Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Many of the painters we now celebrate as creative geniuses devoted a significant portion of their careers to copywork. Studying the masters comes with a price: it raises the bar on the performance you deem necessary to be successful. Nearly every example you admire was developed using a blueprint. 4 Don’t Mimic, Evolve. Don’t give up.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

” — Oscar Wilde. “The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.” . “When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves.” ” — Publius Syrus. 7. “The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.” ” — Unknown.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

…And the Clients Went Wild! : And the Clients Went Wild! Perfect your marketing mix and win with …And the Clients Went Wild! So how exactly does a small firm with only 20 employees manage to make millions every year without offering prices much lower than their competitors?

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 10, 2018

If you’re making a big career change, gaining new qualifications or re-training will help to support your new business. While a focus group can't fully represent how your idea will do in the wild, it will at least give you an idea of how it could be received by the public. Get some new qualifications. Do your research.

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Tips Learning-by-Doing Industry Long-term 95

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

In pre-Big Data days, for example, a hotel chain used some pretty sophisticated mathematics, data mining, and time series analysis to coordinate its yield management pricing and promotion efforts. They hadn’t weighted discount hotels into either pricing or room availability. The modeling group had done everything correctly.

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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.”. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Here a few notable examples. Economics and logistics.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

And despite the antisocial implications of the dark triad, recent research has highlighted a wide range of career-related benefits for these personality characteristics. You can certainly turn them into career weapons, but the group will generally lose the more you win.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

But executives can hurt their careers when they care about something too much. So I worked hard to instead steer him to policy-research assignments and, after the campaign ended, he turned that into a career. No one wants a job or a career they hate. What's your recipe for career success? You're too emotionally attached.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2015

After college, I took an unconventional career path. Friends openly wondered if I’d ever get back on the career path after “disappearing” for years. What they—and I, for that matter—didn’t realize then is that I was well on my way along my career path of choice: being an entrepreneur.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields. by contrast, lets old industries die instead of renewing them with new technologies and innovation. As a result, we don’t have healthy cohesive industries; we have isolated silos.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

That''s why they''re painted bright blue, and the company even holds contests for employees who can spot and bring home pallets that were somehow left in the wild. But when innovation of this kind comes to cities, the price of everything goes up, and the poor and middle class are displaced, often without benefiting economically.

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The Idolbuster

JUNE 21, 2012

I didn’t mind that I was no longer working on the most cutting-edge, high profile project, because I could see the price people on that team were paying. It was crazy at home, with two of us in high-powered careers. I had seen them play before, but it was always rambunctious and wild. My life was better. Much better.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Back at the Media Lab, she started working on the Brrrd, and within a year she had found a manufacturer in China and turned her prototype into a commercial product priced at $79.99 She had bounced around from retail to media to tech throughout her career, but she had great instincts and Steph valued her outlook.

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Case Study Retail Learning-by-Doing Education 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Should we lower our prices?” Gans wrote right after the Nobel announcement that he has “a whole shelf … and not a decorative shelf” of such books by Tirole and has relied on them throughout his career. Should we increase production?”. Game-theoretic models of industry did indeed often offer wonderfully explicit advice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Greenspan had a long career as a private economic analyst and forecaster behind him when he was appointed Federal Reserve chairman in 1987. Greenspan asked me to check that, and the actual line from the article was pretty close: “Asked in 2010 about those who warned that housing prices would crash, he responded, ‘Right.

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