Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

You may have the best materials, the newest innovations, the most creative product –but those resources are meaningless without the core of your business: your employees. “In technology it’s about the people: getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.”

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Covey Welch Long-term Collins 125

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” In this TED video , Sinek explains what he believes to be the reason for Apple’s constant innovations and their repeated successes. 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?

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Press Release Discount PR Marketing Strategy 167

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. HBR: Is new products’ high rate of failure really a pricing problem, or does it reflect a more fundamental innovation problem?

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Price Productivity Products Simon 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

Simons—after all, he’s been around for decades, earning and donating vast amounts of money, generally enjoying life (despite the accidental deaths of two of his five adult children), and giving Dos Equis’s “ most interesting man in the world ” a serious run for his money. “Jim,” who walked in.

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Disruptive Innovation Hedge Brand Simon 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

Leading technology companies are increasingly soliciting their users to take political action on their behalf to defend controversial business models from regulation, support new programs, and promote their moral values in active political battles. Rinse and repeat, over and over.

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Politics Real Estate Morale Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Now, drones are moving from the battlefield to your neighborhood, and it's about to create a brand new industry right along with it. Imagine the hybrid of aviation, logistics, technology, supply chain management and more that will be required to be an effective employee in the near-future for the drone industry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

On recent visits to India, we have found that "innovation" is the buzzword on everybody's lips. President Pratibha Patil has even declared 2010-2020 as India's " Decade of Innovation." Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model.

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