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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

Instead, longevity is based on entrepreneurial thinking and innovation – in exploring ways to adapt corporate and business strategies in response to market, technological, and social and cultural change. Resistance from Within. The most significant hurdle by far is resistance to change from within. Resistance from the Supplier.

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The Problem With Information

Strategy Driven

Information, when used to influence or sell, advise or share, has cost us untold loss in business and relationships. It actually causes resistance. Information Causes Resistance. We’re actually creating resistance, losing business, destroying relationships, and impeding change. But is this true? And we’re wrong.

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Questioning Questions

Strategy Driven

They encourage resistance, partial/missed answers, and lies. These questions restrict possibility, cause resistance, create distrust, and encourage lying. These narrow the range of possible responses, often creating some form of resistance or defensive lies; they certainly cause defensiveness and distrust.

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Buying Decisions, Buying Decision Path, Buy Cycles, and Pre-Sales

Strategy Driven

In 1979 I became Rookie (stockbroker) of the Year at Merrill Lynch with 210 accounts (the market was 777). By entering only during the final element of choice (vendor, solution), sellers squander the ability to influence the major portion of a buyer’s decision process which has little to do with needs or purchase.

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Japan Is Counting on Shareholder Activism to Improve Its Economy

Harvard Business Review

In Japan several factors combine to help insulate managers from outside influence, including cross-holdings where the company owns shares in a partner firm, docile boards mostly composed of company executives, and a court system historically biased against investment funds.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Hiring my trainer made all the difference, and pretty soon I was reaping the rewards of resistance training again. Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.

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How Our Company Learned to Make Better Predictions About Everything

Harvard Business Review

Founders bet years of their lives on finding product market fit, investors bet billions on the future value of ambitious startups, and executives bet that their strategies will increase a company’s prospects. How much did viewership grow year-over-year in 2016? In Silicon Valley, everyone makes bets.