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2010: When Leadership Hit the Rapids

Harvard Business Review

It has been a year of challenges for most: relentless business demands, continuing change, and higher expectations from them as leaders. No longer do I need to explain how globalization drives change and that leaders must adapt to a fast-changing world: the economic crisis brought this home decisively.

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The Big Picture of Business – Fine Wine, Aged Cheese and Valuable Antiques: Part I

Strategy Driven

Packaging, distribution and marketing of the product. The better it appears to be (marketing, wrapping, price, place of purchase) affects our viewpoint on its quality. Their market value is set by the seller, who often is an appreciator or, at the least, has a profit motive. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc.