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Become a Brand Renegade

Leading Blog

To do that, we had to lean into a “brand renegade” mindset and apply it to our daily operations. We prioritized how to move the industry forward as a more mainstream, P&L-focused business. With each decision, we asked ourselves what’s the best way to do something and could we make it even better.

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More Evidence For How Company Performance Is Affected By CEO Personality

LDRLB

high technology). CEOs could enlist individuals who posses these traits for their top management teams and could give them prominent roles in specific strategic domains…Venture capitalists could use these personality measurements in predicting the success of SMEs operating in dynamic industries and thus, in making investment decisions (p.

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Are You Leading Cash Registers?

Lead Change Blog

We live in a time flush with high efficiency, cost control, and lean operations. Bar coded packaging today drives inventory control, P&L calculations, and all manner of financial management processes. The irony was their technological prowess failed to keep the copper fitting bin flush with inventory.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Book of Acronyms

Strategy Driven

Technology cannot take the place of human communication… only may add to it. The person who commits to a path of professional development never stops achieving… and profitably impacts his-her business relationships. Language is food for the mind. Browse a dictionary, and you create new ideas.

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Make Your Company Customer-Centric – and Increase Profitability by a Whopping 75 Percent

Strategy Driven

Technology has provided us with unprecedented advances, information, knowledge, instant access and entertainment. While there’s no denying that technology has amazing advantages to make it easier for the customer in most cases. However, a company’s biggest expense doesn’t show on a P&L, at least not directly.

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Why Verizon's iPhone Could Be Good for AT&T

Harvard Business Review

The best companies are able to distinguish between these consumers by precisely valuing their operating profit potential, not just gross margin or volume. They do this by building consumer P&Ls through cross-functional teams across marketing, sales, supply chain and finance, much like some companies have built account and product P&Ls.

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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. After lunch we would take a tour of that country's operations. We tried to be as inclusive as possible.

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