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Are Customers Or Employees More Important?

The Horizons Tracker

In 2005, Vineet Nayar made waves when he announced that the Indian IT company HCL would put employees first. The consumer-centric business model is continuing to evolve, becoming more personalized than ever. These trends are affecting the labor market, and how employees are treated,” the researchers conclude.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 2: Concept Validation Is Not Enough

Strategy Driven

These circumstances made the market ripe for our business idea – a central exchange for commercial real estate. Since the Internet was still in its infancy, our business model called for selling classified print ads in the form of commercial real estate listings, traditional display ads, and subscriptions.

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Robert Iger's 20 Leadership Lessons

Leading Blog

When he took over as CEO in 2005, he laid out three strategic priorities saying it should be about the future, not the past : Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.

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Kill Your Business Model Before It Kills You

Harvard Business Review

This vignette raises a key leadership question: Why do leaders wait too long to modify or abandon their business models? Even a company as sophisticated as GE waited too long to reorient its lighting business away from incandescent bulbs. If you only invest in refining today's business model you'll get locked into it.

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Local, Targeted and Religious Marketing… | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page Local, Targeted and Religious Marketing… RSS Feed Local, Targeted and Religious Marketing… By Rajesh Setty on Sun 17 Aug 2008, 6:08 PM - View Comments Kavitha (my wife) and Sumukh (our son) are currently in India on a holiday. Rajesh Setty Entrepreneur.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 4: Don’t Close Your Ears to Experts

Strategy Driven

Failure Point #1: Starting a business based on your passion, rather than building a business based on your distinctive competence. Failure Point #2: Convincing yourself that “the world will beat a path to your doorstep” without securing preorders to prove your business model. 500 company.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 3: The Dark Side of Bootstrapping

Strategy Driven

Our business model was not working as planned. The deep recession in commercial real estate had forced corporations to freeze all marketing budgets. He bootstrapped his first business, United Systems Integrators (USI) Corporation, a corporate real estate outsourcing firm, and grew it into an Inc. 500 company.