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Strategies for Succeeding in Today’s Brazil

Harvard Business Review

It boasted rapid economic growth, abundant natural resources, and a large (and increasingly wealthy) market of 200 million consumers. Each requires leaders to pay particular attention to nuances related to the Brazilian market. times their earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA). times EBITDA.

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Recommended Resources – An Interview with Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi, authors of The Essential Advantage

Strategy Driven

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

Nokia is still struggling to find a future beyond going head to head with the Android and iPhone platforms in the fiercely competitive smart phone market. In 2007, for instance, when Amazon introduced the original Kindle, it was far from clear whether e-readers would ever catch on in a big way. Those kinds of payoffs require time.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. And it’s not just the financial results that are impressive — Huffington Post has won a Pulitzer Prize, as has Politico, a news organization launched in 2007. Aren’t they?

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A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A.

Terry Starbucker

After graduating from my undergrad education (2007) I unexpectedly joined my parents’ company as the Global Sales and Marketing Director…it has been amazing yet seems to be a daily trial by fire test. I’m going to try “cleaning out my ears&# today. Ak January 5, 2010 at 1:38 pm Thank you Terry. Fantastic post.