Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 29, 2022

Today's Flashback: A look back to 2019. For 2019, that book is Paul Smith's, The 10 Stories Great Leaders Tell , released this past summer. Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This year’s batch of Super Bowl commercials was under-whelming. Even though CBS charged $175,000 a second, or $5.25 million for a 30 second spot. Even Steve Carrell couldn’t save Pepsi’s commercial this year. See,… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I’m keeping a gratitude journal until November 28, 2019. Every evening or morning I use a pen to express thanks for three things in a journal. 3 Lessons from the Gratitude Project #1.… … Continue reading →

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Leadership Development 189

Leadership Freak

MAY 22, 2019

Deadline is 5/26/2019)… Continue reading → NEW BOOK GIVEAWAY! Leave a comment on this guest post by Pamela McLean, PhD to become eligible to win one of twenty complimentary copies of, “Self as Coach, Self as Leader.”

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Leadership Development 189

Michael McKinney

MARCH 4, 2024

By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2019, Nadella started shifting his aim. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. The turnaround he engineered was nothing short of remarkable.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 13, 2019

It happened on March 6, 2019.* 32,294 is the number of points it took for LeBron James to pass Michael Jordan on the N.B.A.’s s top scorers list. Lebron is now #4 on the… Continue reading →

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Leadership Development 184

Help Scout Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2023

Our third annual employee survey shows where we’re starting to see positive change take place, as well as the challenges we still face. Read the full article

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Forbes Leadership

JULY 16, 2022

End of June 2022, a Panel of Independent International Experts (the Panel), consisting of three renowned international law experts, including Sonja Biserko, Marzuki Darusman and Stephen Rapp, launched their report on serious human rights violations against Muslims in India since 2019.

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Association Now Leadership

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In 2019, fears of a recession were swelling. It feels like a generation ago, but in late 2019 the emerging COVID-19 virus was hardly a blip on Americans’ radar. Another key tactic is board engagement, and that’s an area where there’s a difference between late 2019 and today. There are a couple of ways to read this data.

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Michael McKinney

DECEMBER 4, 2023

He is director of the CAA Group of Companies, an adjudicator with the Capital Markets Tribunal, and from 2015 to 2019 was a commissioner with the Ontario Securities Commission. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc., 30, 2023).

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Michael Hyatt

JUNE 12, 2023

In fact, in 2019, The Center for Economic and Policy Research released a study […] The post Why You Need an Unplugged Vacation appeared first on Full Focus. For those of you who said, “Vacation? What vacation?” you’re not alone. The adult population of the U.S. has some of the lowest amounts of vacation days in the world.

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CEO World

MAY 27, 2022

It was October 2019 and, as Chair of the Business Roundtable, the leader of the world’s most valuable bank, Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase, gathered almost 200 […]. At the end of the last decade, Jamie Dimon presented a commitment from leading American companies to focus upon stakeholder capitalism. What is that and is it real?

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AlignOrg

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Prior to her tenure at AlignOrg Solutions, Dr. Ellis was the managing director at the Performance Lab from 2019 until 2021. She also held significant roles at Allegion PLC, including director of change management and organization design consulting in 2019 and director of global learning, development and change between 2016 and 2019.

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Michael McKinney

JUNE 2, 2023

However, following several acquisitions in 2018 and 2019 and rapid growth during the pandemic, he defined a new set of goals that required a higher degree of coordination and centralization in his team. As Darrell explained: I am planning to centralize a few things.

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CEO World

MAY 27, 2022

She was named Startup CEO of the Year at the 2019 GeekWire Awards. Within six years, from launching a biotech company, raised over $400 million in capital, and developed therapeutical candidates for Alzheimer’s,Parkinson’s and other neurological indications. More recently, Kawas has co-founded the global equity […].

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Council, the consortium of all-female operators that’s been joining cap tables since early 2019, today announced their venture arm and its $5 million debut fund, The Council Fund.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 30, 2022

billion spent between 2008 and 2019 at art auctions, work produced by women accounted for only $4 billion, or around 2% of the total sales. Of the $196.6 The good news is that the tide may be turning, and the works by female artists are gaining more recognition and remuneration.

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Ed Batista

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Consequences of Repression of Emotion: Physical Health, Mental Health and General Well Being (Jainish Patel and Prittesh Patel, International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research, 2019). [5] 5] For more on these MESSy practices: Mindfulness. Don't Just Do Something, Sit There! Mindfulness for Busy People).

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Alison Green

AUGUST 9, 2024

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Get Lighthouse

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It’s even more amazing, because he said it in 2019, before COVID came along. — Andreas Klinger (@andreasklinger) July 1, 2019 Instead, most of the millions of remote workers work from home, a co-working space, or share a full-time office. In fact, now's the time to prepare for it.” And that’s for good reason.

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Michael McKinney

AUGUST 26, 2022

In 2019 he founded the ENTRE Institute to create a new generation of ENTREpreneurs. A FTER A DECADE of building multiple online businesses to over 8 figures and twice landing on the Inc. 5000, Jeff Lerner turned his focus to educating and inspiring entrepreneurs about the power of digital business.

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Forbes Leadership

MAY 25, 2022

Deel, a fintech startup founded by Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang in 2019, pioneered an innovative business model, which is completely changing how people will work. What we thought the future of work would be is happening right now.

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Forbes Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

In 2019, the Sorenson Impact Center partnered with Forbes to host the Forbes OZ 20, a national campaign highlighting impact-focused leaders in the Opportunity Zone space.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 23, 2024

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 25, 2022

To help struggling taxpayers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS is providing penalty relief to most people and businesses who filed certain 2019 or 2020 returns late.

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Forbes Leadership

AUGUST 25, 2022

There’s good news for executives in the findings, and also a big message of caution to those who want to return to the “normal” routine of 2019. The Human Workplace Index just published its one-year report.

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Growth Institute

MAY 20, 2022

By 2019, 32% of sales yielded wins, 34% were competitive losses, and 44% resulted in no decision. And I’ve noticed something that CSO Insights, which produces annual reports on sales enablement , has revealed as well: More and more sales are being lost not only to competition—but also to the customer’s lack of a decision.

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Forbes Leadership

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Inclusive-sizing brand, Universal Standard, was able to turn a 2019 operational crisis into a revenue-driving idea.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 16, 2024

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Manager 98

Alison Green

JUNE 10, 2022

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Forbes Leadership

JUNE 7, 2022

Redpanda (formerly Vectorized) was founded in 2019 by Columbian immigrant Alex Gallego. And though relatively new, the company is already helping an increasing number of companies shift to real-time data streaming—providing limitless processing of real-time and historical data through a single API.

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Alison Green

AUGUST 30, 2024

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 16, 2022

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Women’s health attracts only a minuscule percentage of all science funding – about 11% of all NIH funding in 2019. Repro Grants is a “fast grants” program, that awards $25,000 - $100,000 to ambitious research projects aiming to deepen our understanding of the female reproductive system.

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Alison Green

JULY 26, 2024

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Alison Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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Manager 104

Alison Green

JULY 19, 2024

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