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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012.

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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

Houston energy magnate Dan Duncan who died earlier this year had an estimated net worth of $9 billion, and television industry mogul John Kluge died with a $6.5 This is a change from the 2010 law which based taxation of inherited assets on their original cost basis, instead of their current fair market value. billion estate.

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What Marketers Should Know About Personality-Based Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Communicators and marketers can now adopt a personalized approach to their work, ideally one based on behavioral science. But the execution lags behind the science while the claims of some marketers as to what personality marketing can do far exceed it. We believe that includes personality marketing.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

It made a massive investment (more than $1 billion) to build a software “ Center of Excellence ” in San Ramon, California to manage the data explosion created by the increasing intelligence of its industrial machines. Together, these constituted radical moves for an industrial company headquartered on the East Coast.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business Review

” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. “Well-intentioned but not well designed” was how Ian Silk, the CEO of Australia’s biggest industry superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, assessed the bank’s attempt.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt. Consider PPG Industries. By 2012 as the firm became more focused, this split had evolved to 85% coatings and 7% glass.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. But typical of disruptive transformation in other industries, the U.S. The change will become invisible.