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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Many CEOs told me, “Our prospects tell us that our product is clearly far superior to our competitors’, yet the prospects don’t buy. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” What do we do?

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The Importance of Perspective

CaseInterview.com

It’s an insight that I shared with a few thousand CEOs during the 2008 to 2009 Great Recession. Many CEOs told me, “Our prospects tell us that our product is clearly far superior to our competitors’, yet the prospects don’t buy. Here’s what I said: The problem is your definitional concept of the word “competitor.” What do we do?

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Your New Hit Product Might Be Underpriced

Harvard Business

The odds are stacked against new products or services. We have diagnosed thousands of product failures over the last 30 years, and have found recurring patterns. Often new products are over-engineered with too many features, usually at too high a price. The problem with wildly successful products.

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Business Book Review: Start-Up Nation

Management Consulted

In fact, in 2007-2008, Israel received the highest amount of venture funding per capita, which is more than any other nation in the world. In 2008, per capita venture capital investments in Israel were 2.5 eBay bought the company for $169M in January of 2008. QUICK REVIEW. 3 INTERESTING BOOK INSIGHTS.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Given the lack of a standard definition for leadership and seemingly contradictory evidence, it is no surprise you may feel skeptical. A controlled study involving leaders across different markets found a positive correlation between the leader's effectiveness and employee retention, sales, margin, labor costs, and net profit.

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How SMEs can welcome the decade of Organizational Culture

Asamby Consulting

This includes its productivity, performance, customer service, and employee engagement levels. Due to the ongoing efforts of governments to delay inflation and a recession since 2008, we are experiencing an overlap of one phase ending and a new phase beginning (see graphic 1). The Business Dictionary, 2018). What’s the bottom line?

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

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