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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

Even though the chosen path resulted in the realization of my goals and dreams, I quickly became completely disinterested in corporate culture and, unwilling to jump through any more hoops for the big bucks. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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How Companies Use Strategically Timed Announcements to Confuse the Market

Harvard Business Review

On October 23, 1996, the day AT&T announced that John Walter, an industry outsider, would be named CEO, the company’s market valuation dropped by $4 billion. Stock market reactions are often used to judge whether a firm’s actions are successful. We tested our ideas using a sample of roughly 800 acquisitions in the U.S.,

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Ten Years On: Semi-random Reflections from a Decade of Coaching

Next Level Blog

  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.  My wife worked with her in 1999 and back in January 2000, Nancy agreed to talk with totally stuck me even though I wasn't in her target market.   I used to work on Wall Street and knew the Ground Zero area really well. 

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? In 2005 he won the Japanese government’s Most Valuable Patent award. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Prepare and Adapt.

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Marketing’s Mission: Make it Meaningfully Different

Harvard Business Review

Instructors wear the clothing at in-store events like self-defense and goal-setting workshops, simultaneously building product awareness and forging ties with local communities. But marketing plays a broader role in shaping a brand. Good marketing helps ensure that brands are meaningful, different, and salient.

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

Employers can readily apply market forces and supply-chain tools to improve the performance of both. The successes of the collaboratives have been reported in the Wall Street Journal , the book Pursuing the Triple Aim , and a Harvard Business Review article that explains how other employers can replicate these efforts in their local markets.

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Fixing the World's Infrastructure Problems

Harvard Business Review

Just a few examples illustrate some of the pressing issues: South Africa''s power distribution network has an estimated maintenance backlog of $4 billion — equivalent to half of the country''s total investment in electric power generation and distribution in 2011. an estimated $100 billion per year.