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Achieving Startup Success via Product-Market Fit

Tom Spencer

While this idea is appealing and no doubt has some truth to it, it has led many entrepreneurs to develop, fund, and launch products that ultimately fail. Why waste years scaling up a product that from the outset never performed the job that customers needed doing? It has come to be known as product-market fit.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Figure 1 : Innovations from NASA will help the US meet its sustainable aviation goals. While electric vehicles are already replacing conventional automobiles, no electric aircraft is ready for large scale commercial production that can usher in a sustainable revolution in aerospace. Aerospace is one of the fastest growing markets.

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Leadership in World 2.0 is Going to Look a Lot Like World 1.0

Markovitz Consulting

To be sure, if you own cruise ships, an airline, or a live concert venue, you’ll have to deal with serious changes to your business models for a while. Manufacturing plants will still have human beings assembling products, even if they’re wearing personal protective equipment.

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Servant Leadership: Principles, Popularity, and Payoff

Rick Conlow

Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines is known for its strong commitment to servant leadership. As a result, the airline has consistently ranked high in customer satisfaction and employee engagement. The company’s founder, Herb Kelleher, believed that putting employees first was the key to success.

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Manufacturing Companies Need to Sell Outcomes, Not Products

Harvard Business

Suppose you owned an airline and ordered an engine from Rolls-Royce or GE. A piece of machinery to meet a product need? Product development teams will need to focus on delivering products as a service to enable real-time service level monitoring. Product performance data helps inform future improvements.

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Staying Safe Is the Motto of the Day, Week, Month

Martinka Consulting

The headlines tell us the airline industry, cruise industry, and therefore related businesses like hotels and suppliers are having problems. My Rotary club, like many others, has canceled at least three meetings. A good friend owns a video production company. But what about small businesses, that I really feel for?

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Defense, then Offense

CaseInterview.com

The reason this occurs is that these two things happen in a recession: First, some opportunities get destroyed (think: airlines, hotels, restaurants). Think Zoom video conferencing; they grew from 10 million to 300 million meeting participants in five months. In your market, this might be a product opportunity. economic history.