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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, business was free to focus on generating growth, productivity, innovation, and, ultimately, societal wealth. Toward a New Leadership Agenda. Software, sensors, and analytics are shifting value creation from stand-alone products to combinations of products and services. Essential background.

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How Winning Organizations Last 100 Years

Harvard Business

Most businesses focus on serving customers, owning resources, being efficient and growing — but the Centennials don’t. Currently, our alumni include the Head of Design at every car manufacturer in the world, apart from BMW, 8 of Apple’s 18 product designers and at least one designer in every Paris fashion house.”

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How to Evaluate Your Marketing Team

Prudent Pedal

My approach delineated between my two schools of marketing thought in the professional services world–the Productivity School and the Growth School. When I became a people manager in my twenties, I had the leadership competence of a two-year-old. If you are a Productivity School firm, use the Productivity School questions.

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Software doesn’t simply make existing products smarter or existing processes more efficient; it enables new models of delivery, engagement, and innovation that are far more productive and informative than the old.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. If your culture and brand are mismatched, you can end up with happy, productive employees who produce the wrong results.

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64 Proven Ways Consultants Can Generate Leads Online (Consulting Lead Generation)

Tsavo Neal

Selling productized consulting. You’re sharing your thought-leadership (content marketing) with your exact audience (senior people and decision makers) in a publication that already has the social proof and brand to establish trust. –Cal Friesen, Thought Leadership Resources. Interviewing a potential client.

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Trust Your Employees, Not Your Rule Book

Harvard Business

Here’s the good news: The big airlines are revising their rules for booking and boarding flights — rules that led to one of the great business fiascos in recent history, United Express Flight 3411. Sometimes those stories even involve the airlines. There will be no additional rules.” Good luck with that!