Melissa Reeve

How Servant Leadership Supports High Performing Marketing Teams

  How marketing leaders choose to approach managing people significantly influences the success of their teams and, by extension, the organization. One leadership style that has gained traction in recent years emphasizes leader-as-coach rather than leader-as-controller. Rooted in the principle of leading by serving others, this approach, called servant leadership, flips the conventional leadership model […]

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Decentralized Decisions: The Critical Role of Leadership Alignment

Leaders often underestimate the power of decentralizing decision-making, preferring instead to lead with ego and control. But a decentralized approach not only enhances the agility and flexibility of marketing teams but also significantly contributes to their sense of empowerment and ability to create flow in the organization. Leaders who embrace decentralized decision making must do

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How Agile Can Help Leaders Overcome Collaboration Challenges

One of the biggest challenges facing marketing is a lack of alignment at the leadership level. The lack of alignment often trickles down to the teams in the form of conflicting priorities and rework. In short, collaboration remains a critical challenge for many leaders. As highlighted in Ron Carucci and Luis Velasquez’s article “When Leaders

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Redefining Marketing’s Value in the Organization

Redefining Marketing’s Value in the Organization  Three decades ago, IT struggled to be considered anything outside of a cost-center. Now, technology pervades all aspects of the organization, providing strategic and competitive advantages. Marketing shares a similar – and similarly dated – perception of being seen as a cost center. According to the 2023 CMO Survey from

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Five Patterns to Avoid in Marketing Backlog Prioritization

Prioritizing the backlog—the marketer’s ever-growing list of campaigns, content ideas, and growth strategies—is both a trove of opportunity and a bucket of hazards. Tight prioritization leads to shared understanding and alignment. Loose backlog prioritization can quickly overwhelm teams with unclear and conflicting direction. Many teams fall into common traps that can derail their efforts to tame an

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Prioritizing and Streamlining Content Creation with Agile Marketing

Content marketers often face the dilemma of too many ideas and too little time. Is it more important to produce social media content for the top of the funnel, an in-depth report for mid-funnel or a landing page to cross-sell to existing customers? Each potentially requires a different process and drives a different outcome. Agile

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