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Forget Brand Preference – Win the Brand Relevance War

Strategy Driven

Not only are these brands phenomenally successful – they are examples of product categories where competitors are nearly irrelevant, says branding guru David Aaker. Defining and Managing the Category or Subcategory. Evaluating a Concept’s Prospects. Creating Barriers: Sustaining the Differentiation. Brand Relevance Competition.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Who is the most influential living management thinker? That is the question that the Thinkers50, the biennial global ranking of management thinkers , seeks to answer. The results for 2011 are published today — 14 November. Even so, management is often seen as a poor man's science. It's a fair question.

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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. This study examined thousands of managers across industries with two basic parameters: Was the manager successful? Was the manager effective?