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Want To Be On The Leading Edge? Forget About It.

Markovitz Consulting

All too often, companies that strive for first mover advantage bleed their products—or their entire organization—to death. Peter Golder and Gerard Tellis’s seminal study of 500 brands in 50 product categories reveals that almost half of market pioneers fail. Good luck finding any of those products today.

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Go Faster Alone but Farther Together

Chad Barr

LEGO: A Blueprint for Collaboration and Individual Ingenuity At the dawn of the 2000s, LEGO found itself on the brink of collapse, its brand diluted and finances in turmoil. .” Let’s delve into these examples to uncover the profound lessons they offer. The appointment of Jørgen Vig Knudstorp as CEO marked the turning point.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business

Often, when I’m asked to give a speech on strategy at some company event or conference, I find that one of the other speakers is a former professional sports player. Although there is nothing wrong with commitment and perseverance, I, however, think sport (much less war) is often an unhelpful analogy.

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Talent. What Is a Sales Playbook?

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Aging Societies Should Make More of Mentorship

Harvard Business

This last film sports the subtitle, “Experience Never Gets Old,” surely happy news to any Boomer thinking about their next chapter in the world of work.) And they’re hardly feel-good indulgences.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The FTI Technology practice played a substantial role in the Major League Baseball steroids investigation that both news and sports casters covered religiously. They did much of the work piecing together Mr. FTI Consulting has 5 areas of expertise, but excels in Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Corporate Finance/Restructuring.

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business

When Bernstein hid a set of production lines from managers’ view, the performance of employees on those lines increased by 10% to 15%. They will represent the products more consistently. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk.

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