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Start-ups, Franchises, Venture Capitalists Oh My!

Women on Business

Eric Koester, Zaarly’s co-founder and chief marketing officer, provides great tips to any new start-ups in the early stages. AllBusiness AllStar Franchise released winners for the fourth annual “best of the best” franchises of 2012. Buffalo Wild Wings Grill and Bar. Women tend to have the feminine leadership qualities.

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9 Lessons from Henry Ford’s $5 Day Decision

Leading Blog

He simplified the design and construction of the automobile, narrowed the choices available (“any color you want, so long as it’s black”) and marketed it toward what we would today call the “down market.” That’s why Fortune ’s editors named it as the ultimate in their 2012 book The Greatest Business Decisions of All Time.

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Measuring the ROI of social media? There’s a laugh, and a joke.

Strategy Driven

Social media, business social media, is running wild – with or without you. Amazon now has total market dominance based on leadership, vision, and technological excellence. Copyright 2007-2012 by StrategyDriven, Inc. TOTAL JOKE. And a bad one at that. Same with Apple. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Wild West Days of Social Media Are Over: Time For Some Discipline, Communicators

leaderCommunicator

And to others, anything social media falls in what they believe is the age of experimentation: the “Wild West” of the Internet. While I’m a big proponent of innovating with social media strategies, the days of the Wild West are – in a word -- over. MIT Sloan Management Review 2012 Social Business Global. IBM 2012 CEO study.

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Do You Know What Makes Your Company Distinctive?

Harvard Business Review

This clarity of focus is why in 2012 USAA achieved 98% customer retention , and 95% of their customers said they will stay with USAA for life. I often hear large companies claim that “leadership” or “culture” is their differentiator. Or, how does your leadership translate into something that customers would say sets you apart?

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Our work with dozens of companies teaches us that individuals on the leadership team often have very different targets in mind.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

While "running out" isn't really the right phrase, it's clear that delivering many commodities to market is getting harder and more expensive (we don't dig for oil a mile under the ocean for the heck of it). Markets have a remarkable way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. trillion market for clothes and shoes.