Seth Godin Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

But for the one who sticks it out, who arrives hours late, there''s the respect that comes from finding the strength to make it, even when all seems helpless. Unearned advantages, multiplied. At the grueling Iditarod, there''s a prize for the musher who finishes last: The Red Lantern. Failing to finish earns you nothing, of course.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2018

I call this approach nonprofit judo , a reference to the martial art that emphasizes how an apparently disadvantaged player can succeed through a strategy that turns weaknesses into strengths. My experiences with nonprofit entrepreneurs have revealed patterns in the strategic choices that successful leaders make.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Examples for cost associated with growth: Hiring more people Buying inventory Marketing cost Market Position and USP Besides the above, there's your strategic positioning, your competitive strength and the value you generate for your clients. Want to increase your profitability? Book a Call. The same is true for your job as the CEO.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

MAY 8, 2023

Servant leadership across cultures: Harnessing the strength of the world's most powerful management philosophy. Evidence suggests that selfless love increases leader and follower commitment, yielding enhanced intrinsic motivation that amplifies workforce and business strategy alignment. Fiscal 2019 universal registration document [PDF].

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2017

Some established companies have found a path that works — they are surviving, thriving, and going head-to-head with an onslaught of fast-moving startups that seem to multiply overnight. Digital transformation requires new strengths. What lessons have these companies learned that others need to embrace? The way ahead.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 25, 2017

Objects with greater mass exert more pull, and the strength of the force increases exponentially as objects move closer together. Gravity gives us a way of comparing the relative strength of a pull strategy, whether as a business platform or a method of engagement. Force Multipliers. First, gravity is a force of attraction.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Of all of the various sub-categories in capacity-building, one and only one has the potential to multiply the amount of money that a funder puts into it, and that category is fundraising – the least loved of them all. Because no one likes to fund fundraising. It’s sales. We turn up our nose. This is a lost opportunity.

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Harvard Business

MAY 13, 2016

Imagine the strength of the acumen and the voice. And it’s the kind of action that would multiply our ability to have an impact on all those that we serve. Consolidating databases and information and talent. Imagine the sense of pride it would engender.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

” This is the strength of an AI agent that can elicit information like a person, rather than an analytics tool that simply finds patterns in the data it collects, like a machine. “Because the outreach to leads takes 6-8 times, Conversica is a true force multiplier for our sales team,” say Nickel.

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CaseInterview.com

MAY 9, 2019

I set up an Excel sheet which generated random numbers and added them up, divided them, multiplied them, subtracted them. It is this judgment decision that get colored by the strength or weakness of the cover letter. I had only a few days to recover from that, and I started practicing children's math like a lunatic.

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Consulting and Organizational Management

MARCH 5, 2012

Around 10,000 BCE, as humans began to multiply more rapidly and settle down—especially around The Fertile Crescent in what is now Iraq—the tribal social system, which served so well as long as people moved around, began to break down. The strength of respect for ancestors was most useful.

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