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Leading Teams Toward Success Using People, Products, and Profits

Leading Blog

We can all dream up big ideas, but few of us can bring them to market. You need all three, but put them in the wrong order and you are left extracting value from a customer rather than bonding a customer who becomes a partner in creating value. He publishes the business blog CorporateIntel.us

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Learn to identify other tourists and bond as hard as you can. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. They show us how not behave. Inflate budgets.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.”

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

It was the first time a vice chair would be based in an emerging market. It reflected the reality that a lot of GE’s growth will be coming from the developing world, and the leaders have to be there. It’s hard to admit the error, or they have a psychological bond with the person or think they can coach him or her.

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A No-Layoffs Policy Can Work, Even in an Unpredictable Economy

Harvard Business Review

When we were aiming to close a small chemical-dependency hospital in 2013, for example, we looked hard into unmet needs in the area. When our marketing department needed two new people, it kept the positions open for a while in order to take on two employees coming through the CRC from departments that were shrinking.

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Cracking the Mobile Advertising Code

Harvard Business Review

That phrase is increasingly shaping marketing decisions, and for good reason. What marketers should do. This trend has created an opportunity to develop engaging content that increases brand awareness. Ad dollars should go to developing useful and relevant apps that bond customers with the brand. "Mobile first."