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Asking for forgiveness

As a marketing leader, you’ve got to have a group of people on your team who you trust enough to do their own thing without asking you for permission. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains why it’s better to screw up and say I’m sorry.

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Building a team

Recruiting talent is not easy in today’s environment. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains how marketing leaders start to build a really effective team

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Starting a movement

As a marketer, there will be changes you want to see but you face challenges inspiring your colleagues. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, explains how marketing leaders inspire those changes through ‘starting a movement’…

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What does it mean to ‘Walk the Horse?’

As a marketer, you’ve got to drive change in your company. You cannot drive change by email. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains how marketing leaders use their time effectively to drive change.

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The heart or the head

Napoleon said, “A leader is a dealer in hope,” and as a marketer you’ve got to give hope. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains why it’s very important that every marketer has a story that they tell internally and that’s consistent.

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Working with the best people

How do you go about making sure you are working with only the best people? In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains why working with the best is so crucial and how to go about finding them.

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Are Marketers a cost or revenue?

Finance departments often see ‘Sales’ as revenue, but ‘Marketing’ as a cost on the business. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, explains why it is so important for marketers to ensure they are recognized as a revenue driver.

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Working in the V zone

What’s the most important issue for you as a marketer? You’ve got your customer’s needs on one hand, the company’s needs on the other, and the ‘V’ zone is the bit in the middle – that’s were you are. Thomas Barta, explains how a marketer can identify where that ‘V’ zone is.

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Marketing vision

How important is it for marketing leaders to aim high, to have a dream, to have something in which they believe? In this lesson, Thomas Barta explains that because marketing is such a tough job, if you have a dream, it gives you something on to which you can hold.

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Being Eros in a Logos world

C-Suite are mainly motivated from a Logos point of view. In this lesson, Thomas Barta, a C-suite marketing consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs, sets out the challenges for marketing leaders who are more naturally Eros, in a Logos world