The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2016

” Following graduate school and the military (including a tour of duty as an infantry unit commander in Viet Nam) Chip was director of management and organizational development for NCNB (now Bank of America). A leadership lesson Chip gained from his first job was: inclusion will get you more commitment than control. .

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Levitt Godin Customer Loyalty Airlines 150

CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Thursday, November 11, 2010 Its a Jungle In There Sometimes I like to work slowly. But as I always say Leadership(Direction/Work on the right thing) before Management(efficiency). I call it CEO Blog - Time Leadership because of my keen interest in time. I think this is one reason I love early mornings.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Levitt Charisma Efficiency 189

Joseph Lalonde

MARCH 14, 2018

I asked each of these leaders a single question about healthy leadership: What healthy habits do you attribute to your success as a leader? Discover a healthy leadership habit of @MichaelHyatt at Click To Tweet. Check out these healthy habits of #leadership experts @MichaelHyatt, @MarkTimm, and @48DaysTeam Click To Tweet.

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Succession Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Follow-up 316

Mark Sanborn

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

” Theodore Levitt said, “The future belongs to those who see opportunities before they become obvious.” Develop your learning agenda on what you will need to know to be successful, not what you use to need. The post Learn Like A Leader appeared first on Mark Sanborn Keynote Leadership Speaker.

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Learning-by-Doing Drucker Levitt Education 70

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

In 1960, marketing legend Ted Levitt provided perhaps his seminal contribution to the Harvard Business Review : “ Marketing Myopia.” To avoid that, Levitt exhorted leaders to ask themselves the seemingly obvious question – “What business are you really in?” Innovation Leadership Strategy' No, it’s to maximize shareholder value.

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Levitt Christensen Competitive Advantage Welch 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Reading has a host of benefits for those who wish to occupy positions of leadership and develop into more relaxed, empathetic, and well-rounded people. But I have tried to make all the choices directly relevant to young businesspeople interested in leadership. Recently, I wrote that leaders should be readers.

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Books Cialdini Christensen Collins 22