Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The little-known fact is that Nokia had invested USD40 billion into creating a similar style iPhone device with color touchscreens, maps and shopping but the product never hit the shelves as management thought it would not have mass market appeal. How wrong they were. Slow Down To Speed Up.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Marketing: How much to spend on marketing. Premature scaling of marketing and product development efforts is a widespread cause of startup failure. Crowdfunding campaigns may demonstrate a product’s appeal to product category enthusiasts, but they don’t provide data on mass-market demand.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2015

Imagine what Atari might have achieved if Steve Jobs had stayed there to develop the first mass market personal computer. Leadership Partnership. What is interesting is that most organizations weed out the very people that they need to create massive value. Producer overwhelmingly do not go it alone. Management'

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Remember… Trust takes a long time to develop, but it can be destroyed by a single action. You begin to sell your luxury products in mass-market retail stores to boost sales. — You let your salespeople discount products rather than justify the sale based on the value provided. — Remember… Half the truth is often a whole lie.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2010

So Acumen finds entrepreneurs on site in the developing world, funds them, teaches them and pushes them to build really big organizations. As a result, stores in the developing world tend to be stocked with the classic, the tried and true, because people buy refills of previous purchases, not the new. Mass market acceptance is rare.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2011

Throughout the 1920s, and even in the midst of the Great Depression in the early 1930s, he kept the company focused on what was then cutting-edge tabulation — the punch card machine — pouring profits back into research and development. Within a decade, however, IBM had fallen behind in the market it did so much to create.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2011

This post is part of a three-week series exploring the re-invention of the social infrastructure of cities, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. And it's easier to sell to a monolithic mass market than to the diverse and dynamic collection of markets that we call a city.

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