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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Tony Mayo

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? More on Gandhi here.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The following is a guest piece by cognitive scientist and author Dr. Carmen Simon. Dr. Carmen Simon is a published author, cognitive psychologist, and co-founder of Rexi-Media. She holds doctorates in instructional technology and cognitive psychology. No, water.” I heard the exchange above just now, on a flight to Michigan.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

Killing off brands is not a popular or pleasant thought, but we should consider it more often than we do. Some executives may be reluctant to admit – perhaps for sentimental or political reasons — that their brand is sucking out more value from the company than it creates. Profitability isn’t a useful metric.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Share this: This entry was posted in Brain candy , Leadership and tagged Art of Management 2010 Best Quotes , inspiring ideas , leadership lessons , Malcolm Gladwell , Simon Sinek. Your team is being untethered!! Challenge will be to manage them!”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

They are low-powered radio transmitters that can send signals to smartphones that enter their immediate vicinity, via Bluetooth Low Energy technology. However, that technology typically relies on GPS tracking, which only works well outside the store. Hillshire Brands. Simon Malls. Communication Marketing Technology'

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. How: "Because we think differently, we marry cutting-edge technology with human intuition and beautiful design to create products that look and function like no other." This isn't my opinion. We believe in thinking differently."

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2012

It's a powerfully proven fact based on the study of the human brain, which Simon Sinek explains here. How: "Because we think differently, we marry cutting-edge technology with human intuition and beautiful design to create products that look and function like no other." This isn't my opinion. We believe in thinking differently."

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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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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. Another issue is that the simplified action prompts never include countervailing messages.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2013

For instance, in 2008 Simon Colbeck, head of technology for clothing, was concerned about the huge volume of garments that end up in landfills every year. Ideas for improvements or for entirely new initiatives bubble up from all corners of the organization. They hold their employees accountable.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

Consider a multinational, consumer brand company that was trying to rebalance its sourcing locations for the coming decade. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. The environmental and labor practices of subcontractors could damage the brand. Sponsored by Accenture. Those risks were many.

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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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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

JANUARY 8, 2015

The top places were not all taken up by trendy tech brands, and the bottom was not dominated by multinational banks. The only shock there was that the technology retailer, Carphone Warehouse, did even worse. And what does this tell us about the way the corporate world is dealing with its empathy deficit?

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology. Blog Post ).

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