Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

L EADERSHIP development is a lifelong process. All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Companies that fail to invest stagnate and fall behind.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” While most companies explain that they make great products, Apple is unique in that they begin by telling the consumer “ why ” they make their products. We are committed to designing smart marketing strategies – not the flashiest or most complex.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

Finally, it has forced me to think about and clearly articulate answers to the excellent questions that Maddy had developed. If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

As the importance of open and honest leadership continues to dominate the media spotlight, I find myself reflecting on how vital relationships are to building a positive working environment, and how important it is for all managers and leaders to develop this skill. Reserved your spot? Catch up here. You can learn more in FE News.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Simon Sinek challenges what and how thinking. When you are your own company, you’re the source of your own success; make sure the journey is worth it. And because technology now enables work to be a thing you do rather than a place you go, the opportunity to identify and develop unique career pathways is greater than ever!

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

A Choice, Not a Symptom “Confidence is a choice,” wrote marketing savant Seth Godin, “not a symptom.” People flirt with excessive arrogance or insecurity every so often, but rarely let either develop into full blown romance. He is the author of two books published by Simon & Schuster and Wiley in 24 languages and over 50 countries.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

You can talk about building team culture by working together as teams, developing team rituals, going out socially, maybe attending a team-building event. In Leaders Eat Last , Simon Sinek gives another great example of this. Bob Chapman was president of a South Carolina-based manufacturing company. It’s a start.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

To succeed, a leader must learn to balance their relationships, time, strategic efforts and personal development. Not only does it provide tools and resources for those transitioning into a leadership role, it also includes development strategies for management teams who are overseeing the growth of new leaders. Leaders are developed!

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Working with companies, I have realized that presenting organizational strategies as an extension of previously-held pop-culture values gets more understanding, comprehension, attention and support. I developed the concept of integrating Pop Culture Wisdom with management training and business planning over the last 40 years.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior. Develop your power play skills and use them as often as you can. Compromise over the important company issues, but dig in and fight forever over smaller topics that are important for you and your career. They show us how not behave.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2015

What we start out as is different from what we progress into, both for companies and individuals. The Bacharach repertoire expanded, and he developed his signature musical style, along with lyricists such as Hal David. provided lush arrangements for easy listening singers such as Ed Ames, Carly Simon, Sammy Davis Jr.,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

And a quarter of companies, according to the same survey, confess that not one of their new offerings met its profitability goals. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2017

There are countless other examples of family firms that have brought innovations to market. Moreover, many family firms profit from their “family-like” culture and their close relationships with a handful of partners, from suppliers to customers, who can help these firms develop their creative ideas, products, and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? A drug company must incur a large fixed cost to do the basic research, so it has strong incentives to predict what the demand for the drug will be if its research succeeds. Economic theory suggests it can have a significant negative impact.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Even Simon acknowledged that, as computers became more powerful and predictive models more sophisticated, heuristics might lose ground in business. Ergo: heuristics win.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Starting in the late 1980s , academic researchers began to develop sophisticated predictive techniques to answer that question. Even Simon acknowledged that, as computers became more powerful and predictive models more sophisticated, heuristics might lose ground in business. Ergo: heuristics win.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2018

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas. This electronics company had no clear plan for how projects would transition from the small design lab team back into the core business.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. In the 1900s, French mathematician-economist Leon Walras envisioned prices in a market economy being set by an auctioneer (since known as the “Walrasian auctioneer”) conducting continuous auctions for all kinds of commodities.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Bayes is relevant to modern leaders because it can help them develop an approach to uncertainty that is less deterministic and more probabilistic. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. As a female entrepreneur who has built a successful company over the past decade, I forced myself to look even further ahead and determine what might be coming, not just in 2013 but in the next five years or so. As of 2010, only 2.4%

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

On the surface, what the company had done made perfect sense. They enjoyed the company. What happened to AgriCo is a common pitfall for companies trying to engage with their customers: a laser focus on what we call the transactional layer. Another user, Simon, has a question and posts it just to see what happens next.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When individual contributors are tapped to manage large-scale projects, oversee direct reports, or participate in strategic planning, they need to develop new skill sets on the fly — skills such as interpersonal dexterity, emotional agility, and communication savvy. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

A striking feature of today’s fragile world situation is the inability to channel an abundance of cheap financial capital into productive use by companies, economies and states. New business models and value propositions are being developed by global teams using web-based tools and communication methods.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 5, 2011

We just spent the last few weeks criss-crossing India to discover how private sector companies are striving to support India's quest for "inclusive growth.". Inclusive growth has become the economic development mantra for both Indian politicians and CEOs in recent months.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2015

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. But as Netflix and online media channels developed, Blockbuster was no longer unique in fulfilling that purpose, and the way it fulfilled it became anachronistic.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. housing market could collapse and trigger a global financial crisis.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2015

At the top of the News Feed, users located in India saw a company-issued request to promote Internet.org, the company’s controversial global connectivity effort, to their elected leaders. Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Study some of the most interesting and diverse group of companies such as Google, Twinings, Dropbox and even Wimbledon and you end up with fascinating stories, case studies, and research useful to every brand. There’s a tremendous body of management and marketing literature focused on the importance of purpose to organizational success.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2018

What can firms do better than markets? This work is coordinated by a single firm, Amazon, but it often involves third parties (makers of dog food, delivery companies) whose systems interact seamlessly with Amazon’s. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

At least that’s better than the 70% of companies that plainly ignore complaints on Twitter. Yet, despite the urgency of getting it right—and the ample time that companies have had to figure it out—most corporations have an empathy deficit. We analyzed 350,000 tweets across 300 companies. This matters.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2011

Biocon is one Indian company that is adapting well to this new global reality by embracing a polycentric innovation model. Biocon also sources drug molecules from other partners, especially from developing countries, such as the Cuba-based Center of Molecular Immunology (CMI). Transformers. Financiers.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

From Airbnb to Ant Financial, Microsoft to Amazon, research shows how AI-driven processes are vastly more scalable than traditional processes, allow massive scope increase, enabling companies to straddle industry boundaries, and create powerful opportunities for learning--to drive ever more accurate, complex, and sophisticated predictions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken actions to force companies to disclose climate change–related risks. The Trump administration has threatened to roll back those requirements, which would hurt companies, investors, and consumers. Policy makers have recognized as much, and in recent years the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

And the impacts of policies will be highly specific in nature, degree, and speed for each industry and company. To respond to this challenge, companies will need to become more sophisticated about strategy during uncertainty in five ways. Consider whether your company is able to employ each of the following approaches: Classical.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2014

companies to hire cheaper labor abroad, led to a decrease in low-skilled wages, and likewise increased the gaps between the high- and low-skilled workers. How will far-away poor provinces become more developed? Globalization might have, by providing cheaper imports from China and allowing U.S. Which leaves us with economic policy.

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