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Small Goes Big with the Right Product Idea… Be Intrapreneurial
By Peter Klinge, Jr. The right product idea(s) can transform any company, even in a mature one, into new exciting directions and possibilities. To be intrapreneurial is to reinvent and leverage your own ideas and to align an organization’s people … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Marketing, Client Case Studies, Consumer Marketing, Critical Thinking, Decision making, Management Leadership, Retail
Tagged branding, business, C-suite, CEO, consumer, critical questions, critical thinking, growth stage, planning, Retail, revenue, sales, strategy, teamwork
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Why Whole Foods is in a Pickle
Why Whole Foods is in a Pickle… Whole Foods finds itself in a situation common to businesses across wide ranging categories. The dilemma or pickle for Whole Foods in grocery speak isn’t unusual for large companies. Category leaders as they … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Marketing, CEO and C-suite, Client Case Studies, Consumer Marketing, Critical Thinking, Retail, Sales Management
Tagged brand, branding, business, C-suite, CEO, consumer, decision making, growth stage, marketing, mission, planning, Retail, revenue, sales, strategy, vision
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Entrepreneurs it’s Time to Grow Up… Scaling Up the Business
Building a business from scratch is tough. But how do you grow from a start up to scale a business to grow? The Life is Good company is a great example. Now a $100MM/year sales business. The Jacob brothers of … Continue reading
Posted in CEO and C-suite, communications, Critical Questions, Decision making, Management Leadership, Team Organizational Development
Tagged accountability, C-suite, CEO, growth stage, leadership, management, teamwork
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How to Focus on Your Best Customers
Focusing on your best customers is critically important. However, many companies do not do this. There’s a lot of emphasis in marketing and sales to acquire new customers. What businesses often fail to recognize is that the time, effort and … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Marketing, Client Case Studies, Consumer Marketing, Critical Questions, Management Leadership, Sales Management, Team Organizational Development
Tagged airline, business, consumer, databases, Delta, frequency, growth stage, monetary, profitability, recency, revenue, RFM, sales
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Intel Brand Platform Extends Technology Leadership
The Intel Brand platform extends the technology leadership for the company in a way that the technology alone can not. Intel cleverly introduced Intel Inside in the early 90’s as a differentiating communications and co-marketing program. This effectively promoted Intel’s … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Brand Marketing, CEO and C-suite, Client Case Studies, Global Business, Management Leadership, Technology
Tagged Advertising, Android, Apple, brains inside, brand, CEO, Chips, Computer Inside, engineering, globalization, Google, Google Glass, growth stage, Intel, Intel Inside, manufacturer, marketing, microprocessors, mission, MP3, Nexus, smartphones, strategy, tablets, vision
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How to Align ‘Why’ to Growth Outcomes
By Peter Klinge, Jr. of KLINGE associates The following outlines principles for how to Align the Why of your business to Growth Outcomes. Informed by experience this shows how to develop strategy and a plan that is aligned with a … Continue reading
Posted in CEO and C-suite, Interpersonal, Management Leadership, Sales Management, Team Organizational Development
Tagged accountability, C-suite, CEO, critical success factors, growth stage, leadership, management, planning, pragmatism, revenue, sales, strategy, teamwork, value proposition, vision
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Why Do You Need to Worry About Social Media Privacy with Google, FB, LinkedIn and Why Don’t These Companies Care if You Do?
Why do you need to worry about social media privacy with Google, FB, LinkedIn and why don’t these companies care if you do? You shared my personal photo with who on FB? Oh just 40,000 Twitter followers. Oh the Irony … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Brand Marketing, CEO and C-suite, Consumer Marketing, Global Business, Management Leadership, Sales Management, Social Media
Tagged Advertising, business, Facebook, Google, growth stage, LinkedIn, management, marketing, online, privacy, revenue, social media, Twitter
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How to Effectively Transition Leadership for Growth
Leadership transition of the CEO is hard and messy, but it’s possible to effect transition in meaningful, gratifying ways that build legacy companies for generations to come. The central issue appears to stem from alignment of the company’s products and … Continue reading
Posted in CEO and C-suite, Client Case Studies, Global Business, Management Leadership, Team Organizational Development
Tagged C-suite, CEO, Gerstner, growth stage, IBM, leadership, management, planning, strategy, vision
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Business Warfare: Mass, Superiority, Economy, Initiative, Simplicity
A dear friend and long time associate Brad Majors and I love history. We often talked about military history and the inevitable comparisons to sport, and the game of business. Warfare is an unfortunate part of human history. Nonetheless, when … Continue reading
Posted in Brand Marketing, Client Case Studies, Global Business, Management Leadership, Team Organizational Development
Tagged business, economy, growth stage, leadership, management, marketing, mission, strategy, warfare
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How to Build a Small Company… Don’t Sell too soon
Over the Memorial Weekend we ventured out to Eastern Utah to visit the famous dinosaur park. A remarkable site… Utah is filled with all kinds of wonders. People are familiar with the gorgeous national parks, skiing, and perhaps even recall … Continue reading
Posted in Client Case Studies, Management Leadership, Team Organizational Development
Tagged growth stage, revenue, start ups
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