early 2000s Aetna was struggling mightily on all fronts.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2012

Vanity Fair 's Kurt Eichenwald takes a close look at what the magazine provocatively calls "Microsoft's lost decade" in a sprawling story this month. Well, chew on this: all of Microsoft's products put together can't beat the revenue generated by a single Apple product: the iPhone. WATER IS WET.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are countless podcasts available on relevant professional topics, from legal issues to project management to entrepreneurship to marketing. Do some pleasure reading – splurge on a magazine or a thriller at the airport newsstand (indeed, according to Airport Revenue News , the average passenger spends nearly $11 at the airport).

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2016

Amazon e-commerce revenue growth was 10 times Walmart’s last year in dollar terms, and 1.5 Newspaper, pay TV, magazine and other media companies that have been losing customers in droves to digital media firms like the Huffington Post or Netflix. times faster in percentage terms.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

The car service company just arranged low-cost financing to help add 100,000 cars to its fleet; revenues are growing by 20% monthly ; and New York Magazine proclaimed the company may be – one day – more valuable than Facebook. Uber has quickly become one of the hottest startups in the technology sector.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2018

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Here are just a few possible opportunities in some of the industries that will benefit the most: Entertainment : India’s entertainment industry produces the highest number of movies compared to any other country in the world, but rampant piracy has limited revenues to genuine producers.

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