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Craft a Remarkable Personal Brand Statement! 29 Steps & Examples

Miles Anthony Smith

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. I have a documented track record of business development, operational planning, and leadership. A pioneer in the field, Rand’s personal brand got strapped to a rocket when he started his company, Moz, in 2004.

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What We Can Learn About Resilience from Female Leaders of the UN

Harvard Business Review

Through my leadership development work with the United Nations (UN), I’ve been privileged to work with professionals who operate in some of the world’s most challenging contexts. I take time off, get together with friends, stop traveling on missions for a bit.”

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Take Your Show on the Road

Harvard Business Review

Many products can be complicated to operate or dangerous if used incorrectly, and a van can save a customer from traveling to a training center. Bringing the skills development that customers should be investing in anyway right to their parking lots is the kind of value-adding service that helps lock in channel partners. .

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

With limited purchasing power, low credit card usage, and poor delivery networks, it''s clear that the approach for e-commerce in developing markets has to be different than in the U.S. A hybrid approach has to be developed — one that takes good elements from the U.S. also in 2001 ) and India ( Bazee in 2004 ).

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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6 Reasons Platforms Fail

Harvard Business Review

He charged developers for toolkits – inhibiting the very software producers he should have wanted on Apple’s platform. Apple has since figured out this balance, of course, by opening the iOS platforms to app developers. Failure to engage developers. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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How the Best Restaurants in the World Balance Innovation and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

For example, at The Fat Duck in the UK (which has had three Michelin stars since 2004, except in 2016 when it closed for refurbishment, and where I worked on the innovation side), cooking temperatures are systematically controlled to 0.1°C, books and cooking gadgets), developing brand partnerships, and opening more restaurants.