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Are You Clinging to the Wrong Strategy Style?

Coaching Tip

Perhaps, you should ask these questions: How predictable is the environment in which our unit operates? A classical strategy (the one everyone learned in business school) works well for companies operating in predictable and immutable environments. Source: Harvard Business Reveiw, September 2012. Your answers may vary widely.

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What Greece Has to Do Now: Fix Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

Worse still, the real issue, which is the possibility of lightening the real debt load by rescheduling payments and extending maturities (but without affecting the nominal value due to Greece’s official creditors), has been pushed away, and some in Germany would want to renege on a 2012 deal which reduced interest rates and extended payments.

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The Big Picture of Business: Institutional Reviews Help Public Companies to Learn from the Downturn and Move Forward

Strategy Driven

There is a sense that company operations are out of control. Branch 5: Sales strategy, sales training, marketing strategy, customer service, advertising, direct marketing, public relations, special events, video production, promotional specialties, graphic design-production and website design-production. External-Marketplace.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

This is not written to take swipes at responsible branding, marketing and advertising. Advertising fulfills many essential niche needs. Business-to-business publication advertising. My analysis: Beware of that phrase in advertising. Branding is a sub-set of marketing, which is a sub-sub-set of corporate strategy.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

Brandt, CEO and founder of The MPI Group and an award-winning journalist, has devoted more than two decades to studying leadership in effective, purpose-driven organizations. Mostly because it’s fundamentally more difficult to lead an organization than ever before, due to a confluence of leadership trends and external factors.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle. Consider what Aetna faced in 2012. This includes funding advertising that targets or promotes a specific candidate as long as it’s independent from the candidate and party committees. million to the U.S.