Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In our book, Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters; Business Practices , we discovered the leadership principles of organized crime syndicates that forge high-performance teams of very loyal gangsters, incredibly strong brand names and cultures with a long-term perspective and an unrelenting customer focus. Zimmerman , Ph.D.,

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Tony Mayo

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

. … Strategy may be poised to be the next field revolutionized by the same concepts that have made behavioral economics and behavioral finance hotbeds of new ideas. Simon indicated it took about ten years to be really good at something. Once there, you develop an “intuition&#  about how to make decisions.

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Mayo Simon Executive Coaching Newsletter 135

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Is it because of WHAT you do or is it because of WHY you do it? Over the past few weeks I’ve been asking clients and other professionals their “why.” Many times it doesn’t seem clearly defined.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. Pricing pressure is more intense in retail, less so in areas like top-branded luxury goods or highly differentiated machinery.

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

Corporate tweeters need to know that they aren’t just promoting a brand or solving a problem: they are performing for an audience, supporting customers throughout their journey, and even, subtly, selling. Social media isn’t merely a place for people to chat with each other and for brands to talk at their customers.

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Company Airlines Brand Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). This is a strong model for industries like consumer packaged goods, where one person, such as a brand manager, is responsible for product development from beginning to end.

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Project Innovation Team Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Similarly, Biocon doesn't suffer from a "not-invented-here" mindset: it gladly sources inventions from partner labs like the Cuba-based CMI and uses its transformation skills to manufacture and market them in India and abroad as its own branded solutions. Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange Media.

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