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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Target predicts customer pregnancy in order to market relevant products accordingly. Marketing casts a wide net—"junk mail" is marketing money wasted and trees felled to print unread brochures. The system grades as accurately as human graders.

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What To Do When Results are in the Toilet

Let's Grow Leaders

Approach 2: Redefine Markets. When I took over responsibility for 100 or so Verizon Wireless stores our biggest problem was a saturated market. Career & Learning confident humility Results & Execution breakthrough results how to get better results improving business results' Everyone had a cell phone.

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Are We Really Prepared for a More Automated Future?

Lead Change Blog

Things we take for granted today as can’t-live-without mostly existed for quite some time before demand caught up: robotics; the Web; graphical design software; computerized motor engines; online banking; the smart phone; and wireless broadband devices are just a few.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. Bezos’ approach works especially well when the innovation requires overcoming a lot of market/demand uncertainty (will people buy it?) and we like to stick to our knitting.

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A celebration of consistency. A legacy of insight.

Strategy Driven

Mark Ethridge, then-publisher of the Charlotte Business Journal, novelist, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, and my good friend and supporter, said that publishing Sales Moves was his most impactful marketing decision of 1992. It was the turning point in my career. Newspapers called wanting to publish the column.

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New MBAs Should Start Their Careers in Frontier Markets

Harvard Business Review

.’” Under a different CEO, Econet Wireless Nigeria went on to build a nationwide network of street-side airtime sales. Most Western executives have limited exposure to a frontier market until they are relatively senior in their careers. Of course, it helps you understand those foreign markets.

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy. The demands of practitioners and the market supply of innovation from entrepreneurs are simply mismatched. The result is a large-scale market of technological mediocrity. Regrettably not.