Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When you succeed at something big, was it due to the market, the price, the positioning, the long hours, the social media campaign, the right leadership, the right employees? Elizabeth Gilbert wrestles with this challenge in her TED talk: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

When networks develop into communities, the results can be powerful. Look at the accomplishments of Wikipedia contributors, open-source software developers who find and fix bugs in Linux, or doctors who help each another with difficult diagnoses as part of the Sermo social network.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market. And India's nation of entrepreneurs is driving change in market after market. In particular, watch for markets that historically were inhospitable to entrepreneurs. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

For example, back in early 2005, I and my colleague Clark Gilbert (now the CEO of Deseret News and Deseret Digital) ran a workshop for 100 top executives in the U.S. Another, arguably simpler, technique is to change the way you measure market share. newspaper industry. The sentiment in the room was clearly triumphant.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Today, the term increasingly serves as a corporate bogeyman that warns executives of the need to stand up and respond when disruptive developments encroach on their market. Once one of the most powerful companies in the world, today the company has a market capitalization of less than $1 billion. Why did this happen?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

In the business world, marketers use enchantment all the time. Research from John Bohannon has shown that dance performances can enhance the acquisition and development of knowledge. And creativity in general is the key to unlocking “ big magic ,” as the writer Elizabeth Gilbert calls it. Have a challenging mission.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

This seems to be a key question on the minds of not just marketers, but company strategists these days. This intensive customer focus has increased as technology-enabled transparency and online social media accelerate an inexorable flow of market power downstream from suppliers to customers. How well do you know your customers?

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