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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

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The One Skill All Leaders Should Work On

Harvard Business Review

Being customer focused: We typically think of service or business development professionals as being good at, and focused on, building relationships. Assertiveness doesn't cause honesty or vice-versa, but when the two operate together they give people the courage not only to know what is right but to stand up for it as well.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

He had developed an extensive plan, and had the promise of grant money behind him. The problem with the effort, of course, was that building both the necessary African infrastructure and the logistics network needed to transport the non-indigenous crops was going to be a very expensive proposition indeed. or you might not.

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The Big Picture of Business – Sayings, Meanings and Interpretations

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Welcome to the paradigms that many of us have operated under for some time.

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How Israeli Startups Can Scale

Harvard Business Review

We selected this benchmark because it reflects the phase in which companies have proven product viability, achieved initial product/market fit, and are now expanding sales and growing more complex operations. They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing.