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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. It’s a provider that a customer or client favors in the purchase of a product or service versus its competition. A preferred provider has a significant competitive advantage over all other providers, because it is the “go-to” provider in the marketplace. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

I’m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzog’s concept for most of my career. Proponents believe that dominant market share creates competitive advantage because ofmarketplace leverage and economies of scale. Be forewarned, this tactic destroys profits. But hold on for a moment.

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Changing an Organization’s Culture, Without Resistance or Blame

Harvard Business Review

They had no career consequences — no one outside of HR, not even managers’ bosses, saw them. Better people will also bring long-lasting competitive advantage in our industry. We wanted managers to know the areas they needed to get better at, as well as the strengths they could build upon.