Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2012

You blame the customer when something goes wrong, something didn’t happen as planned, someone didn’t respond, or you lost a sale to a competitor – especially at a lower price. Why did they tell me that my price is too high? Will this help me build my sales and personal development skills? Very wrong.

Customer Loyalty 50

Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage Creativity Seminar 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2 99.99999 percent of actual management consultants come from five basic career orientations and fit onto one of the five branches of The Business Tree : Technical or niche industry orientation. Running the business. Body of Knowledge. 2 percent).

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 61

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Here a few notable examples. Many economists since have been hired by the U.S.

Strategy 9

Strategy Black-Scholes Airlines Price 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. Here's what I propose. Had something catastrophic happened? The problem? They reported $0.42 But enough talk.

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Proposal Benchmarking Consensus Morale 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

The development of the Nook Color, which took place in Silicon Valley, proved divisive for the company, which is based in New York. And as Lynch tried to wrangle 300 developers and designers, Nook''s sales dropped 26% in a year amid talk that the company should be split up. The Last Days of Big Law The New Republic.

Innovation 8

Innovation Armstrong Globalization Price 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. To succeed long term, winning on price alone is not sufficient.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I went into the tech industry, where I saw firsthand that male executives preferred to promote the ideas and innovations proposed by the female colleagues they happened to be having sex with. I had never thought of sexual harassment as affecting my career arc, and yet I can now see how its friction surely influenced it.

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Venture Capitalist Gordon Industry Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. To achieve those ends, we propose that business leaders support a new agenda, comprising seven areas of opportunity. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it.

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Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Consider disrupting yourself when it comes to these five areas — areas where the skills you honed as a high-achieving student are likely doing you a disservice in your career: 1. This will feel a bit like taking a test (or proposing an idea or making a pitch) while feeling unprepared. You won't be.

Career 8

Career Learning-by-Doing Hedge Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

What do an inflated surgical bill, a fuming real-estate developer, and a dreaded performance appraisal have in common? This is especially important because research shows that increasing your likability will do more for your career than slightly increasing competence. All can be mitigated with one simple gesture: a request for advice.

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Advice Real Estate Constraint Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

Most companies now have more gender-balanced talent pools, especially at the early-to-mid-career levels, and are looking for ways to make sure progress continues at the mid-to-upper levels. The second phase was to attract and develop more local and international people. He’s celebrating, and DSM is flourishing.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2016

Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won’t work. What is the idea, opinion, or proposal that you’re disagreeing with? Don’t : Assume that disagreeing is going to damage your relationship or career — the consequences are often less dramatic than we think. What the Experts Say.

Power 8

Power How To Proposal Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2011

For my whole career I did it wrong," says co-founder and CEO Lavoie. Imagine a typical stock market portfolio, but instead of buying and selling shares of stock and other financial instruments, players float, advance and develop portfolios of ideas. -based company is a nimble competitor in a high-stakes and highly-structured industry.

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Innovation Webinar Proposal Hamel 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

As a growth officer in my early career with the mad men and women of McCann Ericksson , my mom could never quite grasp what I did for a living. But, when we pitched, won and delivered the phenomenon now globally known as Priceless for MasterCard, she could finally brag to her friends at my Aunt Rose's kitchen table.

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Belief Systems Tips Audience CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

If they were required to purchase a seat to strap their car carrier into, it would increase the price of the trip for their parents, who would then be more likely to drive. By forcing people to purchase additional seats it would inevitably drive up the demand and therefore the price of airline tickets (and I fly quite a bit).

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Airlines Report Guidelines Discount 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

“Search the Internet, use your network, go to your career development office or a trade association, if there is one,” says Weiss. “The better you understand the constraints, the more likely it is that you’ll be able to propose options that solve both sides’ problems,” says Malhotra.

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Constraint Travel Advice Career 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 12, 2017

Spreadsheets were developed, resources were marshaled, budgets were approved, and the work began. We were particularly concerned about the timing of the firm’s proposed investments relative to its expectations for results. What you can expect is better results by making sure that your strategy and growth program are aligned.

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